* Critics: Village Voice – 100 Best Films of the 20th Century
The Village Voice newspaper asked over 50 distinguished film critics to select their TEN best films of the 20th Century and the results were published in the January 4, 2000 edition of the paper. Here is how they ranked the movies, filtered for movies released through 1960:
- Citizen Kane
- The Rules of the Game
- Vertigo
- The Searchers
- The Man With a Movie Camera
- Sunrise
- L’Atalante
- The Passion of Joan of Arc
- Rashomon
- Pather Panchali
That was their TOP TEN of movies released through 1960. The rest of the movies in their list follow:
- The Birth of a Nation
- The Wizard of Oz
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- Ordet
- Intolerance
- Psycho
- M
- Seven Samurai
- The Earrings of Madame de…
- The Magnificent Ambersons
- A Man Escaped
- Broken Blossoms
- Greed
- Ugetsu
- The Third Man
- The General
- The Seventh Seal
- The Night of the Hunter
- Tokyo Story
- The Bicycle Thief
- City Lights
- King Kong
- Metropolis
- Sherlock Jr.
- Duck Soup
- Sunset Boulevard
- The 400 Blows
- Steamboat Bill, Jr
- The Gold Rush
- North by Northwest
- The Apu Trilogy
- Touch of Evil
- The Lady Eve
- The Palm Beach Story
- Pickpocket
- Modern Times
- October (1928)
- Los Olvidados
- Paisan
- Singin’ in the Rain
- Umberto D
- Les Vampires
- All About Eve
- All That Heaven Allows
- Battleship Potemkin
- Notorious
- A Trip to the Moon
- Ashes and Diamonds
- The Golden Coach
- Nosferatu
- Bride of Frankenstein
- Shadow of a Doubt
The full list is online here: Village Voice Critics’ Poll – 100 Best Films of the 20th Century
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