film as literature

that's the name of a course i took as an undergrad where we'd first read a book and then see the movie made from it. this is also highly applicable to this list of the Guardian's top 50 fifty films made from books. Jolie just posted this list, marking which books she'd read and which movies she'd seen (as did those before her). in the spirit of my own lack of originality, i will do the same.

1. 1984
2. [B/M]Alice in Wonderland
3. [B/M]American Psycho
4. [M]Breakfast at Tiffany's
5. Brighton Rock
6. Catch 22
7. [M]Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
8. A Clockwork Orange
9. Close Range (inc Brokeback Mountain)
10. The Day of the Triffids
11. Devil in a Blue Dress
12. [B/m*]Different Seasons (inc The Shawshank Redemption)
13. [m (again, i've not watched the whole movie]Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (aka Bladerunner)
14. Doctor Zhivago
15. Empire of the Sun
16. The English Patient
17. [M]Fight Club
18. The French Lieutenant's Woman
19. [M]Get Shorty
20. [M]The Godfather
21. [M]Goldfinger
22. [M]Goodfellas
23. [BM]Heart of Darkness (aka Apocalypse Now)
24. The Hound of the Baskervilles
25. [M]Jaws
26. [M]The Jungle Book
27. A Kestrel for a Knave (aka Kes)
28. [M]LA Confidential
29. [M]Les Liaisons Dangereuses
30. Lolita
31. [BM]Lord of the Flies
32. The Maltese Falcon
33. [M]Oliver Twist
34. [P**]One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
35. Orlando
36. The Outsiders
37. Pride and Prejudice
38. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
39. The Railway Children
40. Rebecca
41. The Remains of the Day
42. Schindler's Ark (aka Schindler's List)
43. Sin City
44. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
45. [M]The Talented Mr Ripley
46. [B]Tess of the D'Urbervilles
47. To Kill a Mockingbird
48. [M]Trainspotting
49. [M]The Vanishing
50. Watership Down

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* this gets a little "m" because i have only watched part of the movie. although Thurston's parents have this movie at their house, taped off the TV and labeled "Shamshank Penitentiary". classic!

** T and i saw this play in London, with Christian Slater as the poor man's Jack Nicholson.