This column was written by Wesley J. Smith. The most important bioethics litigation in the world today involves a 45-year-old Englishman, Leslie Burke. He isn't asking for very much. Burke has a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON — Anthony Minghella, a screenwriter, opera director and the Oscar-winning filmmaker of “The English Patient,” died of a hemorrhage Tuesday. He was 54. Minghella’s death came five days before ...

This story was first published Saturday, Nov. 9, 1996. The first thing you notice about the new film adaptation of Michael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning novel, The English Patient (which opens in ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Michael Ondaatje began The English Patient as a small scene between a burned patient and a nurse. He didn't know what he was writing – a ...

As The English Patient wins the Golden Booker prize, the author reveals why he could never have been a writer if he’d stayed in Britain On Sunday night, Michael Ondaatje stepped on to the wide stage ...