Best films of Last 30 years.

Though the online poll results for the Top 10 films in the last 30 years by the London Film Critics Circle is 48 hours old, the top contenders is an exciting compilation.

Its easy to find one or more of your top personal favorites in this great list, which is seldom when it comes to ‘critical tastes’, if you know what I mean. It is also the very reason why this makes it all the more exciting.

No, we won’t disclose the best till the last (for those who donot know it by now), but we hope to reach there slowly but surely.

Shall we?

10. The King of Comedy (1983).

Directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis, The King of Comedy must be Scorsese’s most under-rated movie. Filmed after the intense and emotionally draining Raging Bull, de Niro wanted a comedy to follow Raging Bull as their next collaboration. Loaded with black humor, slipping in and out of fantasy, this was an impressive and extraordinarily brave movie that was part melancholic, part extreme but undoubtedly another ‘complete’ masterpiece from the Master.

Watch the trailer of The King of Comedy here.

9.Distant Voices, Still Lives (1989)

Described by The Guardian as ‘Britain’s forgotten cinematic masterpiece”, it is essentially two stories, that describe the life and the coming of age of a generation that embraced the Beatles and its independence. Directed by Terrence Davies, music was what held the movie together, conveying the passage of time, the death of moods and the basis of the movie’s beautiful structure and pace. One of the best movies to come out of Great Britain.

Watch the trailer of Distant Voices, Still Lives here.

8. Fargo (1996).

The Coen Brothers’ neo-noir and visually stark movie of a staged kidnapping that goes horribly wrong, Fargo as a crime thriller is probably Joel Cohen’s finest till now. Frances McDormand who plays Marge Gunderson –the local police chief,also won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1996 for her role.

Watch the trailer of the classic here.

7. LA Confidential (1997).

Directed by Curtis Hanson, based on James Ellroy’s book, was “cynical and twisted,seductive and beautiful” tale about the LAPD set in the 1950’s.If you have not yet watched LA Confidential, please make sure you watch it. Period.

Watch the classic trailer here.

6.Cinema Paradiso (1990)

Originally shot in Italian,dircted by Giuseppe Tornatore, the International version won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1989, and was instrumental in reviving the Italian film industry. It has all the ingredients of a poignant classic and more so when told with a lot of passion and honesty.

Watch the trailer of Cinema Paradiso, the new version  here.

5. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
The controversial politically incorrect classic from Ang Lee, the depiction of love and sex between two adult men in the American West was also the winner of 3 Academy Awards and the Golden Lion Award at Venice Festival, and the most honored film of 2005.

Watch the trailer of the Classic here.

4. Unforgiven (1992).

Produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven is a Western that is so unlike what you expect from that genre. The story of the ageing,retired gunslinger went on to win four Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Hackman), Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Picture.Unforgiven is an astonishing movie that ought to be in your collection if you love movies.

Watch the Unforgiven trailer here.

3. The Lives of Others ( 2007).

The feature film debut of writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, in German, this defiant cultural stance against the statzi of East Germany is hardhitting, on account of its incisive acting and the color palette that grows on you like a disturbing melody.Individuals burdened by the oppression of free will never came together in a drama as fine as this. A masterpiece!

Watch the Original German trailer here.

2.SCHINDLER’S LIST (1994).
Needs no introduction, no endorsement and no vindication. It must have been only a matter of technicality why it stayed second, that’s what we think. Directed by Steven Spielberg based on the novel Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally, it is Spielberg’s most outstanding achievement till date, without a doubt.

Watch the trailer of the masterpiece here.

1.    Apocalypse Now ( 1979).

Produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script by Coppola and John Milius, this war epic about the “heart of an immense darkness”  was the most terrifying psychological horror story set amidst war ever filmed for humanity. Truly, the best film of the last three decades.

Watch the trailer of the best film in the last 3 decades here.