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The English Patient

August 2022

  • What are the odds … Bob (Simon Pegg) and Sam Greenfield (Eva Noblezada) in Luck.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Luck to The Evil Dead: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Simon Pegg plays a chatty catty in a sparkling new animation, and Bruce Campbell battles the hordes of hell in Sam Raimi’s classic gore-splattered horror

July 2018

  • Michael Ondaatje, winner of the Golden Man Booker prize with The English Patient.

    ‘It's the book that gave me freedom’: Michael Ondaatje on The English Patient

  • Michael Ondaatje

    The English Patient wins public poll of best Man Booker in 50 years

September 2017

  • Michael Ondaatje

    Michael Ondaatje opens archive to reveal his writing methods

    Author’s papers, acquired by the Harry Ransom Center in Texas, include a photograph that formed the basis of one of the scenes in The English Patient

August 2016

  • American Pastoral press film still Director: Ewan McGregor Writers: John Romano (screenplay), Philip Roth (novel) Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning, Ewan McGregor |

    The bigger they come: how to film an 'unfilmable' book

    Can Philip Roth’s epic novel American Pastoral work as a film? Screenwriter Hossein Amini, who has taken on two ‘impossible novels’, reveals the secret to cracking the classics

April 2016

  • Kristin Scott Thomas and Ralph Fiennes in The English Patient

    How we made
    How we made The English Patient

    Kristin Scott Thomas: ‘The love scenes with Ralph Fiennes were like jumping naked into an icy swimming pool’

February 2016

  • Alicia Vikander backstage at the Oscars

    Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander: 'I never thought I'd do films in English'

  • Heartfelt conviction: Emma Thompson at the Berlin Film Festival.

    Emma Thompson: English rose. Flower of Scotland. And all-round thorn in the side

August 2015

  • Jacques Audiard.

    Jacques Audiard to adapt The Sisters Brothers for English-language debut

    The Beat That My Heart Skipped director saddles up to direct western starring John C Reilly
  • Warren Brown in the biopic Captain Webb

    Captain Webb review – oafish biopic of first man to swim the English Channel

    Stick-on sideburns and phoney yokel accents are just two of the problems with this cheap and unconvincing biopic
  • Bonnie Prince Charlie portrait

    English actor to play Scotland's tragic hero Bonnie Prince Charlie

    Actor Jamie Bacon and the Young Pretender have something in common: neither had previously visited Scotland

July 2015

  • Terence Stamp for Arts. Photo by Linda Nylind. 11/2/2015.

    Terence Stamp: English is a foreign language in London

    Icon of swinging 60s complains English speakers can ‘barely get by’ in capital and laments struggle to purchase fruit from East End market stall due to language barrier

January 2014

  • Saul Zaentz in 1997

    Saul Zaentz obituary

    Oscar-winning film producer behind One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus and The English Patient

August 2009

  • The English Patient

    The English Patient

    The best British films 1984-2009: An epic love story with stunning photography and a mood of sweeping romance
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