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FAMOUS DIRECTORS CHECKLIST SERIES - Volume #196 - The Films of ANTHONY MINGHELLA
THE FAMOUS DIRECTORS CHECKLIST SERIES - Volume #196 - The Films of ANTHONY MINGHELLA
Rank ‘em, rate ‘em, review ‘em or whatever.
ANTHONY MINGHELLA
Cold Mountain (2003)
Play (2000)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
The English Patient (1996)
Mr. Wonderful (1993)
Truly Madly Deeply (1991)
The Collection (Blu-Ray High Definition/DVD)
Pre-orders - BLU-RAY: 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Casino, Dawn of the Dead, Death Proof, Dr No, Eastern Promises, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia With Love, The Godfather Collection, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, Hulk, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Incredible Hulk, Interview with the Vampire, Iron Man, JFK, LA Confidential, Live and Let Die, The Matrix (Ultimate Collection), The Mist, The Omen, Planet of the Apes (Evolution Collection), Planet Terror, Poltergeist, The Sixth Sense, Sleeping Beauty, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Thing, The Third Man, Thunderball, WALL E, Young Frankenstein DVD: Budd Boetticher Collection, Icons of Horror: The Hammer Collection, Popeye the Sailor Vol #3, Warner Gangster Collection Vol #4
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07-13-2005, 06:58 AM
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The Collection (Blu-Ray High Definition/DVD)
Pre-orders - BLU-RAY: 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Casino, Dawn of the Dead, Death Proof, Dr No, Eastern Promises, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia With Love, The Godfather Collection, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, Hulk, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Incredible Hulk, Interview with the Vampire, Iron Man, JFK, LA Confidential, Live and Let Die, The Matrix (Ultimate Collection), The Mist, The Omen, Planet of the Apes (Evolution Collection), Planet Terror, Poltergeist, The Sixth Sense, Sleeping Beauty, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Thing, The Third Man, Thunderball, WALL E, Young Frankenstein DVD: Budd Boetticher Collection, Icons of Horror: The Hammer Collection, Popeye the Sailor Vol #3, Warner Gangster Collection Vol #4
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07-13-2005, 07:25 AM
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Cold Mountain (2003)
Play (2000)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
The English Patient (1996)
Mr. Wonderful (1993)
Truly Madly Deeply (1991)
Bolded films I've seen.
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07-13-2005, 07:56 AM
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07-13-2005, 09:52 AM
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The Talented Mr. Ripley - my favorite of Minghella's films, and one of the best films from a very good year. A brilliantly complex psychological portrait, a tragic drama, and the best "neo-Hitchcock" film I've seen (including those great Saul Bass like opening titles). Matt Damon is great, Jude Law is brilliant, and the supporting cast (particularly Cate Blanchett and Philip Seymour Hoffman) is outstanding. Patricia Highsmith's novels have been adapted by some of the best, including at least three adaptation of this novel (Clement's "Plein Soleil" being almost as brilliant as Minghella's adaptation), and I think her work is as fruitful an inspiration here as it was in Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train". Top marks, no criticisms. God, I love this movie.
The English Patient - my second favorite, but a much lesser film IMO than "Ripley". Moments of transcendence, but also a bit gloppy with the sentimentality at times. Interesting that Minghella makes us root more for the amour fou than for the not trading secrets to the Nazis. Interesting, but less than compelling. I think the film should have been a bit more conflicted than it was (felt phoney in that respect), but many of the abstract images, particularly of the desert sands, are as evocative as any of the great epics of love.
Truly Madly Deeply - it's been years since I've seen it, but I recall being completely charmed. I should check this one out again.
Cold Mountain - wtf? Maybe I was in a particularly bad mood that night... completely worthless IMO.
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07-13-2005, 11:24 AM
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ANTHONY MINGHELLA
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Like: 0
Own: 0
Rank order:
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
The English Patient (1996)
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock
"My great humility is just one of the many reasons that I am vastly superior to everyone else." - Ramrod Clerk
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07-13-2005, 12:05 PM
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My DVD Collection Film Lists: 2001 (416), 2002 (412), 2003 (374), 2004 (346), 2005 (302), 2006 (221) Film Tracking 2005 (862), 2006 (852) Last 15 Watched: (Toronto International Film Festival) Deadgirl (2008,Marcel Sarmiento, Gadi Harel) 2/5, Fear Me Not (2008,Kristian Levring) 3/5, Flame & Citron (2008,Ole Christian Madsen) 3/5, Detroit Metal City (2008,Toshio Lee) 1/5, Zift (2008,Javor Gardev) 4/5, Vinyan (2008,Fabrice Du Welz) 2/5, All Around Us (2008,Ryosuke Hashiguchi) 5/5, Linha de Passe (2008,Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas) 3/5, The Sky Crawlers (2008,Mamoru Oshii) 3/5, Achilles and the Tortoise (2008,Takeshi Kitano) 5/5, JCVD (2008,Mabrouk El Mechri) 1/5, Waltz with Bashir (2008,Ari Folman) 4/5, Plus Tard, tu Comprendras (2008,Amos Gitai) 2/5, Hamlet 2 (2008,Andrew Fleming) 4/5, Pineapple Express (2008,David Gordon Green) 3/5
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07-13-2005, 01:47 PM
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Ranking:
1. The Talented Mr. Ripley
2. The English Patient
3. Cold Mountain
Rich's comments on the three are dead on for me.
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