Carlos Bonfil

Carlos Bonfil

Critic, La Jornada
Mexico
Voted in the critics poll

Voted for:

1963 Federico Fellini
Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles
Cries and Whispers 1957 Ingmar Bergman
Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder
enfants du paradis, Les 1945 Marcel Carné
mépris, Le 1963 Jean-Luc Godard
olvidados, Los 1950 Luis Buñuel
Passion of Joan of Arc 1927 Carl Theodor Dreyer
Singin' in the Rain 1951 Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly
Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder

Comments

The criteria for selecting these films have been entirely subjective. Although I recognise the technical and artistic quality of such works, and the way many other titles may have equally, if not more decisively, contributed to the enhancement of filmmaking as an art, my choice is closely related to the way these movies have been crucial to my education as a cinephile and to my 22 years of work as a film critic.