Tudor Caranfil
Tudor Caranfil was a Romanian film critic. He was the father of film director Nae Caranfil.Biography
He attended V. Alecsandri College in Galati and last year, as well as a bachelor's degree at the Mihai Viteazu High School in Bucharest. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in 1957 to later publish journalism at Bucharest Information. Beginning in the 1960s, he devoted himself to film criticism. From 1962, he created "The friends of the friends of the night", the first form of the Romanian cinematheque.
He had been invited to the Cannes Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival and was a member of the FIPRESCI jury. He participated in many other international film festivals in Karlovy Vary, Los Angeles, Locarno, Cottbus, Rotterdam, San Francisco, and major Romanian film festivals.
He won the film critic's award from the Romanian Film Association in 1988 for the volume "In Search of the Lost Film".Published volumes
- Din luptele studentimii democrate, București, Editura Tineretului,
- 7 capodopere ale filmului mut,
- F. W. Murnau,
- Contribuții la istoria cinematografiei în România – volum sub redacția lui Ion Cantacuzino,
- Romanul unui film: "Cetățeanul Kane",
- Vîrstele peliculei, vol. 1 ,
- Vîrstele peliculei, vol. 2,
- În căutarea filmului pierdut sau trei "romane" cinematografice,
- Vîrstele peliculei, vol. 3 ,
- Vârstele peliculei, vol. 4 ,
- Dicționar de filme românești,
- Dicționar universal de filme,.
- Pe aripile vântului,
- Istoria cinematografiei în capodopere: De la "Cântărețul de jazz" la "Luminile orașului , Editura Polirom, 2010
- Dicționar subiectiv al realizatorilor filmului românesc'', Editura Polirom, 2013
