Comments on: Anthony Minghella, Dead at 54 http://blog.spout.com/2008/03/18/anthony-minghella-dead-at-54/ Daily coverage of what is truly interesting in the film world Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:45:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Ryan Stewart http://blog.spout.com/2008/03/18/anthony-minghella-dead-at-54/#comment-83944 Ryan Stewart Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:21:18 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/2008/03/18/anthony-minghella-dead-at-54/#comment-83944 This is absolutely terrible. Minghella was one of the best directors working, period. The Talented Mr. Ripley is a film that only improves with age and will probably go down as one of the top ten studio films of the 90s. I daresay it's better Highsmith than Hitchcock's Highsmith. The English Patient -- also great, despite the Academy's agreeance. I remember a press conference last year in which he talked about how excited he was to get started on The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, and you could tell it was going to be his next passion project, and would have probably been amazing. This is absolutely terrible. Minghella was one of the best
directors working, period. The Talented Mr. Ripley is a film
that only improves with age and will probably go down as one of the
top ten studio films of the 90s. I daresay it’s better
Highsmith than Hitchcock’s Highsmith. The English Patient
– also great, despite the Academy’s agreeance.

I remember a press conference last year in which he talked
about how excited he was to get started on The Ninth Life of
Louis Drax, and you could tell it was going to be his next
passion project, and would have probably been amazing.

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