The Guardian's "Top 50 Adaptations"

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Guardian Unlimited has revealed its list of the 50 best film adaptations of pre-existing books.

  1. 1.
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    1984

  2. 2.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Stanley Kubrick

  3. 3.
    Alice
    by Jan Svankmajer

  4. 4.
    American Psycho (Unrated Version)
    by Mary Harron

  5. 5.
    Apocalypse Now
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  6. 6.
    Breakfast at Tiffany's
    by Blake Edwards

  7. 7.
    Blade Runner
    by Ridley Scott

  8. 8.
    Brighton Rock
    by John Boulting 1947 (UK) 92min

  9. 9.
    Brokeback Mountain
    by Ang Lee

  10. 10.
    Catch-22

  11. 11.
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    by Tim Burton

  12. 12.
    Dangerous Liaisons
    by Stephen Frears

  13. 13.
    Devil in A Blue Dress

  14. 14.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by David Lean

  15. 15.
    Empire of the Sun (Snap Case Packaging)
    by Steven Spielberg

  16. 16.
    Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by David Fincher

  17. 17.
    Get Shorty

  18. 18.
    Goldfinger (Special Edition)
    by Guy Hamilton

  19. 19.
    GoodFellas
    by Martin Scorsese

  20. 20.
    Jaws (Two-Disc 30th Anniversary Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  21. 21.

  22. 22.
    L.A. Confidential (Snap Case)

  23. 23.
    Lolita

  24. 24.
    Lord of the Flies

  25. 25.
    Oliver Twist (1948)
    by David Lean

  26. 26.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Milos Forman

  27. 27.
    Orlando
    by Sally Potter

  28. 29.
    Rebecca (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  29. 30.
    Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  30. 31.
    Sin City

  31. 32.
    Tess (Special Edition)
    by Roman Polanski

  32. 33.
    The Day of the Triffids

  33. 34.
    The English Patient

  34. 35.
    The French Lieutenant's Woman

  35. 36.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  36. 38.
    The Jungle Book (Limited Issue)
    by Wolfgang Reitherman

  37. 39.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston

  38. 40.
    The Outsiders
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  39. 41.
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
    by Ronald Neame

  40. 42.
    The Railway Children

  41. 43.
    The Remains of the Day (Special Edition)
    by James Ivory

  42. 44.
    The Shawshank Redemption
    by Frank Darabont

  43. 45.
    The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
    by Martin Ritt

  44. 46.
    The Talented Mr. Ripley

  45. 47.
    The Vanishing
    by George Sluizer

  46. 48.
    To Kill a Mockingbird (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Robert Mulligan

  47. 49.
    Trainspotting
    by Danny Boyle

  48. 50.
    Watership Down
    by Martin Rosen

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Created by Thaddaeus on Apr 20, 2006.
 

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Untitled — 44 weeks ago

I replaced Lolita with the correct adaptation. It’s incredible that they chose the American remake of The Vanishing and the Burton version of Chocolate Factory.




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