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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  1. 1 new

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  2. 67 new

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  3. 8 new

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  4. 63 new

    Fantasia

    1940, in 20 top lists Check
  5. 114 new

    Bambi

    1942, in 13 top lists Check
  6. 55 new

    Pinocchio

    1940, in 15 top lists Check
  7. 79 new

    Dumbo

    1941, in 9 top lists Check
  8. 18 new

    Ladri di biciclette

    1948 — a.k.a. Bicycle Thieves, in 36 top lists Check
  9. 42 new

    The Maltese Falcon

    1941, in 27 top lists Check
  10. 59 new

    The Grapes of Wrath

    1940, in 24 top lists Check
  11. 132 new

    The Great Dictator

    1940, in 25 top lists Check
  12. 4 new

    The Third Man

    1949, in 37 top lists Check
  13. 15 new

    The Big Sleep

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  14. 231 new

    Arsenic and Old Lace

    1944, in 9 top lists Check
  15. 91 new

    The Philadelphia Story

    1940, in 22 top lists Check
  16. 33 new

    His Girl Friday

    1940, in 22 top lists Check
  17. 12 new

    Notorious

    1946, in 24 top lists Check
  18. 34 new

    Meet Me in St. Louis

    1944, in 16 top lists Check
  19. 19 new

    Rebecca

    1940, in 23 top lists Check
  20. 46 new

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    1948, in 25 top lists Check
  21. 25 new

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  22. 47 new

    Meshes of the Afternoon

    1943, in 10 top lists Check
  23. 71 new

    How Green Was My Valley

    1941, in 11 top lists Check
  24. 3 new

    The Red Shoes

    1948, in 27 top lists Check
  25. 170 new

    Rope

    1948, in 10 top lists Check
  26. 23 new

    Brief Encounter

    1945, in 22 top lists Check
  27. 16 new

    The Magnificent Ambersons

    1942, in 15 top lists Check
  28. 17 new

    The Best Years of Our Lives

    1946, in 30 top lists Check
  29. 7 new

    Black Narcissus

    1947, in 15 top lists Check
  30. 212 new

    The Bank Dick

    1940, in 8 top lists Check
  31. 53 new

    Great Expectations

    1946, in 17 top lists Check
  32. 207 new

    Spellbound

    1945, in 7 top lists Check
  33. 24 new

    The Lady Eve

    1941, in 20 top lists Check
  34. 10 new

    La belle et la bête

    1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check
  35. 48 new

    Sullivan's Travels

    1941, in 24 top lists Check
  36. 21 new

    Les enfants du paradis

    1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check
  37. 26 new

    A Matter of Life and Death

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  38. 60 new

    Roma città aperta

    1945 — a.k.a. Rome, Open City, in 23 top lists Check
  39. 20 new

    Shadow of a Doubt

    1943, in 15 top lists Check
  40. 30 new

    Laura

    1944, in 21 top lists Check
  41. 56 new

    Cat People

    1942, in 15 top lists Check
  42. 189 new

    The Lost Weekend

    1945, in 17 top lists Check
  43. 5 new

    Ivan Groznyy

    1944 — a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, Part I, in 19 top lists Check
  44. 31 new

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    1943, in 16 top lists Check
  45. 196 new

    Mrs. Miniver

    1942, in 9 top lists Check
  46. 36 new

    Red River

    1948, in 16 top lists Check
  47. 121 new

    The Thief of Bagdad

    1940, in 13 top lists Check
  48. 6 new

    Ivan Groznyy. Skaz vtoroy: Boyarskiy zagovor

    1958 — a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot, in 15 top lists Check
  49. 22 new

    My Darling Clementine

    1946, in 20 top lists Check
  50. 147 new

    Detour

    1945, in 16 top lists Check
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