Anthony Minghella, 54.
The English director Anthony Minghella is dead. He was 54. No cause of death was given. He had just finished shooting the film adaptation of The Number One Ladies Detective Agency in Botswana.
Minghella directed several episodes of Jim Henson’s Storyteller TV series before making the feature, Truly, Madly, Deeply. Truly, Madly, Deeply is a romantic comedy about death. Juliet Stevenson stars as a woman who is so grief-stricken at the death of her lover, it’s as if she’s died, too. Then her lover, played by Alan Rickman, returns as a ghost. At first they’re very happy, but before long she gets ticked off because there are ghosts in her living room all the time, watching Brief Encounter.
Minghella also wrote/adapted and directed Mr. Wonderful, The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley (Jude Law has never been as beautiful, and Philip Seymour Hoffman stole every scene he was in), Cold Mountain, and Breaking and Entering. He was recently seen in Atonement as the man interviewing the aged Briony Tallis (Vanessa Redgrave). He will be missed. Watch clips from his movies.
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March 19th, 2008 at 01:40
This is quite shocking and sad. The Talented Mr. Ripley is one my favorite films :(
Latest from Variety:
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Anthony Minghella dies, 54
Director suffers brain hemorrhage
by ADAM DAWTREY
LONDON — Anthony Minghella , the Oscar-winning director and writer of “The English Patient,†has died suddenly. He was 54.
A spokesman 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.
Minghella most recently directed the BBC/HBO telepic “No 1 Ladies Detective Agency,†based on Alexander McCall Smith’s novel set in Botswana, which is due to premiere March 23 on BBC1.
His last movie was “Breaking and Entering.†His other credits include “Cold Mountain,†“The Talented Mr Ripley†and “Truly Madly Deeply.â€
March 19th, 2008 at 06:03
…Spokesman Jonathan Rutter said Minghella died early Tuesday at London’s Charing Cross Hospital. Rutter said Minghella underwent surgery last week for a growth in his neck. He said the operation “seemed to have gone well. At 5 a.m. today he had a fatal hemorrhage.”