Anthony Mingella was the Oscar-winning writer/director of The English Patient, The Talented Mr Ripley, and Cold Mountain. His last feature film was Breaking and Entering. He died unexectedly in March, 2008. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...I haven’t watched many movies, but I’ve watched some movies many, many, many times. There are some movies I go back to like food – The Tree of the Wooden Clogs, I Vitelloni, Three Colours: Blue and the Taviani brothers’ movies I watch...
Anthony Mingella was the Oscar-winning writer/director of The English Patient, The Talented Mr Ripley, and Cold Mountain. His last feature film was Breaking and Entering. He died unexectedly in March, 2008. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...The Crew
I think of directing as an activity with a crew, as an activity as one of a company of people creating a film. But the conundrum is that it’s also extremely authorial in the sense that without...
Anthony Mingella was the Oscar-winning writer/director of The English Patient, The Talented Mr Ripley, and Cold Mountain. His last feature film was Breaking and Entering. He died unexectedly in March, 2008. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Pre-production is all about communication. Besides the screenplay, you have to begin sharing the images and thoughts you have in your mind about the film with your team.There’s a day when I sit down with Steve Andrews, the first assistant...
Anthony Mingella was the Oscar-winning writer/director of The English Patient, The Talented Mr Ripley, and Cold Mountain. His last feature film was Breaking and Entering. He died unexectedly in March, 2008. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...However long it took me to come to writing as an activity, that is the activity which has most defined me and still most defines me. I love writing. I find it very difficult, but it’s the time when I’m most comfortable with myself, oddly...
Anthony Mingella was the Oscar-winning writer/director of The English Patient, The Talented Mr Ripley, and Cold Mountain. His last feature film was Breaking and Entering. He died unexectedly in March, 2008. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...My clearest memories of the opportunities afforded me by a creative outlet, are connected to a piano that I had in my bedroom as a teenager. I was often a miserable teenager – extremely dislocated from my family. I grew up in a very small...
Anthony Mingella was the Oscar-winning writer/director of The English Patient, The Talented Mr Ripley, and Cold Mountain. His last feature film was Breaking and Entering. He died unexectedly in March, 2008. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Structure
Architecture, film and writing are all very connected. When you go into a room which hasn’t been decorated it looks like a mess, but actually it’s all done; it only lacks a paintbrush to make...
Anthony Mingella was the Oscar-winning writer/director of The English Patient, The Talented Mr Ripley, and Cold Mountain. His last feature film was Breaking and Entering. He died unexectedly in March, 2008. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Introduction
The term heritage film has many connotations and this chapter hopes to position a new type of heritage film that, rather than having an emphasis on the historical, will instead invoke a new type of Britishness, or in this case,...
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