Lists of Bests: The Guardian's "Top 50 Adaptations"

Send to Printer The Guardian's "Top 50 Adaptations" Guardian Unlimited has revealed its list of the 50 best film adaptations of pre-existing books. (found at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/apr/19/film.books)
	1.	?	1984
	2.		A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick
	3.		Alice by Jan Svankmajer
	4.		American Psycho (Unrated Version) by Mary Harron
	5.		Apocalypse Now
	6.		Breakfast at Tiffany's by Blake Edwards
	7.		Blade Runner by Ridley Scott
	8.	?	Brighton Rock by John Boulting 1947 (UK) 92min
	9.		Brokeback Mountain by Ang Lee
	10.		Catch-22 by Mike Nichols
	11.		Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Tim Burton
	12.		Dangerous Liaisons by Stephen Frears
	13.		Devil in a Blue Dress by Carl Franklin
	14.		Doctor Zhivago by David Lean
	15.		Empire of the Sun
	16.		Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) by David Fincher
	17.		Get Shorty
	18.		Goldfinger by Guy Hamilton
	19.		GoodFellas by Martin Scorsese
	20.		Jaws (30th Anniversary Edition)
	21.		Kes by Ken Loach
	22.		L.A. Confidential by Curtis Hanson
	23.		Lolita by Adrian Lyne
	24.		Lord of the Flies by Harry Hook
	25.		Oliver Twist by David Lean
	26.		One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Milos Forman
	27.		Orlando by Sally Potter
	28.		Pride and Prejudice (Special Edition) by Simon Langton
	29.		Rebecca - Criterion Collection
	30.		Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition) by Steven Spielberg
	31.		Sin City
	32.		Tess (Special Edition) by Roman Polanski
	33.		Day of the Triffids by Freddie Francis
	34.		The English Patient by Anthony Minghella
	35.		The French Lieutenant's Woman by Karel Reisz
	36.		The Godfather (Widescreen Edition) by Francis Ford Coppola
	37.		Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sidney Lanfield
	38.		The Jungle Book (Limited Issue) by Wolfgang Reitherman
	39.		The Maltese Falcon by John Huston
	40.		The Outsiders by Francis Ford Coppola
	41.		The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Ronald Neame
	42.		The Railway Children by Lionel Jeffries
	43.		The Remains of the Day (Special Edition)
	44.		The Shawshank Redemption by Frank Darabont
	45.		The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by Martin Ritt
	46.		The Talented Mr. Ripley by Anthony Minghella
	47.		The Vanishing by George Sluizer
	48.		To Kill a Mockingbird (Universal Legacy Series) by Robert Mulligan
	49.		Trainspotting by Danny Boyle
	50.		Watership Down by Martin Rosen
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