50 Best Literary Insults
As a nipper growing up our dear old Mum would beseech of us many things: Always wash behind your ears; Never eat…
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Never let it be said that the people in the film industry aren’t a rum bunch: rather than think of their own films to bring to the silver screen (does anybody still call it that?), they just let authors pen their finely crafted words and stories and then turn those into motion pictures (does anybody still call it that?). Like we said, a rum bunch.
Thankfully, not every book they adapt is Bridget Jones’s Diary, as this list of 40 of the best film adaptations demonstrates.
Some remain faithful to the writer’s original book; some take the source material into previously unimagined areas. All, however, are utterly brilliant.
Film: 1946 Director: David Lean There have been untold… More details
Film: 1993 Director: Martin Scorsese In what remains his… More details
Film: 1962 Director: Robert Mulligan If Harper Lee’s… More details
Film: 1965 Director: David Lean The tumultuous years… More details
Film: 1972 Director: Francis Ford Coppola Mario Puzo… More details
Film: 2000 Director: Mary Harron Ellis’s novel skewers… More details
Film: 1991 Director: Jonathan Demme That The Silence of the… More details
Film: 1946 Director: Howard Hawks Hawks’s superb version… More details
Film: 1969 Director: Ronald Neame Muriel Spark’s… More details
Film: 1939 Director: William Wyler Laurence Olivier – the… More details
Film: 1956 Director: John Huston Long considered one of the… More details
Film: 1947 Director: John Boulting Recently remade with Sam… More details
Film: 1996 Director: Danny Boyle Staying faithful to Irvine… More details
Film: 1979 Director: Francis Ford Coppola Coppola’s… More details
Film: 1987 Director: Steven Spielberg Although it didn’t… More details
Film: 1935 Director: Alfred Hitchcock There have been four… More details
Film: 1930 Director: Lewis Milestone Routinely referred to… More details
Film: 2007 Director: The Coen brothers Like Dickens before… More details
Film: 1993 Director: James Ivory James Ivory might move… More details
Film: 1990 Director: Martin Scorsese Wiseguy by journalist… More details
Film: 1962 Director: Stanley Kubrick One of the posters for… More details
Film: 1999 Director: David Fincher Critics often attack… More details
Film: 2011 Director: Tomas Alfredson When shown on… More details
Film: 1997 Director: Curtis Hanson LA Confidential was the… More details
Film: 1980 Director: Stanley Kubrick It’s well known that… More details
Film: 1975 Director: Miloš Forman Before The Silence of… More details
Film: 1941 Director: John Huston By the time first-time… More details
Film: 2000 Director: Darren Aronfsky Both Selby, Jr’s… More details
Film: 1997 Director: Quentin Tarantino Elmore Leonard and… More details
Film: 1939 Director: David O. Selznick In truth it would… More details
Film: 2009 Director: Niels Arden Oplev An unsettling film… More details
Film: 2010 Director: The Coen brothers The first adaptation… More details
Film: 2005 Director: Ang Lee When her 1997 short story was… More details
Film: 1995 Director: Chris Noonan Dick King-Smith’s… More details
Film: 1986 Director: Rob Reiner This archetypal… More details
Film: 1995 Director: Ang Lee Sense & Sensibility was… More details
Film: 1969 Director: Ken Loach Barry Hines’s brutal yet… More details
Film: 1982 Director: Ridley Scott Blade Runner is loosely… More details
Film: 1973 Director: Nicolas Roeg Daphne du Maurier said… More details
Film: 2012 Director: David O. Russell A critical and… More details
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