Anthony Minghella
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Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse novels began a boomtime in crime fiction on television and in bookshops – and we are still feeling its effects
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Fourteen years after my kid in a coma first appeared at the kitchen table, the film – starring Jamie Dornan, Sarah Gadon and Aaron Paul – is to appear at last
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Kristin Scott Thomas: ‘The love scenes with Ralph Fiennes were like jumping naked into an icy swimming pool’
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Mark Lawson on television The director's cut: Oliver Stone's move from silver screen to small screen
Mark Lawson: The Nixon director's new American history series sees him follow in the footsteps of Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch and Steven Spielberg
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Max Minghella initially found being the son of Oscar-winner Anthony Minghella a hindrance to his acting career, but he is now proving to be a star in his own right, writes Elizabeth Day
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Bad news for moms, dads, dieticians and much-missed pets as Academy Awards call time on everlasting speeches
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Daniel Day-Lewis, Penélope Cruz, Kate Hudson and Judi Dench were in attendance for the world premiere of Rob 'Chicago' Marshall's Nine at the Odeon Leicester Square in London
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Two years after his sudden death, what may turn out be Anthony Minghella's final work, Nine – an all-star musical about a director in dilemma – is about to appear. David Thomson hymns his friend 'Ant'
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You'll find nothing but pure logic in my retrained brain
Victoria CorenVictoria Coren: Jury duty means I'm not allowed to speculate. So stand by for rational thinking
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Last week the Observer Film Quarterly published our choice of the top 25 British films of the last 25 years. In at the top: Trainspotting. A great result? Or a travesty of justice? And why no Sex Lives of the Potato Men? It's over to you
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The best British films 1984-2009: An epic love story with stunning photography and a mood of sweeping romance
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Breaking and Entering, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and Interview With the Vampire
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Jude Law and Alan Rickman among the stars down to introduce the director's films at this weekend's Minghella Movie Marathon on the Isle of Wight, marking the first anniversary of his death from cancer-related surgery
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David Thomson: The revamped format of the show worked a treat and Hugh Jackman carried off hosting duties with aplomb. And the British sweep by Slumdog Millionaire points to a shift in power away from Hollywood
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Andrew Pulver: With increasing numbers of British film directors beginning their careers in the art world, allowing public access to 50 years of art films is a terrific move
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Academy bends its rule on the maximum number of producers for a best picture nominee to allow posthumous nods
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Obituaries 2008: The Oscar-winning director died on 18 March, aged 54, following surgery. He is remembered by Jude Law who worked with him on Cold Mountain, The Talented Mr Ripley, and Breaking and Entering
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David Hare, who wrote the screenplay for The Reader, recounts the tortured journey from book to film
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The dirt on Sam Taylor-Wood's virginity | Iron Maiden's Chemical Wedding | Gorgeous George
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Elizabeth director Shekhar Kapur is to direct one of Anthony Minghella's final projects, a segment of a celluloid ode to New York
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Anthony Minghella: 1954-2008 Anthony Minghella, who died last week, was one of our greatest film-makers - but he was also someone who touched the lives of all those he met. Producer Colin Vaines pays tribute to a friend while others who admired him recall his generosity and talent
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Anthony Minghella was a great chronicler of the world - on the page and on the screen. David Thomson pays tribute to a master
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This week Atonement director Joe Wright and jazz musician Guy Barker share their memories of the Oscar-winning film-maker with me
Music blog Opera's Faustian pact: is a cinema director's vision what the genre needs?