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...Minghella had a thing for literary adaptation, and he also had a knack for it. He could translate the feel of a book onto the screen without making the viewer feel like they were reading a book. He showed off his skills yet again with 1999's The Talented Mr. Ripley, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel and the first of three films he made with Jude Law. "He was a brilliantly talented writer and director who wrote dialog that was a joy to speak and then put it onto the screen in a way that always looked effortless...
Last summer, as he took a break on the Gaborone, Botswana,- set of his latest film, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Anthony Minghella was trying to put success into perspective. He had won an Oscar for 1996's The English Patient, a film that became so ingrained in the collective cinematic consciousness it had an episode of Seinfeld dedicated to it. He had worked with a selection of the A-list: Jude Law, Renee Zellwegger, Matt Damon, Nicole Kidman. And he had built a reputation as the go-to guy for contemplative, complex, slowly unfolding films, the thinking...
...budget film filled with little-known actors that has absolutely no appeal to ticket-buying, popcorn-munching 18-to-24-year-old males - and it's not even showing in cinemas, instead going straight to TV. Could it possibly be a hit? "I've given up thinking about results," Minghella told TIME recently. "It's just all about the process. As long as I'm working with good people and we enjoy working together, that's the result...
...Audiences will get to see the fruits of that process on Easter weekend, when the BBC/HBO-produced No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency airs in the U.K. It could pull in the largest British audience for a Minghella film in a long while. But Minghella will never know. The screenwriter and filmmaker died from a hemorrhage on March...
...time when Jason Bourne and James Bond are worshiped like cinema kings, when quick cuts and chase scenes are box office gold, Minghella's films seem to come from a bygone era. The lingering shots; the scenes that measure out in minutes, not seconds; the dialogue where silence says as much as words - his motto could have been "Just Because Nothing Happens Doesn't Mean Nothing Is Happening." Watching a Minghella film takes patience, but it can be a rewarding wait. "He was not a stylist as a director," David Puttnam, a British film producer and friend of Minghella...