Recommendations of the Editorial team
His last novel “Never Flinch” (“No Back”) appeared in early summer. And as you know the American multi -writer Stephen King, the next opus has long been in the pipeline. Depending on the count, the 77-year-old has published over 60 novels and more than 100 short stories.
In the meantime, he always finds time for funny side activities. To create about its top 10 of the best films ever. What is known is not that easy
He lists classics from Coppola, Scorsese, Wilder and Spielberg. And shoots a small, not entirely surprising tip against “The Shining”. For this, King used the short message platform “X”. A favorite fireworks “in no particular order”, as he emphasizes.
Passionate cineast with soft spot for the golden age of the 1970s
The selection is less bloody than one would suspect, but no less revealing: King shows himself as a passionate cineast with a soft table for the golden age of the 1970s between classics of New Hollywood, film noine milestones and Spielberg’s blockbuster cinema.
Also present: William Friedkin’s “Sorcerer”, a once flopped thriller from 1977, who is now considered an underestimated masterpiece. No coincidence that King calls this film – Friedkin himself thought he was the most personal work. In retrospect, it only makes him more interesting that “Sorcerer” was shifting to “Star Wars” in terms of “Star Wars”-and also a bit more likeable.
Also on the list: Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather Part II”, Scorseses “Mean Streets” (the first collaboration with Robert de Niro), the gangster classic “The GetaWay” with Steve McQueen, as well as two Spielberg films: “The White Hai” (Jaws) and “uncanny encounter of the third type” Third child ”).
The latter was not adapted by a novel – but at least received a novel to the cinema. Love of books remains a love of books.
In general, King shows a clear soft spot for literary adaptations: “Sorcerer”, “The Godfather”, “The GetaWay”, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”, “Jaws” (“The White Hai”) “Double Dop” – everyone is based on novels or novellas. Even if he is politely outside his own works: “Misery”, “Stand by Me”, “The Green Mile” and “The Shawshank Redemption” he mentions praising – all of the public favorites, all directed by Rob Reiner or Frank Darabont.
Kubrick, however,? False
Kubrick, however,? None. The fact that “The Shining” does not appear should not surprise anyone who knows King’s decades of dislike against Kubrick’s interpretation. “Carrie”, his literary debut and cinematic breakthrough by Brian de Palma, is also missing – a striking, albeit perhaps deliberately set exclamation mark.
A small outlier in the list: “Groundhog Day” (“And forever greets the marmot”)-yes, the time loop-romcom with Bill Murray and Andie Macdowell.
Between the mafia, murder and noir, the film seems almost out of place – until you notice that King’s horror was always a game with repetition, routine and the inevitable.
Stephen Kings Top 10 films (no order):
- Sorcerer (1977, director: William Friedkin)
- The Godfather Part II (1974, directed by Francis Ford Coppola)
- The Getaway (1972, directed by Sam Peckinpah)
- Groundhog Day (1993, directed by Harold Ramis)
- Casablanca (1942, directed by Michael Curtiz)
- The treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, directed by John Huston)
- Double Dobnity (1944, directed by Billy Wilder)
- Jaws (1975, directed by Steven Spielberg)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, directed by Steven Spielberg)
- Mean Streets (1973, directed by Martin Scorsese)