The One-Line Review Presents “The 50 Greatest Films”

A 2009 poll of film-makers, critics, bloggers, historians, and other assorted cinephiles by The One-Line Review blogging site to find the greatest films. Below is the top 50.

1. Citizen Kane (1941) .. Orson Welles
2. Vertigo (1958) .. Alfred Hitchcock
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) .. Stanley Kubrick
4. The Godfather (1972) .. Francis Ford Coppola
5. Casablanca (1942) .. Michael Curtiz
6. The Third Man (1949) .. Carol Reed
7. Taxi Driver (1976) .. Martin Scorsese
8. Seven Samurai (1954) .. Akira Kurosawa
9. Psycho (1960) .. Alfred Hitchcock
10. Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) .. Stanley Kubrick
11. The Godfather: Part II (1974) .. Francis Ford Coppola
12. The Searchers (1956) .. John Ford
13. Rear Window (1954) .. Alfred Hitchcock
14. Singin’ in the Rain (1952) .. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
15. Persona (1966) .. Ingmar Bergman
16. Chinatown (1974) .. Roman Polanski
17. Sunset Boulevard (1950) .. Billy Wilder
18. Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau
19. Tokyo Story (1953) .. Yasujiro Ozu
20. Pulp Fiction (1994) .. Quentin Tarantino
21. La Règle du Jeu (1939) .. Jean Renoir
22. 8½ (1963) .. Federico Fellini
23. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) .. David Lean
24. The Night of the Hunter (1955) .. Charles Laughton
25. Apocalypse Now (1979) .. Francis Ford Coppola
26. City Lights (1931) .. Charles Chaplin
27. Bicycle Thieves (1948) .. Vittorio De Sica
28. Annie Hall (1977) .. Woody Allen
29. Touch of Evil (1958) .. Orson Welles
30. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer
31. Blade Runner (1982) .. Ridley Scott
32. M (1931) .. Fritz Lang
33. The General (1927) .. Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton
34. Some Like It Hot (1959) .. Billy Wilder
35. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) .. Sergio Leone
36. The Four Hundred Blows (1959) .. Franτois Truffaut
37. Duck Soup (1933) .. Leo McCarey
38. Double Indemnity (1944) .. Billy Wilder
39. Raging Bull (1980) .. Martin Scorsese
40. All About Eve (1950) .. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
41. A Clockwork Orange (1971) .. Stanley Kubrick
42. The Apartment (1960) .. Billy Wilder
43. La Grande Illusion (1937) .. Jean Renoir
44. Ikiru (1952) .. Akira Kurosawa
45. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) .. Frank Capra
46. Rashomon (1950) .. Akira Kurosawa
47. The Wizard of Oz (1939) .. Victor Fleming
48. Do the Right Thing (1989) .. Spike Lee
49. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) .. Sergio Leone
50. L’Avventura (1960) .. Michelangelo Antonioni