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	BBC - Southampton - Features - Anthony Minghella Interview
		Oscar winning film director Anthony Minghella is one of the world's most famous film makers - BBC South's Amanda Hussain went over to his parent's home on the Isle of Wight to talk to him about his career and inspirations from the island...
		Anthony Minghella is a keen musician and used to play keyboards in a couple of bands.
		It's no surprise then that a young Anthony chose Ryde Pier as one of the locations for his first ever film, which was based on the life of his grandmother.
	www.bbc.co.uk /southampton/features/anthony_minghella/minghella_intv.shtml (727 words)

	Anthony Minghella - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anthony Minghella is a British film director, playwright and screenwriter.
		He was born on January 6, 1954 on the Isle of Wight to an Italian/Scottish father and a mother who came from Gorbals, Scotland.
		This was Minghella's first work as a director, and he only chose to direct it himself as he thought that it would be little-watched and give him an opportunity to learn the craft before embarking on bigger projects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anthony_Minghella (368 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: Anthony Minghella's Triumph Over Hollywood
		It's not surprising that Minghella chose to do "The English Patient." Based on a 1992 book of the same name by Michael Ondaatje, the story is a project that the major studios all deemed too costly and difficult to pull off, which made it a crusade from the start.
		When Minghella was making the rounds of studios for financing, he ran up against a number of obstacles -- not the least of which being that Fiennes's character suffers horrible burns.
		Minghella was raised on England's Isle of Wight by Italian immigrant parents.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/review96/fminghella.htm (1614 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Interviews \| Down from Cold Mountain
		Minghella is, if nothing else, a working film-maker and, since his debut in 1991 with Truly Madly Deeply, his high-powered intellect and expansive imagination have taken him away from our shores, towards the bigger budgets and willingness to take risks of the US independent sector.
		Minghella's presidential detachment from the general run of British film-making is further reinforced by his own carefully nurtured production set-up.
		But Minghella is the real thing: a superb, if scholarly, prose writer, an obsessive medievalist (who else would cite the 16th-century morality play Everyman as a major influence on his scriptwriting?) and a fearless experimenter prepared to dabble in any available medium.
	film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,6737,1104800,00.html (1487 words)

	The Biography Channel - Anthony Minghella Biography
		Anthony Minghella, the film writer, producer and director, was born to Italian parents who owned anice-cream factory.
		The script took Minghella three years to write, and the film was highly acclaimed, and received 11 academy nominations, of which it won nine.
		However, Minghellaâs exceptional directorial skills were once more recognized by the National Board of Review, as they were in his next project, another literary adaptation, 'Cold Mountain', which he wrote and directed.
	www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/555:0/Anthony_Minghella.htm (344 words)

	Anthony Minghella
		Anthony Minghella's parents emigrated from Italy to England's Isle of Wight before he was born, and started a highly successful premium ice cream company.
		Although Anthony helped out with the business when he was young, his dream was to become a writer.
		Minghella, who lives in London with his wife and son, was named a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honors List.
	www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=2491 (400 words)

	Tavis Smiley . Archives . Anthony Minghella . January 13, 2004 \| PBS
		Minghella: Well, you know, it's funny because when I met Renee Zellweger, I met her because she'd wanted to option the novel, she'd loved the book so much.
		Minghella: It was interesting you said that they haven't seen the movie yet, because I think when you see the film, it's pretty clear why it is the way it is, but for me, I was trying to make a very important point.
		Minghella: Well, first of all, it's not the job of filmmakers to tell people off, but I think that what I care about is peaceful solutions.
	www.pbs.org /kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200401/20040113_minghella.html (1734 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Anthony Minghella
		A director known primarily for his classy, richly textured screen adaptations of famous novels, Anthony Minghella gained international recognition with his 1996 adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient.
		Minghella, who had also written for television and radio, made his film directorial debut in 1991 with Truly, Madly, Deeply.
		Minghella remained on somewhat familiar ground for his follow-up to The English Patient, a 1999 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/91067/bio.jhtml (633 words)

	Reel.com: Anthony Minghella Interview
		In the relatively short span of seven years, writer/director Anthony Minghella went from his first low-budget feature, the acclaimed Truly, Madly, Deeply, to Oscar gold for directing his third effort, The English Patient.
		Minghella, and the secret of his success becomes readily apparent: The man has an absolute passion for film.
		I had the pleasure of interviewing Minghella last year at the Zaentz Film Center in Berkeley, Ca., where he was busy putting the finishing touches on The Talented Mr.
	www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=features/interviews/minghella (1205 words)

