Against all Odds is a remake of Out of the Past.
Blowout is a remake of Blowup
3 Men and a Baby is a remake of 3 Hommes et un Couffin
Birdcage is a remake of La Cage au Folles
Heaven Can Wait is a remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Resevoir Dogs was remade last year as Kaante (although many say that it was a remake of an earlier film from Hong Kong).
There are relatively few remakes of movies. Most of what people call “remakes” are simply a new version of an underlying literary work, whether a novel or a play or a musical. For instance, Heaven Can Wait (1978) is not a remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), it is a remake of the play by Harry Segall that Here Comes Mr. Jordan was adapted from.
The Birdcage (1996), on the other hand, credits both the play La Cage aux Folles by Jean Poiret, and the 1978 movie adaptation, as its sources. So it truly is a remake of the earlier movie.
When one movie truly is a remake of another movie, you would see the writers of the earlier movie credited in the new movie.
While Brian De Palma’s Blow Out (1981) has themes in common with Antonioni’s Blowup (1966), it is not a remake.
That would be 1987’s City on Fire. I believe Tarantino characterized his film as a tribute, but many Hong Kong fans used less charitable terms for it.
Sorry, Walloon - you’re right. Perhaps some of those which I listed may be classified as reinterpretations.
And Steven Soderburgh also gave us a remake of Solaris, discussed at length in this forum.
I wanted to add Cape Fear, which in 1962 starred Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum, and Martin Scorsese’s 1991 remake which featured Nick Nolte and Robert De Niro in the hero and villain roles, respectively. Mitchum and Peck also appeared in Scorsese’s version, in minor roles.
A slightly lesser known one is Narrow Margin and [url=“http://us.imdb.com/Title?0044954”] The first is a Gene Hackman remake.
Damn… I can’t find the one I was really looking for…