Overview

• King posted his list on X, naming Sorcerer, The Godfather Part II, The Getaway, Groundhog Day, Casablanca, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Jaws, Mean Streets, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Double Indemnity.
• He specified that he was excluding four acclaimed adaptations of his own work: Misery, The Shawshank Redemption, Stand by Me, and The Green Mile.
• Coverage noted that a majority of his choices come from the 1970s, reflecting a period that likely shaped his cinematic tastes.
• Observers pointed out the absence of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, which King has criticized for giving Jack Torrance no character arc.
• King recently told The Times UK he wanted The Long Walk to portray violence realistically, as the film heads to theaters on Sept. 12.