Can't we all get along?

Let's just face it...1996 was a great year for film...and this (although I understand it's not everyone's cup of tea in terms of genre/style) was one of the great films from that year along with Breaking the Waves, Secrets & Lies and Fargo. Why does one film always have to be better or more deserving than the other and render the other one, as Elaine Benes would claim, a "stupid stupid film!"

The top four films (I loved all of them...was ravished by all of them in one way or another) from 1996 are all very different and deserving of praise for various reasons - Fargo for its brilliantly dark wit and insight into character and good and evil, Breaking the Waves for its bold and raw audacity of hope through misery and dogmatic style, Secrets & Lies for its realism and humanism and gritty acting, and The English Patient for its lush production values and novelistic narrative than lent itself to nuanced performances and sumptuously symbolic directing.

At any rate, you can't deny this story of The English Patient was highly influential...and in defense of The English Patient (the film), The English Patient (the Seinfeld episode) and The English Patient (the novel)...I recently mused on all three...

Check out the latest Spin on Film @
http://theschleicherspin.com/2013/08/22/the-english-patient-vs-the-eng lish-patient-vs-the-english-patient/