These Go To Eleven: The 10 Best Films Of The Eighties

Join us in our decade-based film retrospective, as we delve backwards all the way from 2009 to 1910. Most decade-based best movie lists grant you a whooping 50-100 entries, which makes perfect sense given all the years you have to take into consideration. But what if you were defining a decade in just ten films? Which movies would you recommend to somebody who might only watch a handful from a given decade? This week, we look back at the Eighties.

T.J. Barnard

Published: Nov 28, 2012 10:52 am

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2. Once Upon A Time In America (1984) (Dir. Sergio Leone)

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Disregarded and underrated for decades, Sergio Leone’s final (and arguably finest) film has only recently emerged as a lost work of classic cinema. Having been subjected to a seemingly endless amount of edits and cuts, Once Upon A Time In America makes the best impression seen in its original version, a version which spans well over three hours. But Leone’s love for cinema is apparent in every frame of this sad, decade-spinning story of failed dreams and lost relationships. A gangster picture, a love story, a picture about the bindings of friendship… Once Upon A Time In America is truly an epic in every sense, a movie that will stick in your mind long after you’ve seen it. Robert De Niro, as usual, delivers a fine performance, but this is Leone’s movie, the Italian master’s melancholic meditation on the American Dream.

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