Anthony Minghella, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind "The English Patient," "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Truly Madly Deeply," has passed away at age 54, reports the BBC — no further details yet as to the cause of his death.
Minghella was a director, writer and a playwright who was also chairman of the British Film Institute. He'd just finished up filming an adaptation of "The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency," with Jill Scott as the lead, for British television. The last film of his in theaters was 2006's little-seen "Breaking and Entering," with Jude Law as an architect who gets involved with a Serbian woman (played by Juliette Binoche) after he catches her son robbing his office. Though the film was met with a mixed response from critics, it's portrait of a beautiful, vital but unromanticized segment of London was singled out for acclaim.
[Photo: Anthony Minghella on the set of "Breaking and Entering," MGM, 2006]
Update: Variety relays that Minghella "suffered a fatal hemorrhage at 5 a.m. GMT Tuesday at Charing Cross Hospital in London, where he had undergone an operation last week on a growth in his neck."
+ Director Minghella dies aged 54 (BBC)
+ Anthony Minghella dies at 54 (Variety)
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