	Anthony Minghella on Madama Butterfly - the Metropolitan Opera
		Choa, who is the productionâs associate director and its choreographer, was born and raised in Hong Kong, so this cross-cultural terrain was familiar ground: in addition to her extensive experience in dance and opera, she has a keen interest in experimental theater, particularly work influenced by Asian theatrical traditions.
		Knowing that Minghella and Choa did not want to stray from the traditional shape of kimonos, Han Feng threw her energy into colors, textures, and patterns, playing with traditional elements such as polka dots, stripes, and Chinese peonies.
		Minghella suggested waiting to see if the production was a success in London before committing it to New York, but Gelb insisted, not only on being a cocommissioner but also on scheduling the piece to open his first season.
	www.metoperafamily.org /metopera/news/features/minghella_butterfly_effect.aspx (1185 words)

	Bournemouth University \| The Media School \| Anthony Minghella
		Perhaps this same yearning for solid ground was what helped to sail Anthony across the sea from his tiny island home, all the way to the University of Hull, where he studied drama.
		Anthony says he has a busy year ahead of him and probably won't be returning to Bournemouth for a while, but as part of the new Screen Academy, Bournemouth is braced for a further influx of other film professionals.
		Anthony Minghella also described the partnership as "a good passport to get into the film industry," as "these kite-marked centres will enable students to understand exactly what they're getting into.
	media.bournemouth.ac.uk /about/news/mar6/news_anthonyminghella.html (810 words)

	Anthony Minghella photos, info and news - People
		"Anthony Minghella" (born January 6, 1954) is a British film director, playwright and screenwriter.
		Oscar-winning film-maker Anthony Minghella hates being the chairman off the British Film Institute (BFI) because he is constantly bombarded with questions about the financial state of the UK movie industry.
		Anthony Minghella, director of such films as Cold Mountain and The English Patient is set to direct Madame Butterfly at the English National Opera next November.
	people.monstersandcritics.com /archive/peoplearchive.php/Anthony_Minghella (203 words)

	Anthony Minghella - Biography - Moviefone
		A director known primarily for his classy, richly textured screen adaptations of famous novels, Anthony Minghella gained international recognition with his 1996 adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient.
		Despite this, when he began adapting The English Patient for the screen in 1995, Minghella did so with the intention of making the film in concert with 20th Century Fox, who ended up retracting their involvement five weeks before shooting was to begin in 1995.
		Minghella remained on somewhat familiar ground for his follow-up to The English Patient, a 1999 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/anthony-minghella/102995/biography (622 words)

	Anthony Minghella @ Filmbug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Anthony Minghella was born in 1954 on the Isle of Wight of Italian parents.
		Minghella was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Hull and the University of Southampton.
		Anthony Minghella was recently named the head of the British Film Institute.
	www.filmbug.com /db/1078 (390 words)

	NPR : Anthony Minghella's 'Madama Butterfly'
		Cristina Gallardo-Domas as Cio-Cio-San, with her puppet son in Anthony Minghella's Madama Butterfly, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York through Nov. 18.
		Minghella put together a remarkable team: set designer Michael Levine, costume designer Han Feng, puppeteers from London's Blind Summit Puppet Theatre, and Minghella's wife, choreographer Carolyn Choa.
		Minghella spent five years mulling over ideas for how he might make an opera, thinking about which opera to choose and how to adapt the skills he used in The English Patient and Cold Mountain to the opera stage.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=6363789 (421 words)

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		Jude Law, Alan Rickman and Anthony Minghella (pictured) are among the famous names backing the project, as well as other board members Peter Kozminsky, David Hare, journalist Baz Bamigboye and Jane Wright, responsible for commercial affairs at the BBC.
		Minghella is drawn to morally complex stories, or at least stories about morally flawed people.
		Minghella is excellent at capturing the quintessence of the lives of these privileged, who seem to be simply wafting through the time and place of 1958 New York and Southern Italy.
	www.lycos.com /info/anthony-minghella.html (524 words)

	Boxoffice Magazine Cover: ANTHONY IN ROME, Filmmaker Anthony Minghella Goes Italian for 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Minghella pushed the timeframe to the latter part of that decade because he wanted to fully capitalize on "Il Boom," an era of renaissance following World War II when the country was bursting with pizzazz.
		Minghella describes the film as having "a surface below the surface rhythm" not conforming to the dark look of standard mystery and suspense but savoring the sun and beauty of the Mediterranean.
		Minghella's script takes licenses with Highsmith's book, fleshing out and even creating additional characters and adding a whole element of music, contrasting Greenleaf's love of jazz with Ripley's classical bent in complex ways to underscore and contradict their personality traits and their illusions about who they are and what they represent.
	www.boxoff.com /issues/nov99/nov99story2.html (1100 words)

