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Guardian Unlimited's "Top 50 Adaptations"

These movies are listed in alphabetical order based on the books they’re adapted from
Close Range (inc Brokeback Mountain)
Different Seasons (inc The Shawshank Redemption)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (aka Bladerunner)
Heart of Darkness (aka Apocalypse Now)
A Kestrel for a Knave (aka Kes)
Schindler’s Ark (aka Schindler’s List)

(found at: http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1756383,00.html)
1. Alice in Wonderland (Masterpiece Edition)
by Wilfred Jackson
  
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four
by Michael Radford
  
3. American Psycho (Uncut Killer Collector's Edition)
by Mary Harron
  
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Anniversary Edition)  
5.
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 Brighton Rock
by John Boulting 1947 (UK) 92min
  
6. Catch-22
by Mike Nichols
  
7. A Clockwork Orange
by Stanley Kubrick
  
8. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Tim Burton
  
9. Brokeback Mountain (Full Screen Edition)
by Ang Lee
  
10. Day of the Triffids
by Freddie Francis
  
11. Devil in a Blue Dress
by Carl Franklin
  
12. The Shawshank Redemption (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Frank Darabont
  
13. Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
by Ridley Scott
  
14. Doctor Zhivago (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by David Lean
  
15. Empire of the Sun  
16. The English Patient (Miramax Collector's Edition)
by Anthony Minghella
  
17. Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
by David Fincher
  
18. The French Lieutenant's Woman
by Karel Reisz
  
19. Get Shorty  
20. The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
by Francis Ford Coppola
  
21. Goldfinger (Special Edition)
by Guy Hamilton
  
22. Goodfellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Martin Scorsese
  
23. Apocalypse Now Redux  
24. Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Sidney Lanfield
  
25. Jaws (30th Anniversary Edition)  
26. The Jungle Book (Limited Issue)
by Wolfgang Reitherman
  
27.
?
 Kes
by Ken Loach
  
28. L.A. Confidential
by Curtis Hanson
  
29. Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1959) (Ws Sub)
by Roger Vadim
  
30. Lolita
by Stanley Kubrick
  
31. Lord of the Flies
by Harry Hook
  
32. The Maltese Falcon
by John Huston
  
33. Oliver Twist
by Roman Polanski
  
34. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Milos Forman
  
35. Orlando
by Sally Potter
  
36. The Outsiders - The Complete Novel (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Francis Ford Coppola
  
37. Pride & Prejudice (Widescreen Edition)
by Joe Wright (IV)
  
38. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Ronald Neame
  
39. The Railway Children
by Lionel Jeffries
  
40. Rebecca - Criterion Collection  
41. The Remains of the Day (Special Edition)  
42. Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)
by Steven Spielberg
  
43. Sin City - Unrated (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
by Frank Miller (II)
  
44. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
by Martin Ritt
  
45. The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Anthony Minghella
  
46. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Ian Sharp
  
47. To Kill a Mockingbird (Universal Legacy Series)
by Robert Mulligan
  
48. Trainspotting
by Danny Boyle
  
49. The Vanishing - Criterion Collection
by George Sluizer
  
50. Watership Down
by Martin Rosen
  
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Created by Chuck on Apr 20, 2006.