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RIP Anthony Minghella
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:23 am
by silverscreenselect
Movie director who won an Oscar for The English Patient and also directed The Talented Mr. Ripley and Cold Mountain, among others. He also wrote all three of those movies, getting Oscar nominations for English Patient and Ripley.
No word yet on cause of death. Age 54
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:51 am
by PlacentiaSoccerMom
From TMZ:
UPDATE: A spokesperson for the director said he suffered a brain hemorrhage at 5 A.M. Tuesday morning at Charing Cross Hospital in London, where he had undergone a routine operation on his neck.
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:24 pm
by KillerTomato
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:From TMZ:
UPDATE: A spokesperson for the director said he suffered a brain hemorrhage at 5 A.M. Tuesday morning at Charing Cross Hospital in London, where he had undergone a routine operation on his neck.
From BBC: "fatal haemorrhage ... days after having surgery for cancer of the tonsils and neck."
I was always less enamoured of his movies than the critics (I thought "The English Patient" was a long, pretentious mess, for instance, but I'm always sorry to hear of people passing before they should.
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:31 pm
by ontellen
Thanks, KT for restoring my faith in common sense. I thought that only Elaine Benes and I hated the English Patient. Pretentious is exactly what it was.
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:45 pm
by ghostjmf
Good Grief!
Just for the record, I never went to see "The English Patient"; some day I'll catch it on TV. Or something. Even the descriptions by people who absolutely loved it made it sound turgid beyond belief.
However, the movie you left off the list, "Truly Madly Deeply" is one of my favorite movies of all time. Hard to believe the same director was involved.
And of course I have emotional stuff invested in Cold Mountain, because people I know got to be involved in recording the Sacred Harp song "Idumea", which is played behind the Battle of the Crater scenes.
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:47 pm
by Bob Juch
ghostjmf wrote:Good Grief!
Just for the record, I never went to see "The English Patient"; some day I'll catch it on TV. Or something. Even the descriptions by people who absolutely loved it made it sound turgid beyond belief.
However, the movie you left off the list, "Truly Madly Deeply" is one of my favorite movies of all time. Hard to believe the same director was involved.
And of course I have emotional stuff invested in Cold Mountain, because people I know got to be involved in recording the Sacred Harp song "Idumea", which is played behind the Battle of the Crater scenes.
Truly, Madly, Deeply was his first film.