	Anthony Minghella
		Despite this, when he began adapting The English Patient for the screen in 1995, Minghella did so with the intention of making the film in concert with 20th Century Fox, who ended up retracting its involvement five weeks before shooting was to begin.
		Minghella subsequently embarked on another literary conformation, beginning production in 2000 on his adaptation of Charles Frazier's celebrated Civil War novel Cold Mountain.
		Starring Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Jude Law and Donald Sutherland, it took Minghella three years to turn out the film (he shot it in 2002; it received general release on Christmas Day 2003), and the reviews were far more divisive for Mountain than they had been for Ripley.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P102995 (806 words)

	AMCTV.com BIOGRAPHY - Anthony Minghella (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Minghella was named by American Theater owners as ShoWest's Director of the Year 2000.
		Anthony Minghella was born in 1954 on the Isle of Wight of Italian parents.
		Minghella was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Hull and the University of Southampton.
	www.amctv.com /person/detail?CID=18070-1-est (370 words)

	indieWIRE: REVIEW \| London Falling: Anthony Minghella's "Breaking and Entering"
		Perhaps its one unqualified pleasure is the welcome appearance of "The Office"'s Martin Freeman, who does a funny bit with a handshake near the end that casts the humorlessness of the proceedings in stark relief.
		As a director, Minghella is not without merit: he's given some thought into how to express his ideas in pictures (see, for instance, the use of mirrors and glass).
		But Minghella the writer has no interesting ideas to express; for all of his plot's convolutions, he's really just spinning his wheels in the mud of Western liberal guilt.
	www.indiewire.com /movies/2006/12/review_london_f.html (474 words)

	Anthony Minghella Biography at Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Anthony Minghella grew up as the child of Italian immigrants living on the Isle of Wight in Great Britain, so it is hardly surprising that the dominant theme of the outsider is found in the handful of films he has written and directed in the 1990s.
		As a youngster, Minghella assisted his parents in the operation of their ice cream franchise but harbored dreams of a career as a writer.
		Also interested in music, Minghella wrote songs and it was an attempt to create a showcase for some of his ditties that led him to pursue a writing career.
	www.hollywood.com /celebritydetail/Anthony_Minghella/190042 (1454 words)

	NPR : 'Cold Mountain' Director Anthony Minghella
		Day to Day, January 13, 2004 · Anthony Minghella is the Academy Award-winning director and screenwriter for several films, including The English Patient and The Talented Mr.
		Minghella says that to make Cold Mountain as authentic as possible, much of the film was shot in Romania and Transylvania because the countryside there is still largely unspoiled.
		The underlying theme of the film, Minghella says, is the way people survive together by listening and accepting -- and not by trying to kill each other.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1594840 (255 words)

	SPLICED: "The English Patient" interviews
		But some, like English screenwriter and director Anthony Minghella, might be driven to find a way to do the book justice as he was with his film "The English Patient," adapted from the Booker Prize-winning novel by Canadian author Michael Ondaatje.
		Minghella, who previously wrote and directed the heart-wrenching "Truly Madly Deeply," says he saw incredible potential for a moving film in Ondaatje's book.
		His dream has been met with a very positive response from critics and from the author, who was so taken with the film that he accompanied Minghella, Zaentz and some of the actors to the press junket in San Francisco.
	www.splicedonline.com /features/englishtalk.html (2220 words)

	Grand Classics - Anthony Minghella
		Speaking at the inaugural night of Grand Classics, Anthony Minghella introduced Federico Fellini's 1953 classic, I Vitelloni, and described how it inspired his career.
		Minghella, chairman of the British Film Institute - for which Grand Classics raises funds - was brought up in an Italian household in the little town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
		Minghella says film should inspire - "it's the difference between just going to the movies and paying your money and seeing a film, and having some event that explains or enlightens the film and puts it into some context."
	www.grandclassics.com /london_minghella.shtml (339 words)

	Fresh Air (NPR): Interview: Anthony Minghella, director and screenwriter of "The Talented Mr. Ripley," talks about his ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fresh Air (NPR): Interview: Anthony Minghella, director and screenwriter of "The Talented Mr.
		Interview: Anthony Minghella, director and screenwriter of "The Talented Mr.
		On this archive edition, we have an interview with the writer and director of the film, Anthony Minghella.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:30270330&refid=holomed_1 (223 words)

	Anthony Minghella The Storyteller website
		Minghella to do a page about his work just can't make things easy for ourselves.
		You'll find lots of information about the work of Anthony Minghella who might be one of the few people who could write an autobiography titled 'From Muppets to Men' if it wasn't for the fact that we might just beat him to it.
		Now that we have given you a sneak preview, come on in and read more about Anthony Minghella, Oscar winning director screenwriter, who should have won an Oscar for his screenplay for The English Patient and just great all around artist.
	members.tripod.com /~AMinghella/Storyteller.html (216 words)

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