An Introduction to Film

FURTHER VIEWING 531

The Village Voice:

One Hundred Best Films of the Twentieth Century

The following list was published in the January 4, 2000, issue of The Village Voice, a free weekly newspaper
based in New York City. The list was compiled from the results of a poll administered by the editors of the
Voicein which 50 of the best- known film critics at the time were asked to list their top ten movies of all time.
Individual responses were collated, and the following list of 100 films is the result.

1 1941 Citizen Kane Orson Welles

2 1939 The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir

3 1958 Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock

4 1956 The Searchers John Ford

5 1929 The Man with a Movie Camera Dziga Vertov

6 1927 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans F. W. Murnau

7 1934 L’Atalante Jean Vigo

8 1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc Carl Theodor Dreyer

9 1966 Au hasard Balthazar Robert Bresson

10 1950 Rashomon Akira Kurosawa

11 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick

12 1972 The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola

13 1955 Pather Panchali Satyajit Ray

14 1915 The Birth of a Nation D. W. Griffith

15 1939 The Wizard of Oz Victor Fleming

16 1946 It’s a Wonderful Life Frank Capra

17 1943 Ordet Gustaf Molander

18 1916 Intolerance D. W. Griffith

19 1976 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, Chantal Akerman

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20 1960 Psycho Alfred Hitchcock

21 1974 Chinatown Roman Polanski

22 1931 M Fritz Lang

23 1954 The Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa

24 1953 The Earrings of Madame de... Max Ophüls

25 1942 The Magnificent Ambersons Orson Welles

26 1956 A Man Escaped Robert Bresson

27 1919 Broken Blossoms D. W. Griffith

28 1924 Greed Erich von Stroheim

29 1953 Ugetsu monogatari Kenji Mizoguchi

30 1949 The Third Man Carol Reed

31 1974 The Godfather: Part II Francis Ford Coppola

Rank Year of Release Title Director(s)