50 Best Film Adaptations

[Jenjie]

The Guardian, in association with the Book Marketing Group, will publish a supplement in the Film & Music section on May 5 when voting will begin. The winner will be revealed at the Guardian Hay literary festival at the end of May.

 

From words to pictures

 

1984

Alice in Wonderland

American Psycho

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Brighton Rock

Catch 22

Charlie & the Chocolate Factory

A Clockwork Orange

Close Range (inc Brokeback Mountain)

The Day of the Triffids

Devil in a Blue Dress

Different Seasons (inc The Shawshank Redemption)

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (aka Bladerunner)

Doctor Zhivago

Empire of the Sun

The English Patient

Fight Club

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Get Shorty

The Godfather

Goldfinger

Goodfellas

Heart of Darkness (aka Apocalypse Now)

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Jaws

The Jungle Book

A Kestrel for a Knave (aka Kes)

LA Confidential

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Lolita

Lord of the Flies

The Maltese Falcon

Oliver Twist

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Orlando

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)

Sin City

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

The Talented Mr Ripley

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

To Kill a Mockingbird

Trainspotting

The Vanishing

Watership Down

 

Link to the full article explaining the poll is here: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1756384,00.html

 

And there's a discussion page here: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/culturevulture/archives/2006/04/19/adaptation_dramas.html

[evidenceoftruth]

I never knew there was a movie adaptation for "Catch-22" .. when did it come out?

[Jenjie]

1970. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065528/