Anthony Minghella Triple: Cold Mountain / The Talented Mr Ripley / The English Patient [1997]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Blind Summit's puppets regularly upstage the actors they appear with. Will 1984, their Orwellian new show, be different? Blind Summit's puppets are wily, untrustworthy things, for ever outsmarting their human handlers. It's a recurring theme in the theatre company's work, and it was especially true of the characters they created for the late film-maker Anthony Minghella's first opera, a production...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Two years after his sudden death, what may turn out be Anthony Minghella's final work, Nine – an all-star musical about a director in dilemma – is about to appear. David Thomson hymns his friend 'Ant' Nine will open wide in America on Christmas Day, and it is certain to be a major contender in the Oscar race. It is the movie version of the musical (book by Arthur Kopit, music by Maury...
muzikistah (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Release 25 November 2009 Genre: Musical Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Penélope Cruz, Judi Dench, Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson Director: Rob Marshall Writer: Michael Tolkin, Anthony Minghella Studio: The Weinstein Company Plot: Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse,...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
"Americans do this lovey-dovey rubbish, right?" Fiennes and Walger in FlashForward. Two years after the New York Times pegged a British-actor invasion to Hugh Laurie and House , a true army of (quite decent) Brits have landed starring roles playing Americans on U.S. TV. (At the time of the Times article, only a few had landed plum parts as Yanks — like Kevin McKidd in the short-lived...
BJP (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Shekhar Kapur’s segment in the film New York I Love You -a collection of short stories -is dedicated to the late Anthony Minghella, who wrote the script of this segment and had intended to direct it, but passed away before the movie was completed. Producer Emmanuel Benbihy recalls, “They had a long conversation about life and [...]
World Video Blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgT65S8ze-Qendofvid [starttext] Nine is 2009 American musical film, directed by Rob Marshall. The screenplay by Michael Tolkin and Anthony Minghella, based on Arthur kopitered book for the 1982 Tony Award-winning musical of the same name, which comes from an Italian play by Mario Fratti inspired by Federico Fellini's autobiographical film 8 ½. [endtext]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Jury duty means I'm not allowed to speculate. So stand by for rational thinking Everyone says the recession has ushered in a fashion for the smaller scale. Bicycles not 4x4s, bedsits rather than loft extensions, allotment veg instead of the weekly Ocado. Ever modish, I'm going to offer you a downsized column: small, home-made observations rather than a great palatial sweep. Secretly, this is nothing...
The ODI (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Thanks to Serengeti and Marilyn for the heads up. Lost star Naveen Andrews has signed on to film a guest spot on an episode of Law & Order: SVU, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. The details of his role are being kept under wraps for now, but the episode starts filming in the next week or so in New York. Andrews, 40, plays Sayid Jarrah on ABC's Lost, which is still shooting its final season...
SpoilerTV (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Thanks to Serengeti and Marilyn for the heads up. Lost star Naveen Andrews has signed on to film a guest spot on an episode of Law & Order: SVU, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. The details of his role are being kept under wraps for now, but the episode starts filming in the next week or so in New York. Andrews, 40, plays Sayid Jarrah on ABC's Lost, which is still shooting its final season...
LOST Media Mentions (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Thanks to Serengeti and Marilyn for the heads up. Lost star Naveen Andrews has signed on to film a guest spot on an episode of Law & Order: SVU, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. The details of his role are being kept under wraps for now, but the episode starts filming in the next week or so in New York. Andrews, 40, plays Sayid Jarrah on ABC's Lost, which is still shooting its final season...
Isle of Wight - WightBlog.co.uk (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Quay Arts present an exquisite music recital by young piano virtuoso Sholpan Sharbakova in the Anthony Minghella Theatre on Thursday, 19th November at 8pm. Sholpan, born 1982 began studying the piano at the age of four, won a “Bolashak” Presidential Scholarship of Kazakhstan enabling her to pursue her post-graduate studies at London’s Royal Academy of Music, [...] Sholpan Sharbakova...
Baroque in Hackney (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Okay, this is it. The middle-of-the-night iphone post. I’m really not here. I’m in a bed in a cold room in Yorkshire (overlooked by a v jolly photo of Anthony Minghella), by the side of a load of crags, mill ruins and a little burbling river. I have not made the pilgrimage to Plath’s grave. [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
I had by chance just unearthed a reference to Anthony Minghella's presence at the 2006 Film Society of the Year awards before reading your report ( Brown to back national film centre with £45m fund , 16 October). In his 2006 speech he was more concerned with "opportunities around the country for people to see great cinema", but as you recall he was equally passionate about establishing...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
• Funds to help create new public home for the BFI • Centre will be built close to Royal Festival Hall The dream of a new National Film Centre on London's South Bank is to take a decisive step closer to reality when Gordon Brown confirms tomorrow that the government is to provide £45m in funding to realise it. The prime minister is expected to say he believes the centre, with five...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
"The ten-day Suspense festival [presented by Islington's Little Angel Theatre] will feature masterclasses, lectures and performances by 24 companies." The festival's director says that "recent shows such as War Horse, Avenue Q and Anthony Minghella's Madam Butterfly have revealed how 'sophisticated, irrational, grotesque and potent the artform can be'."...
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