To be fair, Elaine never wanted to see The English Patient. Even though her date notes that the film is up for a bunch of Oscars, she prefers to catch Sack Lunch, an apparently wacky comedy. “Don't ...

According to Deadline, this will be a new, fresh adaptation of Ondaatje's book rather than a remake of the 1996 movie that was written and directed by the late Anthony Minghella. The movie The story ...

The desert romance has a distinguished history in the movies, from Rudolph Valentino’s swan song, “Son of the Sheik,” in 1926, through the greatest of them all, in which nary a dune appears: 1942’s ...

The English Patient has been crowned the best ever Man Booker Prize winner. The novel by Michael Ondaatje was chosen by the public as the recipient for the Golden Man Booker Prize, a one-off accolade ...

Who bears more responsibility for the declining reputation of The English Patient: Elaine Benes, or Harvey Weinstein? On its release at the end of 1996, The English Patient was widely hailed as a ...

Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient (Bloomsbury), the story of an injured, anonymous English WWII pilot and his Italian nurse, has been named the winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize, awarded to ...