The English patient
(DVD)

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Contributors

Minghella, Anthony, film director,
Zaentz, Saul, film producer.
Fiennes, Ralph, actor.
Binoche, Juliette, 1964- actor.
Dafoe, Willem, actor.

Status

Popular Media - 3rd Floor
PN1997 .E6431 2004
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Location	Call Number	Note	Status
Popular Media - 3rd Floor	PN1997 .E6431 2004	disc 1-2	On Shelf

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Subjects

LC Subjects

DVD-Video discs.
Feature films.
Film adaptations.
Florence (Italy) -- History -- Drama.
Geographers -- Great Britain -- Drama.
Historical films.
Jilf al Kabir Plateau (Egypt) -- Drama.
Love -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Nurses -- Drama.
Ondaatje, Michael, -- 1943- -- Film adaptations.
Ordnance disposal units -- Great Britain -- Drama.
Spies -- Drama.
Thieves -- Drama.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
War films.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Italy -- Drama.

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Format

DVD

Physical Desc

2 videodiscs (162 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

UPC

786936239065, 031398138136, 8693623906

Notes

General Note

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1996.

General Note

Based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje.

General Note

Widescreen 1.85:1.

General Note

Disc one: Special features: feature commentary with director Anthony Minghella; feature commentary with director and screenwriter Anthony Minghella, producer Saul Zaentz, and English Patient author Michael Ondaatje.

General Note

Disc two: Bonus material: About Michael Ondaatje (22 min.); From novel to screenplay: interviews with cast and crew (8 min.); The formidable Saul Zaentz (2 min.); A historical look at the real Count Almasy (9 min.); Filmmaker conversations (79 min.); The work of Stuart Craig: production designer (4 min.); The eyes of Phil Bray: still photographer (3 min.); Master class with Anthony Minghella: deleted scenes (20 min.); Black and white to colour: the making of The English Patient (53 min.); Reviews of The English Patient [text feature]; sneak peeks [previews] (9 min.).

Restrictions on Access

For private home use only.

Creation/Production Credits

Director of photography, John Seale ; film editor, Walter Murch ; original music composed by Gabriel Yared ; costume designer, Ann Roth ; production designer, Stuart Craig.

Participants/Performers

Ralph Fiennes (Almásy), Juliette Binoche (Hana), Willem Dafoe (Caravaggio), Kristin Scott Thomas (Katharine Clifton), Naveen Andrews (Kip), Colin Firth (Geoffrey Clifton), Julian Wadham (Madox), Jürgen Prochnow (Major Muller)

Description

At the end of World War II, a mysterious, horribly burned man who claims not to remember his name, known only as the "English patient," lies near death in an Italian villa. He is cared for by a quietly desperate young nurse, Hana, herself a victim of the war. With her at the villa are Kip, a young Sikh bomb-disposal expert, and a shadowy thief with bandaged hands named Caravaggio. The key to the burned man's past may lie in his commonplace book, a volume of Herodotus, and its intimations of the sacred whirlwind of a great, mysterious, passionate, and tragically doomed love, which trapped two unsuspecting people, forever.

Target Audience

MPAA rating: rated R, for sexuality, some violence and language.

System Details

DVD; region 1, NTSC, dual layer, widescreen; DTS 5.1 Digital surround sound, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.

Language

In English with optional subtitles in Spanish and French; closed-captioned.

Awards

Academy Awards, 1997: Best Picture (Saul Zaentz); Best Director (Anthony Minghella); Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Juliette Binoche); Best Cinematography (John Seale); Best Film Editing (Walter Murch); Best Music, Original Dramatic Score (Gabriel Yared); Best Sound (Walter Murch, Mark Berger, David Parker, Christopher Newman); Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Stuart Craig, Stephanie McMillan); Best Costume Design (Ann Roth).

Awards

Golden Globes, 1997: Best Motion Picture-Drama; Best Original Score-Motion Picture (Yared)

Awards

Directors Guild of America, 1997: Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures (Minghella and others)

Local note

SACFinal081324

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Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Minghella, A., Zaentz, S., Fiennes, R., Binoche, J., Dafoe, W., Scott-Thomas, K., Andrews, N., Firth, C., Wadham, J., Prochnow, J., Yared, G., Seale, J., Murch, W., Roth, A., & Ondaatje, M. (2004). The English patient . Miramax Home Entertainment.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Anthony, Minghella et al.. 2004. The English Patient. [Los Angeles, CA]: Miramax Home Entertainment.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Anthony, Minghella et al.. The English Patient [Los Angeles, CA]: Miramax Home Entertainment, 2004.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Minghella, A., Zaentz, S., Fiennes, R., Binoche, J., Dafoe, W., Scott-Thomas, K. and Andrews, N. et al (2004). The english patient. [Los Angeles, CA]: Miramax Home Entertainment.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Minghella, Anthony,, et al. The English Patient Miramax Home Entertainment, 2004.

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