The Village Voice 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
    by Orson Welles

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  2. 2.
    The Rules of the Game - Criterion Collection
    by Jean Renoir

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  3. 3.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)

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  4. 4.
    The Searchers
    by John Ford

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    Man with a Movie Camera
    by Dziga Vertov

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

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  7. 7.
    L' Atalante
    by Jean Vigo

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  8. 8.
    The Passion of Joan of Arc - Criterion Collection
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

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    Au Hasard Balthazar
    by Robert Bresson

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  10. 10.
    Rashomon - Criterion Collection

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

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

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  13. 13.
    Pather Panchali
    by Satyajit Ray

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  14. 14.
    The Birth of a Nation

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  15. 15.
    The Wizard of Oz
    by Victor Fleming

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

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

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  18. 18.
    Intolerance (1916) (Silent) (B&W)
    by D.W. Griffith

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  19. 19.
    Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
    by Chantal Akerman

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  20. 20.
    Psycho (Collector's Edition)

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  21. 21.
    Chinatown

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  22. 22.
    M - Criterion Collection
    by Fritz Lang

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  23. 23.
    Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  24. 24.
    The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
    by Max Ophüls

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  25. 25.
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    by Orson Welles

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    A Man Escaped
    by Robert Bresson

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

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  29. 29.
    Ugetsu
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

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  30. 31.
    The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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    The General
    by Clyde Bruckman

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  32. 33.
    The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection
    by Ingmar Bergman

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  33. 34.
    Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)

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  34. 35.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton

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  35. 36.
    Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection
    by Yasujiro Ozu

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  36. 37.
    The Bicycle Thief
    by Vittorio De Sica

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  37. 38.
    City Lights

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  38. 39.
    King Kong (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Ernest B. Schoedsack

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  39. 40.
    Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
    by Fritz Lang

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    My Life to Live

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  41. 42.
    Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
    by Buster Keaton

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  42. 43.
    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    by Werner Herzog

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  43. 44.
    Duck Soup
    by Leo McCarey

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  44. 45.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

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  45. 46.
    Barry Lyndon
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  47. 48.
    Steamboat Bill, Jr.
    by Charles Reisner

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  48. 49.
    Contempt - Criterion Collection

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  49. 50.
    The Gold Rush

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Comments

Perlle
East Hampton

Listsource — 1 year ago

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


krissness
Arlington

The Godfather Collection is on Here Twice — 2 years ago

12 and #31, I think.


penguinmdh
Pittsburgh

#85 Wavelength — 2 years ago

Directed by Michael Snow and released in 1967.