Lucy Virgen

Mexican film critic, programmer and journalist; founding editor, The Thinking Eye; ex-artistic director, Guadalajara Film Festival

Mexico

Voted in the critics’ poll

Voted for

2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	Stanley Kubrick
Amarcord	1972	Federico Fellini
Battleship Potemkin	1925	Sergei M Eisenstein
Double Life of Veronique, The	1991	Krzysztof Kieslowski
Godfather: Part II, The	1974	Francis Ford Coppola
Raging Bull	1980	Martin Scorsese
Tokyo Story	1953	Ozu Yasujirô
Tree of Life, The	2010	Terrence Malick
Vertigo	1958	Alfred Hitchcock
Viridiana	1961	Luis Buñuel

Comments

Each and every one of these films changed the way that we watch movies, be it because of their technique, their themes or their treatment of a genre. They also represent a departure, began trends and embody many other films: the Double Life of Veronique, for instance, represents not just the whole Kieslowsky’s Dekalog and the Three Colours Trilogy but also all of Eastern Europe Cinema. All of these films are framed in a specific place and time yet are universal and timeless. Tokyo Story could be Mexico City Story, while Viridiana could take place in any location where religion is deeply rooted in everyday life.