The Film-Lover's Check List: Village Voice's 100 Best Films of the 20th Century

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

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1.	Citizen Kane (1941)
2.	The Rules of the Game (1939)
3.	Vertigo (1958)
4.	The Searchers (1956)
5.	Man With the Movie Camera (1929) (Documentary Feature)
6.	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
7.	L'Atalante (1934)
8.	The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
9.	Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
10.	Rashomon (1950)
11.	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
12.	The Godfather (1972)
13.	---> see "The Apu Trilogy"*
14.	The Birth of a Nation (1915)
15.	The Wizard of Oz (1939)
16.	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
17.	Ordet (1955)
18.	Intolerance (1916)
19.	Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
20.	Psycho (1960)
21.	Chinatown (1974)
22.	M (1931)
23.	The Seven Samurai (1954)
24.	The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
25.	The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
26.	A Man Escaped (1956)
27.	Broken Blossoms (1919)
28.	Greed (1924)
29.	Ugetsu (1953)
30.	The Third Man (1949)
31.	The Godfather, Part II (1974)
32.	The General (1927)
33.	The Seventh Seal (1957)
34.	Taxi Driver (1976)
35.	The Night of the Hunter (1955)
36.	Tokyo Story (1953)

37.	The Bicycle Thief (1948)
38.	City Lights (1931)
39.	King Kong (1933)
40.	Metropolis (1927)
41.	My Life To Live (1962)
42.	Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
43.	Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
44.	Duck Soup (1933)
45.	Sunset Boulevard (1950)
46.	Barry Lyndon (1975)
47.	The 400 Blows (1959)
48.	Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
49.	Contempt (1963)
50.	The Gold Rush (1925)
51.	North By Northwest (1959)
52.	Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966) (17m short)
53.	The Rise of Louis Xiv (1966)
54.	---> see "The Apu Trilogy"*
55.	Touch of Evil (1958)
56.	A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
57.	The Lady Eve (1941)
58.	The Conformist (1970)
59.	The Palm Beach Story (1942)
60.	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
61.	Pickpocket (1959)
62.	An Actor's Revenge (1963)
63.	Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
64.	Close-Up (1990)
65.	The Gospel According To St. Matthew (1964)
66.	La Jetee (1962) (28m short)
67.	Modern Times (1936)
68.	October (1928)
69.	Los Olvidados (1950)
70.	Paisan (1946)
71.	Performance (1970)
72.	Shoah (1985) (Documentary Feature)

73.	Singin' In the Rain (1952)
74.	Two Or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
75.	Umberto D (1952)
76.	Les Vampires (1915)
77.	All About Eve (1950)
78.	All That Heaven Allows (1955)
79.	Battleship Potemkin (1925)
80.	Notorious (1946)
81.	Pierrot Le Fou (1965)
82.	Fox and His Friends (1975)
83.	The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
84.	A Trip To the Moon (1902) (12m short)
85.	Wavelength (1967) (Art Documentary Feature)
86.	Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
87.	Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
88.	The Golden Coach (1952)
89.	Salo, Or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
90.	Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
91.	Masculine-Feminine (1966)
92.	Nosferatu (1922)
93.	Star Wars (1977)
94.	Blade Runner (1982)
95.	Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
96.	Jules and Jim (1962)
97.	Landscape In the Mist (1988)
98.	Mean Streets (1973)
99.	Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
100.	Suspiria (1977)

The Apu Trilogy (1955-59)*


13 & 55.	Pather Panchali (1955)
55.	Aparajito (1956)
55.	The World of Apu (1959)

NOTE: New York's 'Village Voice' newspaper held its "First Annual Film Critics' Poll" at the conclusion of the 20th century, with contributions from 50 or more distinguished film critics, including Molly Haskell, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Andrew Sarris and others. One of the film poll categories asked the participants to rank their top ten best films of the century, and the results of that poll were published in the January 4, 2000 edition of The Village Voice.

* = The Apu Trilogy is comprised of three films (as noted above). The entire trilogy (including "Pather Panchali) is included as fim #55, while "Pather Panchali" is also curiously & redundantly included as film #13 as well.