CriterionForum Lists Project - 1940s (Version 3.0)
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Every five years or so the film fans at Criterionforum.org spend half a year discussing the films of a certain decade - viewing and reviewing classics, championing favorites, and highlighting overlooked/underrated films. At the end of the discussion period they each submit lists of their fifty favorite films from the decade, and those lists are then compiled into a top 100, as well as a list of "also-rans" (the films which received more than one vote, but not enough to make the top 100.) This list includes both the top 100 and the "also-rans."
These are the results of the poll conducted from August 2011 to February 2012.
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Citizen Kane
1941, in 39 top lists Check -
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Banshun
1949 — a.k.a. Late Spring, in 16 top lists Check -
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The Red Shoes
1948, in 27 top lists Check -
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The Third Man
1949, in 37 top lists Check -
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Ivan Groznyy
1944 — a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, Part I, in 19 top lists Check -
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Ivan Groznyy. Skaz vtoroy: Boyarskiy zagovor
1958 — a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot, in 15 top lists Check -
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Black Narcissus
1947, in 15 top lists Check -
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Casablanca
1942, in 39 top lists Check -
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948, in 15 top lists Check -
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La belle et la bête
1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check -
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Vredens dag
1943 — a.k.a. Day of Wrath, in 13 top lists Check -
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Notorious
1946, in 24 top lists Check -
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Out of the Past
1947, in 16 top lists Check -
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The Lady from Shanghai
1947, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Big Sleep
1946, in 22 top lists Check -
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The Magnificent Ambersons
1942, in 15 top lists Check -
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The Best Years of Our Lives
1946, in 30 top lists Check -
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Ladri di biciclette
1948 — a.k.a. Bicycle Thieves, in 36 top lists Check -
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Rebecca
1940, in 23 top lists Check -
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Shadow of a Doubt
1943, in 15 top lists Check -
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Les enfants du paradis
1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check -
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My Darling Clementine
1946, in 20 top lists Check -
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Brief Encounter
1945, in 22 top lists Check -
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The Lady Eve
1941, in 20 top lists Check -
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Double Indemnity
1944, in 37 top lists Check -
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A Matter of Life and Death
1946, in 23 top lists Check -
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A Canterbury Tale
1944, in 8 top lists Check -
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I Know Where I'm Going!
1945, in 13 top lists Check -
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I Walked with a Zombie
1943, in 10 top lists Check -
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Laura
1944, in 21 top lists Check -
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943, in 16 top lists Check -
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949, in 20 top lists Check -
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His Girl Friday
1940, in 22 top lists Check -
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Meet Me in St. Louis
1944, in 15 top lists Check -
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The Curse of the Cat People
1944, in 1 top list Check -
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Red River
1948, in 16 top lists Check -
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To Be or Not to Be
1942, in 24 top lists Check -
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Germania anno zero
1948 — a.k.a. Germany Year Zero, in 11 top lists Check -
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White Heat
1949, in 15 top lists Check -
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The Palm Beach Story
1942, in 14 top lists Check -
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Force of Evil
1948, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Maltese Falcon
1941, in 27 top lists Check -
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Scarlet Street
1945, in 10 top lists Check -
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Le corbeau
1943 — a.k.a. The Raven, in 9 top lists Check -
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La terra trema
1948 — a.k.a. The Earth Trembles, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948, in 25 top lists Check -
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Meshes of the Afternoon
1943, in 10 top lists Check -
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Sullivan's Travels
1941, in 24 top lists Check -
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Hail the Conquering Hero
1944, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Seventh Victim
1943, in 7 top lists Check
Last updated on Mar 3, 2012; source