2008: The Year In Movies

[TrueFaith77]

Originally Posted by David

Why don't we start a thread -- Favorite Remakes?

A few that come to mind in my case:
THE MALTESE FALCON (Huston)
THE WIZARD OF OZ (Fleming)
THE LETTER (Wyler)
HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Hawks)

I put the director name to specify which version I mean.

Hmmm.. this raises an interesting point. Is it a remake if it's a more recent adaptation of another book or play? Especially when the original or previous film adaptions did not impress themselves upon the audience's consciousness in a significant way (certainly not in the manner as those films above). MOre to the point, are the above adaptations that exist in relation to the source material or remakes that consciously bounce off of previous adaptations? In other words, Switching Channels is surely a remake of His Girl Friday but is His Girl Friday a remake of The Front Page MOVIE? hmmm.... Is Thieves Like Us a remake of They Live By Night or another adaptation of the same novel?

I'm not against remakes in theory. I'd have to think if there are any that particularly impress me.

For example, I DO think of The Manchurian Candidate (Demme) as a superior remake, rather than adaptation of the novel.

King Kong (1976) version.

Planet of the Apes (Tim Burton)