Friday, November 15, 2013

10 Favorite Movie Adaptations

The Guardian has been doling out a lot of Top Ten lists lately, including today's Top Ten Movie Adaptations. Interesting and eclectic list, and not a single film on it would have made my own list of adaptations.

Oh, by the way, here's my own. Off the top of my head, and in no particular order:


Ethel Lina White's 1936 novel becomes ... 
Alfred Hitchcock's perfect 1938 film The Lady Vanishes

The 1974 novel becomes ...

a small 1975 indie by the same name
Leonard's 1992 novel becomes ... 
Tarantino's 1997 Jackie Brown

The 1943 novel becomes ...
Billy Wilder's 1944 film
This 1960 novel becomes ...
the 1962 film
Ira Levin's 1967 novel becomes ... 
the 1968 film directed by Roman Polanski
King's first novel, 1974's Carrie, becomes ... 
Brian DePalma's 1976 film

Patricia Highsmith's 1950 novel becomes ...
Hitchcock's 1951 film
McMurtry's 1966 novel becomes ...
Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 film

Henry James' 1880 novel becomes ...
William Wyler's 1949 film