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In memoriam: Anthony Minghella
Andrew Pulver at The Guardian's film blog offers Anthony Minghella's greatest clips.

I love Anthony Minghella's films, though there are a few I haven't seen. Among his fine adaptations of novels, The Talented Mr. Ripley stands out for having made Tom Ripley into a more compelling, but no less troubling character than he was in Patricia Highsmith's book. When it came out I remember talking to a friend who was outraged that someone should have somehow "gotten away with it" when it was abundantly clear to me that some punishments for our crimes are emphatically of our own making.

Minghella most recently appeared as Briony's interviewer at the end of Atonement which I thought in its type of film very much followed in the tracks of The English Patient. A nifty bit of casting for a director who probed so deeply into his characters.

Then there's Minghella's first film Truly, Madly, Deeply, about which I've nothing to say, because it's simply the joy and ache that it is.