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
    by Mike Nichols
  11. 11.
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    by Tim Burton
  12. 12.
    Dangerous Liaisons
    by Stephen Frears
  13. 13.
    Devil in A Blue Dress
    by Carl Franklin
  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
    by Stanley Kubrick
  24. 24.
    Lord of the Flies
    by Harry Hook
  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
  29. 29.
    Rebecca (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  30. 30.
    Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg
  31. 31.
    Sin City
    by Robert Rodriguez
  32. 32.
    Tess (Special Edition)
    by Roman Polanski
  33. 33.
    The Day of the Triffids

  34. 34.
    The English Patient

  35. 35.
    The French Lieutenant's Woman

  36. 36.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola
  37. 37.
    Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles
    by Sidney Lanfield
  38. 38.
    The Jungle Book (Limited Issue)
    by Wolfgang Reitherman
  39. 39.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston
  40. 40.
    The Outsiders
    by Francis Ford Coppola
  41. 41.
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
    by Ronald Neame
  42. 42.
    The Railway Children

  43. 43.
    The Remains of the Day (Special Edition)
    by James Ivory
  44. 44.
    The Shawshank Redemption
    by Frank Darabont
  45. 45.
    The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
    by Martin Ritt
  46. 46.
    The Talented Mr. Ripley
    by Anthony Minghella
  47. 47.
    The Vanishing
    by George Sluizer
  48. 48.
    To Kill a Mockingbird (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Robert Mulligan
  49. 49.
    Trainspotting
    by Danny Boyle
  50. 50.
    Watership Down
    by Martin Rosen
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Created by Thaddaeus on Apr 20, 2006.
 

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duggie2

Untitled — 1 year 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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