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The English Patient
Directed by Anthony Minghella
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics. From TMDB
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The English Patient is a 1996 drama romance war film, directed by Anthony Minghella, starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche and Willem Dafoe.
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60 of 226 · most liked first"One Battle After Another" becomes the first movie to win an Oscar and walk on stage to Steely Dan since "The English Patient" in 1996
neutral · AI labelView post →Weinstein, of course, made such edgy, non-mainstream movies without stars like The English Patient, Shakespeare in Love, Good Will Hunting & Scary Movie 1-5
neutral · AI labelView post →Juliette Binoche, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of a nurse in 'The English Patient,' was named as jury president for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival reut.rs/4gqrtFs
neutral · AI labelView post →THE ENGLISH PATIENT. I know there were 267 ceiling tiles in theater two in Cinemas West in Wichita when it was open, because I ended up counting them during that endless, dull, boring ass movie. Plus FARGO is easily the best from that year.
negative · AI labelView post →This is like if a movie executive in the 90s was like "I know, let's hire the guy who does The Far Side to design a poster for The English Patient"
neutral · AI labelView post →gotta say the English Patient was an *incredible* date movie
positive · AI labelView post →My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of THE ENGLISH PATIENT boxd.it/chEK7V Plane crashes, deadly mines, illicit affairs, wartime betrayals, explicit sex & Ralph Fiennes rocking cargo shorts. Beautifully-filmed literate masterpiece succeeds on character, performance, emotion. Intimate epic, complex & adult. #filmsky 📽
positive · AI labelView post →When I was in film programming, patron requests figured very heavily into my selections. THE ENGLISH PATIENT flopped quickly at my competitor in 1997, but I booked it because of numerous customer requests: We got it before the Oscar nominations and made an absolute fortune with it.
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching THE ENGLISH PATIENT (1996). Director: Anthony Minghella. Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas. This Oscar-winning epic may have its detractors, but I am not (nor will I ever be) one. Gorgeous. Won 9 Oscars, including Picture. #filmsky 📽
positive · AI labelView post →Who was your biggest movie crush?😍 For me...Ralph Fiennes in 'The English Patient' 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →The English Patient [1996] is a Train Movie
neutral · AI labelView post →The English Patient. I found the movie just uninteresting and exhausting to get thru. I fell asleep watching it twice in film class. Professor woke me both times due to snoring. He later asked what was most positive about it? Good movie if you want to fall deep asleep. He gave me a 🤨.
negative · AI labelView post →The English Patient: A movie about one woman killed by two men who didn’t deserve her.
negative · AI labelView post →Reading The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje I kept thinking "this would be even better as a movie." Gotta check that out, seems like Seinfeld did them dirty.
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand. Celery The English Patient We didn’t start the fire (Why? Jeez. Yes you did.)
negative · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand: Eggs The English Patient* We Built This City *this despite Colin Firth, whom I've lusted after for 30 years
negative · AI labelView post →The Remains of the Day - The Govt Edition. (I was going to say The English Patient but that movie was so boring even dead people got up and left)
neutral · AI labelView post →Ralph Fiennes’ filmography is pretty insane. Schindler’s List - Best Picture The English Patient - Best Picture Grand Budapest Hotel - Best picture nominee Conclave - Best picture nominee* Harry Potter…. In Bruges… Prince of Egypt - Best Animated Film (Critics Choice)
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminds me of the League of Gentleman review of the English Patient: This film is basically about sand
neutral · AI labelView post →“From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.” ― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient #BookSky #Film
neutral · AI labelView post →There was a 3$ second run theater in NYC in the 1990s where you could also just wander into another movie. I remember seeing The English Patient and then sneaking into The Long Kiss Goodnight after EP ended as a cleanse, and emerging from the 2nd going “At least I saw one good amnesia movie today.”
negative · AI labelView post →Spending Valentine’s Day revisiting everyone’s favorite controversial Oscar film of 1996: THE ENGLISH PATIENT.
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with a book, film and TV show: 📖 Sense & Sensibility 🎞️ The English Patient 📺 Wheel of Time Although these are just the ones that spring to mind today. I could have 3 different choices tomorrow 🤷🏽♀️
neutral · AI labelView post →“From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.” ― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient #BookSky #Film
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old? The English Patient
neutral · AI labelView post →The English Patient. I just don't understand the love for it AT ALL. It bores me to death. Got in trouble in film class for sleeping through two watches of the film (professor forced me to see it a second time.
negative · AI labelView post →I've started listening to the Oscar wars audiobook again and was reminded of the most boring movie I ever sat through the entirety of in a theater, the English Patient. Wow was that movie definitely not for me.
negative · AI labelView post →#SeptemberMovieChallenge #Filmsky 21. A betrayal in a movie The English Patient (1996)
neutral · AI labelView post →The End of the Affair >>> The English Patient I said it #filmsky @1999thepodcast.bsky.social @juliasirmons.bsky.social @revalmanac.bsky.social @heatherjstewart.bsky.social 😁🖤🎬
negative · AI labelView post →the other day i watched Seinfeld S8 Ep 17 "The English Patient," in which Elaine hates the film The English Patient. then i decided to stream The English Patient (1996) and fell asleep two hours into the 2hr 42 min epic because i was bored. guess i'm Elaine-coded after all.
