Moulin Rouge! at 25

2001

Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! turns 25 this year, and it still deserves its exclamation point. In the intervening years, the movie had fallen off my Top 200 Films list, but it’s back at #38 after tonight’s rewatch. Not only is Moulin Rouge! a perfect movie, but its influence has proven to be impossible to underestimate.

I hope that this anniversary sees t…