The BEST Film In the Last 25 Years Is…
…Francis Ford Coppola’s anti-Vietnam War classic “Apocalypse Now.” At least, that’s the word from a survey of 50 British film critics and writers conducted by the British Film Institute’s Sight & Sound magazine that ranked the top films of the past 25 years. Films dating from 1978 to 2002 were eligible.
The top 10 films:
1. “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
2. “Raging Bull” (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
3. “Fanny and Alexander” (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
4. “GoodFellas” (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
5. “Blue Velvet” (David Lynch, 1986)
6. “Do the Right Thing” (Spike Lee, 1989)
7. “Blade Runner” (Ridley Scott, 1982)
8. “Chungking Express” (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)
9. “Distant Voices, Still Lives” (Terence Davies, 1988)
10. (tie) “Once Upon a Time in America” (Sergio Leone, 1983)
10. (tie) “Yi yi (A One and a Two … ) (Edward Yang, 1999)
… hmmm….. not saying that I agree with a lot of those…