Michael Hanscom did it, and even Jason Kottke linked to him – so I might as well be a follower. Besides, I’m sure most of my friends will love going through this list: the 50 best film adaptations of all time
Movies I’ve seen are marked with and M, and books I’ve read are marked with a B – just in case you couldn’t figure that out. After going through it you can also go leave a comment on kottke and complain about the lack of love for Tolkien along with all the other geeks 😛
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[B] 1984
[BM] Alice in Wonderland
[M] American Psycho
[M] Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Brighton Rock
[BM] Catch 22
[M] Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
[M] A Clockwork Orange I read half the book and never finished it
Close Range (inc Brokeback Mountain)
The Day of the Triffids
Devil in a Blue Dress
[M] Different Seasons (inc The Shawshank Redemption)
[BM] Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (aka Bladerunner) all you PKD lovers can scream and yell all you like, but I think the movie is far superior
Doctor Zhivago
[M] Empire of the Sun
The English Patient
[BM] Fight Club
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
[M] Get Shorty
[M] The Godfather
Goldfinger
[M] Goodfellas
[M] Heart of Darkness (aka Apocalypse Now)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
[M] Jaws
[M] The Jungle Book
A Kestrel for a Knave (aka Kes)
[M] LA Confidential
Les Liaisons Dangereuses well, I’ve seen two versions of it, but not the “truest” adaptation
Lolita
[BM] Lord of the Flies
[M] The Maltese Falcon
Oliver Twist
[M] One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
[M] Orlando
[M] The Outsiders
Pride and Prejudice
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Railway Children
Rebecca
The Remains of the Day
Schindler’s Ark (aka Schindler’s List)
[M] Sin City I recently started reading the first book – must get back into it
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
[M] The Talented Mr Ripley
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
[B] To Kill a Mockingbird
[BM] Trainspotting
The Vanishing
[BM] Watership Down
I’ve both read and seen 7 of them, with another couple in the works – better than I would have expected.