negative · AI labelView post →“From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.” ― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient #Literature #Film
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite film performances from the 1990s. Ralph Fiennes, Almasy, "The English Patient" (directed by Anthony Minghella). #movies #films #favoriteperformances #ralphfiennes #theenglishpatient #anthonyminghella
neutral · AI labelView post →By half way into The English Patient, my response to the film was "Please, please, let him die."
negative · AI labelView post →#Witness was the first film shot by Aussie cinematographer John Seale that got him noticed in Hollywood, and the first of his 5 Oscar nominations. His long list of credits includes some of the best-looking films of the last 40 years, including his Oscar-winning work on The English Patient. #TCMParty
neutral · AI labelView post →I never saw the movie “The English Patient” because it was 2 VHS tapes long. 📼 📼
neutral · AI labelView post →The English Patient was a horribly overrated movie about how it’s ok to be a nazi collaborator for love.
negative · AI labelView post →It’s a British film, though. KST is still working today. Fiennes has a normal body shape in the English Patient. Whereas just look at Hugh Jackman in the early 2000s vs Jackman in the 2010s.
neutral · AI labelView post →Every movie. Here's Method Man with his new track "The English Patient."
neutral · AI labelView post →The English Patient. Somebody said it was the ‘90s equivalent of Casablanca, but all the characters in the movie were despicable, and I was hoping that they all would die 
negative · AI labelView post →My favorite film performances from the 1990s. Ralph Fiennes, Almasy, "The English Patient" (directed by Anthony Minghella). #movies #films #favoriteperformances #ralphfiennes #theenglishpatient #anthonyminghella
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite film performances from the 1990s. Kristin Scott Thomas, Katharine Clifton, "The English Patient" (directed by Anthony Minghella). #movies #films #favoriteperformances #kristinscottthomas #theenglishpatient #anthonyminghella
neutral · AI labelView post →#FebruaryMovieChallenge #FilmSky 🎥 Egypt in a movie. The English Patient (1996)
neutral · AI labelView post →#WalterMurch is one of the greatest film editors & sound designers in cinema for 50 years. The Godfathers, THX 1138, American Graffiti, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, Ghost, The English Patient, & Return to Oz. Hearing him at @amcinematheque.bsky.social was a masterclass in making art from chaos.
neutral · AI labelView post →Morning Phase is painfully inert, it's a "Grammy album" the way something like The English Patient is an "Oscar movie". I get people that don't like Sea Change, but I'm a gigantic Nick Drake fan so I was never not going to like it. Odelay is my #1
neutral · AI labelView post →I just watched The English Patient and I'm so disappointed. There's not a single dinosaur in that movie.
negative · AI labelView post →#MayMovieChallenge Sandstorm in a movie The English Patient (1996) youtu.be/ScxYHTik7BI?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Hmm. Know any instances where the movie was better than the book? I'll start: The English Patient. (There. I said it.)
positive · AI labelView post →I concede that The English Patient is, indeed, a good movie
positive · AI labelView post →The English Patient. I spent the most of the movie muttering "JUST DIE ALREADY" under my breath. What a waste of time, money, and talent.
negative · AI labelView post →You can have a world where both The English Patient and Paddington 2 are considered good movies
positive · AI labelView post →10 days of favorite #Oscar winners (films that won best picture). Post a GIF from the movie! #filmsky Day 4: 6/10 The English Patient (1996) Scott Thomas and Binoche are magnificent.
positive · AI labelView post →Ok, I have thoughts: 1) The English Patient….so much going on in this film and the cinematography is great 2) The Ref…. Simply the best Xmas movie you have never seen. 2) The Philadelphia Story… the dialogue is fast and witty. Sadly they don’t make movies like this anymore
positive · AI labelView post →Wot, no Casablanca? No Ice Cold in Alex? And does The English Patient count as a war film?
neutral · AI labelView post →Let me put it this way. Which 1990s film is more remembered/loved? "Tremors" or "The English Patient".
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with One book 📚 — The English Patient One movie 🎥 — Casablanca One album 💿 — Counting Crows - August and Everything After One TV show — The West Wing
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with: One book: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Maggie O'Farrell One film: The English Patient One album: The Bends One TV show: Schitt's Creek
neutral · AI labelView post →This looks like a poster for a movie Elaine Benes wants to see instead of The English Patient
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy to proliferate the narrative that this is like Titanic or The English Patient but for The Gays because, again, we fucking deserve these kind of opulent, sweeping, grand, maximalist film treatments for our stories. 🥰 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBVx...
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw the English Patient years ago at the 2$ theater on 50th and 8th in NYC years ago, and after it ended, my friend and I snuck into the theater showing The Long Kiss Goodnight, after which we both agreed —phew, we were worried but we finally got $2 worth of good Amnesia movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →This movie is aggressively bad. Jesus Christ. I’d rather watch The English Patient. It has me cursing Thomas Edison for inventing moving pictures. The acting more stilted than a 1985 porno flick
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