The Village Voice's "100 Best Films of the 20th Century"

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At the conclusion of the 20th century, the reknowned Village Voice newspaper held its "First Annual Film Critics’ Poll." The newspaper asked 50 or more distinguished film critics, including Molly Haskell, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Andrew Sarris and others, to vote in their film poll. One of the film poll categories asked the participants to rank their top ten best films of the century. The results were compiled from the poll’s voting and published in the January 4, 2000 edition of The Village Voice.

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  1. 1.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles

  2. 3.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  3. 4.
    The Searchers
    by John Ford

  4. 5.
    Man With a Movie Camera
    by Dziga Vertov

  5. 6.
    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
    by F.W. Murnau

  6. 7.
    L' Atalante
    by Jean Vigo

  7. 8.
    The Passion of Joan of Arc (The Criterion Collection)
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

  8. 9.
    Au Hasard Balthazar (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Bresson

  9. 10.
    Rashomon (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  10. 11.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey
    by Stanley Kubrick

  11. 12.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  12. 13.
    Pather Panchali [VHS]
    by Satyajit Ray

  13. 14.
    The Birth of a Nation
    by D.W. Griffith

  14. 15.
    The Wizard of Oz
    by King Vidor

  15. 16.
    It's a Wonderful Life
    by Frank Capra

  16. 17.
    Ordet - Criterion Collection
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

  17. 18.
    Intolerance (1916)
    by D.W. Griffith

  18. 20.
    Psycho (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  19. 21.
    Chinatown
    by Roman Polanski

  20. 22.
    M (The Criterion Collection)
    by Fritz Lang

  21. 24.
    The Earrings of Madame de...
    by Max Ophuls

  22. 25.
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    by Orson Welles

  23. 26.
    A Man Escaped
    by Robert Bresson

  24. 27.
    Broken Blossoms
    by D.W. Griffith

  25. 28.
    Greed [VHS]
    by Erich von Stroheim

  26. 29.
    Ugetsu (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

  27. 30.
    The Third Man (The Criterion Collection)
    by Carol Reed

  28. 31.
    The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  29. 32.
    General (1927)
    by Buster Keaton

  30. 34.
    Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

  31. 35.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton

  32. 36.
    Tokyo Story (The Criterion Collection)
    by YasujirĂ´ Ozu

  33. 37.
    The Bicycle Thief
    by Vittorio De Sica

  34. 38.
    City Lights
    by Charles Chaplin

  35. 39.
    King Kong (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Ernest B. Schoedsack

  36. 40.
    Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
    by Fritz Lang

  37. 41.
    My Life to Live
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  38. 42.
    Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
    by Buster Keaton

  39. 43.
    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    by Werner Herzog

  40. 44.
    Duck Soup
    by Leo McCarey

  41. 45.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

  42. 46.
    Barry Lyndon
    by Stanley Kubrick

  43. 48.
    Steamboat Bill, Jr.
    by Charles Reisner

  44. 49.
    Contempt (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean-Luc Godard

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Comments

I've long liked this list, but — 2 years ago

their insistence on throwing in three or four trashy camp movies toward the end just to try to seem hip strikes me as embarrassing pandering amidst all the other serious choices.

Just my feeling about it— not pronouncing from on high …


Listsource — 6 years ago

It changed and was no longer working. I updated it.


The Godfather Collection is on Here Twice — 6 years ago

  1. and #31, I think.

#85 Wavelength — 7 years ago

Directed by Michael Snow and released in 1967.




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