Kenneth Turan

Film critic, Los Angeles Times

Voted in the critics’ poll

Voted for

Bicycle Thieves, The	1948	Vittorio de Sica
Citizen Kane	1941	Orson Welles
Dekalog		Krzysztof Kieslowski
enfants du paradis, Les	1945	Marcel Carné
Godfather: Part I, The	1972	Francis Ford Coppola
Madame de…	1953	Max Ophüls
Seven Samurai	1954	Akira Kurosawa
Sherlock Jr	1924	Buster Keaton
Third Man, The	1949	Carol Reed
Vertigo	1958	Alfred Hitchcock

Comments

A list like this is inevitably a kind of personal Rorschach test, an in-the-moment snapshot of what I believe to be significant on multiple levels. I’ve tried to find films that have both meant a lot to film history and to me personally, films that have nourished both the artform and the soul. It’s not the same list I submitted ten years ago, but then I’m not the same person.