"I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films."
Anthony Minghella
I don’t want to write about who died. However, the older you get, the more people who’s art you care for are going to die.
Yesterday, it was Anthony Minghella.
It’s difficulty to succinctly express respect for a film director, without writing pages and pages; about films that the reader may not have seen. I’ll say this:
Anthony Minghella made essential pictures. He brought career bests out of several big movie stars. He ensured that all aspects of his project were exquisite. I can’t say that about many people who make movies. Great directors who earn great respect can get caught up in their own hype and clouded by expectations, and pay for their self-conciousness in craftsmanship. Minghella only cared about moving us with beautiful and impressive filmmaking. His work deserved to be show on the biggest possible screens and hooked into the clearest possible speakers.
His last film released, Breaking and Entering, was a complicated, stirring and heart wrenching urban drama about one thing: Theft and the future and right and wrong and good and evil and crime and bad and the heart and the head, and as I learned this morning…his exit.
Is that more than one thing? Ok.
"Too many modern films let the audience be passive, as if they were saying, We're going to rock you and thrill you. We'll do everything for you."
-Anthony Minghella
JACK WHITE - Wayfaring Stranger (from Cold Mountain)
"Music was a very vibrant ingredient in my life, and I originally saw my early plays as being a format for music."
Anthony Minghella
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