At the Movies for World Book Week

This years World Book Week theme is At the Movies!

To celebrate this staff and students have created Top Lists of Books & Films to inspire your next film or fiction fix!


Top 10 Books adapted into Films chosen by LRC Staff

• One Day by David Nicholls
• We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
• The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• Don't Look Now by Daphne Du Maurier
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
• Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
• To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
• Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

Top 10 Films adapted from Books chosen by Adam Nelson (Media Tutor) 

• Once Upon a Time in America - Based on 'The Hoods' by Harry Grey
• Blade Runner - Based on 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' by Phillip K. Dick
• Let the Right One In - Based on the book of the same name by John Avijde Lindqvist
•  Jaws - based on the book of the same name by Peter Benchley
• The Godfather - based on the book of the same name by Mario Puzo (This film is better than the book in my opinion)
• City of God - based on the book of the same name by Paulo Lins
• There Will Be Blood - based on 'Oil!' by Upton Sinclair
•  2001: A Space Odyssey - based on the book of the same name by Arthur C. Clarke
• Shawshank Redemption - based on 'Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption' by Stephen King
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - based on the book of the same name by Ron Hansen

25 Films adapted from Books chosen by BTEC Media Students

• The Godfather
• The Dark Knight
• You Only Live Twice
• Jaws
• Silence of the Lambs
• Shawshank Redemption
• There Will Be Blood
• Clockwork Orange
• 12 Angry Men
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 
• Blade Runner 
• Fight Club 
• American Beauty
• Raging Bull 
• Forrest Gump
• Goodfellas 
• American Psycho 
• The Last King of Scotland 
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 
• The Gomorrah 
• The Green Mile 
• The Prestige 
• The Shining 
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 
• First Blood

Pop in throughout the week to tells us yours!