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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Bambi
1942, in 13 top lists Check -
55 new
Pinocchio
1940, in 15 top lists Check -
8 new
Casablanca
1942, in 39 top lists Check -
63 new
Fantasia
1940, in 20 top lists Check -
79 new
Dumbo
1941, in 9 top lists Check -
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Citizen Kane
1941, in 39 top lists Check -
67 new
It's a Wonderful Life
1946, in 33 top lists Check -
132 new
The Great Dictator
1940, in 25 top lists Check -
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The Maltese Falcon
1941, in 27 top lists Check -
4 new
The Third Man
1949, in 37 top lists Check -
18 new
Ladri di biciclette
1948 — a.k.a. Bicycle Thieves, in 36 top lists Check -
25 new
Double Indemnity
1944, in 37 top lists Check -
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Rope
1948, in 10 top lists Check -
19 new
Rebecca
1940, in 23 top lists Check -
59 new
The Grapes of Wrath
1940, in 24 top lists Check -
12 new
Notorious
1946, in 24 top lists Check -
46 new
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948, in 25 top lists Check -
15 new
The Big Sleep
1946, in 22 top lists Check -
91 new
The Philadelphia Story
1940, in 22 top lists Check -
33 new
His Girl Friday
1940, in 22 top lists Check -
231 new
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944, in 9 top lists Check -
20 new
Shadow of a Doubt
1943, in 15 top lists Check -
3 new
The Red Shoes
1948, in 27 top lists Check -
10 new
La belle et la bête
1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check -
23 new
Brief Encounter
1945, in 22 top lists Check -
17 new
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946, in 30 top lists Check -
30 new
Laura
1944, in 21 top lists Check -
53 new
Great Expectations
1946, in 17 top lists Check -
48 new
Sullivan's Travels
1941, in 24 top lists Check -
34 new
Meet Me in St. Louis
1944, in 16 top lists Check -
207 new
Spellbound
1945, in 7 top lists Check -
32 new
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949, in 21 top lists Check -
37 new
To Be or Not to Be
1942, in 24 top lists Check -
189 new
The Lost Weekend
1945, in 17 top lists Check -
56 new
Cat People
1942, in 15 top lists Check -
60 new
Roma città aperta
1945 — a.k.a. Rome, Open City, in 23 top lists Check -
7 new
Black Narcissus
1947, in 15 top lists Check -
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Gilda
1946, in 13 top lists Check -
39 new
White Heat
1949, in 15 top lists Check -
14 new
The Lady from Shanghai
1947, in 9 top lists Check -
13 new
Out of the Past
1947, in 16 top lists Check -
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The Shop Around the Corner
1940, in 14 top lists Check -
24 new
The Lady Eve
1941, in 20 top lists Check -
65 new
To Have and Have Not
1944, in 16 top lists Check -
104 new
Mildred Pierce
1945, in 17 top lists Check -
22 new
My Darling Clementine
1946, in 20 top lists Check -
16 new
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942, in 15 top lists Check -
136 new
Key Largo
1948, in 7 top lists Check -
47 new
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943, in 10 top lists Check -
26 new
A Matter of Life and Death
1946, in 22 top lists Check
Last updated on Mar 3, 2012; source