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UK Film Critics Top 10 Films of the Last 25 Years

post #1 of 17
11/10/02 at 1:42pm
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1. Apocalypse Now (Francie 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. Once Upon A Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1983)
10. Yi yi (A One and a Two) (Edward Yang, 1999)

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post #2 of 17
11/10/02 at 1:49pm
I don't know about the other picks, but I wouldn't even put Apocolypse Now at number one in the top ten over-fuckin-rated films of the past twenty-five years.
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post #3 of 17
11/10/02 at 2:42pm
Out of all of those, Blade Runner and Apocalypse Now, and Goodfellas are the only ones that I'd really agree with.
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post #4 of 17
11/10/02 at 3:37pm
The Leone pick is the only one I'd agree with. Possibly Blue Velvet.
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post #5 of 17
11/10/02 at 5:12pm
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Poxy Extended 10. Yi yi (A One and a Two) (Edward Yang, 1999)
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Wouldn't be in my top ten but I do love this film!
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post #6 of 17
11/10/02 at 5:18pm
Bizarrely, I've just been talking to someone at the BFI (British Film Institute) about this poll. It's not actually UK film critics, it's a poll taken from the readers of Sight & Sound - the most pretentious film magazine in the UK. Possibly the entire world.

It's a magazine that burrows for subtext and semiotic deconstructionism in even the most shallow blockbuster (they said The Lost World was Spielberg's metaphor for the Vietnam war) so I'm not surprised at the high number of unwatchable arty mumbo-jumbo in there.
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post #7 of 17
11/10/02 at 5:43pm
I love Sight & Sound.
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post #8 of 17
11/10/02 at 5:46pm
But it is pretentious, right? Gloriously so, but deeply pretentious.
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post #9 of 17
11/10/02 at 5:53pm
Deeply so. That is why I love it. Crackpot therioes are the best.

Plus they give away the whole movie from start to end in their reviews, so if I don't want to see a flick in theaters I can still talk like I saw it.
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post #10 of 17
11/10/02 at 6:04pm
I'd say Robin Wood's rag Cineaction is the most pretentious, followed by Cineaste'
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post #11 of 17
11/10/02 at 6:09pm
I must really like pretentious stuff, because I also love Cineaste.

Film Quarterly is pretty up there in the pretentious scale too, but I do love them.
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post #12 of 17
11/10/02 at 6:55pm
Motherfuckin' NASHVILLE isn't on there and neither is CHINATOWN. Therfore, it is ass.
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post #13 of 17
11/10/02 at 6:57pm
No JAWS 3-D, either...
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post #14 of 17
11/10/02 at 8:37pm
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RathBandu's Your Mutineer:
Motherfuckin' NASHVILLE isn't on there and neither is CHINATOWN. Therfore, it is ass.
Considering that both of those films predate the period covered by the poll (1977-2002), that seems like a strange criterion to judge it by...
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post #15 of 17
11/10/02 at 8:39pm
Yeah Rath, pay attention... at least JAWS 3-D is 1983...
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post #16 of 17
11/10/02 at 8:42pm
Okay. I'm an idiot.

SCHINDLER'S LIST and L.A. CONFIDENTIAL are not on this list, therefore, it is ass.
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post #17 of 17
11/11/02 at 8:32pm
if this is the UK, i'm suprised that there isn't a baywatch movie on there.
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