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Oscar-Winning Director Minghella Dies

movies.yahoo.com — Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella, who turned such literary works as "The English Patient" "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Cold Mountain" into acclaimed movies, has died. He was 54.

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perre, on 03/18/2008, -1/+8So sad. One of the greatest writer-directors. He brought Ripley to life in a way that was far beyond his contemporaries. His first venture into film "Truly, Madly, Deeply" was one of the most endearing, personal expressions I've seen put on film.
mrshickadance9, on 03/18/2008, -2/+4Cold mountain was a great film. too bad about him.
ivosilva, on 03/18/2008, -2/+1Sad day... I guess I'm just going to watch some of his movies again... The Minghella/Murch association is over... :(
egoherodotus, on 03/18/2008, -3/+3Far too young. Loved his films (especially TEP); hope his family is hanging in there.
nutniqs, on 03/18/2008, -0/+3His latest movie is shown as completed on imdb..So maybe it can get through post production as well.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0874957/
JimSwarthow, on 03/18/2008, -12/+3who?
jmpeagle, on 03/18/2008, -10/+2did he Heath Ledger himself? What happened?
- dynelol, on 03/18/2008, -6/+1break his back?
derekjhunt, on 03/18/2008, -13/+1It's a shame he didn't die earlier, at least a few years before those horrible films were made.
- dynelol, on 03/18/2008, -3/+5When you open your mouth, what decides whether or not you put a dick or your foot into it?
- dynelol, on 03/18/2008, -1/+4I'll just assume that you flip a coin.
- derekjhunt, on 03/18/2008, -3/+2Depends if it's the English Patient, Cold Mountain or The Talented Mister Ripley is playing. Either way it's like getting visually raped over and over and over.
  - dynelol, on 03/18/2008, -1/+1Dugg up.
- BearinG, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1Maybe you should've died before these movies came out..
djdingo, on 03/18/2008, -12/+1Sorry, "The Talented Mr. Ripley" was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

I went to the theater to see it and right when it was over, the guy in the row in front of me said, "That was two and a half hours of *****."

I'll never forget that line!
- sunroom, on 03/18/2008, -3/+8Golly, so witty! Go, guy in the row in front of you!
- djvchris, on 03/19/2008, -1/+3If only the majority of people attending movie theaters had IQs over 100.
dynelol, on 03/18/2008, -4/+5People need to quit dying. It isn't funny anymore.
- hplasm, on 03/18/2008, -0/+4And now Arthur C Clarke- dies at 90. R.I.P
  - animaniac, on 03/19/2008, -1/+1They always do come in threes, don't they?
    - phronko, on 03/19/2008, -0/+3Yeah. Weird how a person can die, then another person dies some undetermined amount of time later, then another sometime later. It's amazing how inevitable events organize themselves such that one happens after the other until we stop counting after some arbitrary number.
      Watch this mystical way that common numbers can also organize themselves into threes: 123 456 789. OMG!
ELWOOD_BLUES, on 03/18/2008, -3/+1Although a sad day for his family...
I was going to say something about one of his movies but edited it out. Sorry, just don't want to speak ill of the dead.
NightVortez, on 03/18/2008, -5/+2Rest in Peace.

Don't really care much for his work but the man had a family, pay him some respect.
- dynelol, on 03/18/2008, -1/+6If you didn't respect someone when they were alive, why would you start respecting them after they die?
  - dsiv, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1NightVortez did not say that he didn't respect Minghella, he said that he did not care for his movies. BIG difference.
    - dynelol, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1He implied that you should respect the dead. You know it.
lyderaly, on 03/18/2008, -0/+2he died of a hemorrhage during neck surgery
RRJackson, on 03/18/2008, -0/+2WTF? Tragic loss. Great artist.
bobpayne, on 03/18/2008, -0/+1RIP. It's a shame to lose such an artistic visionary, but at least he's got a body of work to be looked fondly back upon. (preposition!)
SenorCardgage74, on 03/18/2008, -0/+1RIP.

While I fall in with the crowd that thinks English Patient was (quite a) bit too ponderous for its own good, I really loved Ripley and thought Mountain had much to enjoy too.

What was great about Minghella is that you could really see his style fitting in with the old masters of the 50s like David Lean.
He really had a "classic" feel that noone really traffics in any more and it will be interesting to see how his work ages.
lunachique, on 03/18/2008, -0/+4 I absolutely adored Jim Henson's The Storyteller which he directed. R.I.P.!
cRmtIMe, on 03/18/2008, -10/+3***** The English Patient.
- RRJackson, on 03/18/2008, -0/+1Yeah, I thought the movie was kind of overblown, too. But the filmmaking itself was wonderful. 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' was perfection, IMO. I had some issues with 'Cold Mountain,' but again there was a craftsmanship and artistry there that was impossible to deny. You've gotta give huge props to his editor and sound editor (Walter Murch is a living god, anyway), though. Some of the audio montages and dissolves that accompany them are magical.
leno1976, on 03/18/2008, -0/+0I think Ripley was an amazing,very,very weird film,I also think the opening ten minutes of Cold mountain are pretty stunning and some of the best images of the reality of the American civil war ever committed to celluloid.RIP
aceakm, on 03/18/2008, -0/+2He died while getting a routine neck surgery. Wtf.
- dynelol, on 03/19/2008, -1/+1If only Turk could've performed it.
kidcodea, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1respect.

i liked his work, but even if i didnt, i wouldn't behave like many retards do here.
jfujita, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1Rip. Talented Mr. Ripley was a great film.
smek2, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1He was 54? That's no age to die.
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