Guido Bonsaver

Professor, Italian Cultural History, Oxford University

Voted in the critics’ poll

Voted for

8½	1963	Federico Fellini
2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	Stanley Kubrick
Bicycle Thieves, The	1948	Vittorio de Sica
Citizen Kane	1941	Orson Welles
dolce vita, La	1960	Federico Fellini
Godfather: Part I, The	1972	Francis Ford Coppola
grande illusion, La	1937	Jean Renoir
Pulp Fiction	1994	Quentin Tarantino
Throne of Blood	1957	Akira Kurosawa
Trainspotting	1995	Danny Boyle

Comments

When asked what is a ‘classic’, novelist Italo Calvino replied: “It’s a book that, once you’ve finished it, has changed your life, or, better, has changed something in the way you look at life, at your life, at life around you.” The same should be said for films. So here are ten classics (I could easily add another ten) that, somehow, changed the way I see life and the way I see films.