Carlos Bonfil
Carlos Bonfil
Critic, La Jornada
Mexico
Voted in the critics poll
Mexico
Voted in the critics poll
Voted for:
| 8½ | 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.