Apocalypse Now has been named the greatest film of the past 25 years by movie experts.
Francis Ford Coppola's movie - based on Joseph Conrad's literary classic Heart of Darkness - was chosen by a panel of 50 British critics and film writers.

The highest ranking British movie was Terence Davies's Distant Voices, Still Lives at number nine in the poll by the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound magazine.

Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull was runner-up in the list while Ingmar Bergman's Fanny And Alexander came third.

Ridley Scott's Blade Runner comes in at number seven.

Only films dating from January 1978 to this year were eligible so Star Wars fell just outside the time limit.

Apocalypse Now features famed scenes such as Martin Sheen's genuinely drunken rampage where he trashes a room.

Other notable sequences include Robert Duvall's famous declaration "I love the smell of napalm in the morning".

Nick James, editor of Sight & Sound, said: "As film history now spans over 100 years it's almost impossible to compile a list of top films.

"Apocalypse Now deserves its position for being a richly complex, madcap experiment in war film-making that comes off because it never falls from the tightrope it walks between extravagance and profundity."


The Top Ten films were:
1. Apocalypse Now;
2. Raging Bull;
3. Fanny and Alexander;
4. GoodFellas;
5. Blue Velvet;
6. Do the Right Thing;
7. Blade Runner;
8. Chungking Express;
9. Distant Voices, Still Lives;
10. Once upon a Time in America & A One and a Two.

Source: Press Release