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03-18-2008, 09:20 AM
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Crawdaddy
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Director Minghella has died at 54 years of age!
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03-18-2008, 09:31 AM
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Re: Director Minghella has died at 54 years of age!
That's terrible! What a loss.
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03-18-2008, 10:51 AM
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Michael Reuben
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Re: Director Minghella has died at 54 years of age!
I just saw this headline, and I'm at a loss for words.
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03-18-2008, 11:52 AM
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Re: Director Minghella has died at 54 years of age!
Yes, very surprising indeed. I just read a bit of news about his next movie a few days ago. He was a talented filmmaker and it's our loss we didn't get more from him.
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03-18-2008, 12:30 PM
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Re: Director Minghella has died at 54 years of age!
Very sad. I enjoyed his films.
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03-18-2008, 12:53 PM
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Re: Director Minghella has died at 54 years of age!
Wow a bit of a shock, and only 54. It's been an unusually bad year so far for unexpected deaths in the movie industry. Renfro, Ledger, Scheider and now Minghella.
Sad news.
RIP
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03-18-2008, 01:21 PM
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Re: Director Minghella has died at 54 years of age!
I was shocked when I heard this on the radio. Who knows how many great pictures he could have made in the future.
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03-18-2008, 01:32 PM
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Re: Director Minghella has died at 54 years of age!
Surprising. I'd never been much of a fan (he had a knack for making two and a half hours feel like seven), but I did rather enjoy his first and most recent films (Truly Madly Deeply and Breaking and Entering). His relatively short career is actually more varied than it first appears.
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03-18-2008, 02:00 PM
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Re: Director Minghella has died at 54 years of age!
My God, I can't believe it. The English Patient was one of my favourites. So sad for his family.
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03-18-2008, 02:12 PM
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Re: Director Minghella has died at 54 years of age!
As others have said...shocking. The circumstances sound eerily similar to the serious complications that Roger Ebert had after his surgery,
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