Adaptations: from short story to big screen : 35 great stories that have inspired great films

Part one. The directors: translators, magicians, collaborators, and thieves. Jerry and Molly and Sam / Raymond Carver; Short cuts, directed by Robert Altman, 1993 --

Blow-up / Julio Cortázar; directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966 --

Your Arkansas traveler / Budd Schulberg; A face in the crowd, directed by Elia Kazan, 1957 --

Rear window / Cornell Woolrich; directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1954.

Part two. Science fiction: Kubrick and Spielberg, Spielberg and Kubrick. The sentinel / Arthur C. Clarke; 2001: a space odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, 1968 --

Supertoys last all summer long / Brian Aldiss; A.I. artificial intelligence, directed by Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick, 2001 --

The minority report / Philip K. Dick; directed by Steven Spielberg, 2002.

Part three. Horror: cue the gore. Spurs / Tod Robbins; Freaks, directed by Tod Browning, 1932 --

The fly / George Langelaan; directed by Kurt Neumann, 1958, and David Cronenberg, 1986 --

Herbert West

Reanimator: six shots by moonlight /

H.P. Lovecraft; Re-animator, directed by Stuart Gordon, 1985.

Part four. Westerns: "Tonto" means "fool" in Spanish. Stage to Lordsburg / Ernest Haycox; Stagecoach, directed by John Ford, 1939 --

A man called Horse / Dorothy M. Johnson; directed by Elliot Silverstein, 1970 --

This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona / Sherman Alexie; Smoke signals, directed by Chris Eyre, 1998.

Part five. Graphic stories: flying under the radar. The Harvey Pekar name story / Harvey Pekar; American splendor, directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, 2003 --

Ghost world

Chapter 5: "Hubba hubba" /

Daniel Clowes; Ghost world, directed by Terry Zwigoff, 2001.

Part six. Five all-but-lost stories. The wisdom of Eve / Mary Orr; All about Eve, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950 --

A reputation / Richard Edward Connell; Meet John Doe, directed by Frank Capra, 1941 --

Mr. Blandings builds his castle / Eric Hodgins; Mr. Blandings builds his dream house, directed by H.C. Potter, 1948 --

Cyclists' raid / Frank Rooney; The wild one, directed by Laslo Benedek, 1954 --

Tomorrow / William Faulkner; directed by Joseph Anthony, 1953.

Part seven. The good, the bad, and the unadaptable. Bringing up Baby / Hagar Wilde; directed by Howard Hawks, 1938 --

Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald; The last time I saw Paris, directed by Richard Brooks, 1954 --

The swimmer / John Cheever; directed by Frank Perry, 1968.

Part eight. Suspense = style? The killers / Ernest Hemingway; directed by Robert Siodmak, 1946 --

The basement room / Graham Greene; The fallen idol, directed by Carol Reed, 1948 --

Memento mori / Jonathan Nolan; Memento, directed by Christopher Nolan, 2000.

Part nine. Family film: nostalgia for an unlived past. Red Ryder nails the Hammond Kid / Jean Shepherd; A Christmas story, directed by Bob Clark, 1983 --

My friend Flicka / Mary O'Hara; directed by Harold D. Schuster, 1943 --

Shoeless Joe Jackson comes to Iowa / W.P. Kinsella; Field of dreams, directed by Phil Alden Robinson, 1989.

Part ten. World films: now you see them, now you don't. In a grove / Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Japan: Rashoman, directed by Akira Kurosawa, 1951 --

The lady with the pet dog / Anton Chekhov; Soviet Union: The lady with the dog, directed by Josef Heifitz, 1959; Russia/Italy: Dark eyes, directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, 1987.

Part eleven. The independents: money changes everything. Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates; Smooth talk, directed by Joyce Chopra, 1985 --

Auggie Wren's Christmas story / Paul Auster; Smoke, directed by Wayne Wang, 1995 --

Emergency / Denis Johnson; Jesus' son, directed by Alison Maclean, 1999 --

Killings / Andre Dubus; In the bedroom, directed by Todd Field, 2001.