Οι 40 καλύτερες μεταφορές μυθιστορημάτων στον κινηματογράφο

 

 Η σειρά δεν είναι αξιολογική (Πηγή: 40 Best Film Adaptations)

1. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens-1861) - David Lynn-1946

2.The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton-1920) - Martin Scorsese - 1993

3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee-1960) - Robert Mulligan - 1962

 4. Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak-1957) - David Lean - 1965

5. The Godfather (Mario Puzo-1969) - Francis Ford Coppola- 1972

6. American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis-1991) - Mary Harron- 2000

7. The Silence of the Lambs (Thomas Harris-1981) - Jonathan Demme - 1991

8. The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler-1939) - Howard Hawks - 1946

9. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark-1961) - Ronald Neame - 1969

10. Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë - 1847) - William Wyler -- 1939

11. Moby Dick (Herman Melville - 1851) - John Huston - 1956

 

12. Brighton Rock (Graham Greene - 1938) - John Boulting - 1947  

13. Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh - 1993) - Danny Boyle - 1996

 

14. Apocalypse Now (Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad - 1899) - Francis Ford Coppola - 1979

15. Empire of the Sun (JG Ballard - 1984) -  Steven Spielberg - 1987

16. The 39 Steps (John Buchan - 1915) - Alfred Hitchcock - 1935

17. All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque - 1929) - Lewis Milestone - 1930

 18. No Country For Old Men (Cormac McCarthy-2005) - The Coen brothers - 2007

19. The Remains of the Day (Kazou Ishiguro - 1989) - James Ivory - 1993

 

20. Wiseguy  (Nicolas Pileggi - 1986) - Goodfellas by Martin Scorsese - 1990 

21.Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov - 1955) - Stanley Kubrick - 1962

22.Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk - 1996) - David Fincher - 1999

23. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (John le Carré - 1974) - Tomas Alfredson - 2011

24. L.A. Confidential (James Ellroy - 1990) - Curtis Hanson - 1997

25. The Shining (Stephen King - 1977) - Stanley Kubrick - 1980

26. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey-1962) - Miloš Forman - 1975

27.The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett - 1930) - John Huston - 1941

28. Requiem For A Dream (Hubert Selby, Jr - 1978) - Darren Aronfsky - 2000

29.Rum Punch   (Elmore Leonard - 1992)- Jackie Brown by Quentin Tarantino - 1997

30.Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell - 1936) - David O. Selznick - 1939

31.The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Steig Larsson - 2005) - Niels Arden Oplev - 2009

32. True Grit (Charles Portis - 1968) - The Coen brothers - 2010

33. Brokeback Mountain (Anne Proulx - 1997)- Ang Lee - 2005

34. The Sheep-Pig (Dick King-Smith - 1983) - Babe by Chris Noonan - 1995

35. The Body (Stephen King - 1982) - Stand by Me by Rob Reiner 1986

 

36. Sense & Sensibility (Jane Austen - 1811) - Ang Lee - 1995 

 

37. A Kestrel for a Knave (Barry Hines - 1968) - Kes by Ken Loach - 1969

38. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick-1968) - Blade Runner by Ridley Scott - 1982

39.  Don’t Look Now (Daphne du Maurier - 1971) - Nicolas Roeg - 1973 

 

40. Silver Linings Playbook (Matthew Quick - 2008) - David O. Russell - 2012