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Stephen King’s latest adaptation, The Long Walk, is released this Friday on the back of strong reviews. Many are saying it is the best big-screen adaptation of his work since The Green Mile. As part of the publicity fo the movie, he was asked to name his ten favorite movies of all time on X.
As reported on Dark Horizons, here is what made up his list. The author said they are in no particular order.
William Friedkin’s Sorcerer
Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part II
Sam Peckinpah’s The Getaway
Harold Ramis’ Groundhog Day
Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca
John Huston’s Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Steven Spielberg’s Jaws
Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets
Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity
Some of this list is super-normie, some of it is surprising. Sorcerer has undergone a critical renaissance recently, with many discovering it for the first time in their later movie-watching lives.
Two Spielberg entries. Everyone knows Jaws is an all-time classic, but Close Encounters? Recent rewatches have revealed a plodding and largely nonsensical affair that seems propped up by nostalgia. I would choose Raiders Of The Lost Ark over Close Encounters every day of the week.
It is good to see time being very kind to Groundhog Day.
If King had allowed himself to select works based on his own books, would The Shawshank Redemption make the list?
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