Ernesto Diezmartínez
Film critic in Letras Libres, teach Cinema Studies in Tec de Monterrey
Mexico
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin |
| Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles |
| NAZARÍN | 1958 | Luis Buñuel |
| Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| La dolce vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini |
| Hermanos Del Hierro | 1961 | Ismael Rodríguez |
| Le Bonheur | 1965 | Agnès Varda |
| The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| The Purple Rose of Cairo | 1985 | Woody Allen |
| Shoah | 1985 | Claude Lanzmann |
Comments
City Lights
Laugh and weep. Weep and laugh.
Citizen Kane
He just wanted to be loved.
NAZARÍN
The pineapple of mercy.
Psycho
In my teens I watched it three times in one day. In the third screening I was laughing.
La dolce vita
The melancholic rhythm of the Roman nights.
Hermanos Del Hierro
Vengeance kills the avenger.
Le Bonheur
A beautiful poisoned apple.
The Godfather
This is America.
The Purple Rose of Cairo
I'm Cecilia.
Shoah
The greatest ethical and aesthetic documentary of the history of cinema.
Further remarks
These ten titles are movies that have spoken to me since I watched them for the first time. That was my emotional criterion. But, as Groucho said: “If you don’t like them… I have others”. And because I am sure that some colleagues are going to choose only Hollywood movies, here is an alternative and chauvinistic Greatest Films of All Time list with exclusively Mexican cinema: El compadre Mendoza (De Fuentes, 1933), Pueblerina (Fernández, 1949), Una familia de tantas (Galindo, 1949), ¡Ay amor… cómo me has puesto! (Martínez Solares, 1951), La noche avanza (Gavaldón, 1952), Dos tipos de cuidado (Rodríguez, 1952), Él (Buñuel, 1953), La fórmula secreta (Gámez, 1965), Cadena perpetua (Ripstein, 1980) and Roma (Cuarón, 2018).