Anthony Minghella has died at 54 - what a great loss to film-making

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and his family of course. How sad. Such great films as The English Patient and he was just about to start filming a full series of the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency.

oh gosh. What happened to him? I was never a fan, but apprecaited his contribution to film making.

gosh that's unexpected. so sad. i was just thinking about him earlier today for some bizarre reason. do we know what happened?

gosh thats so young.

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very sad

How sad. I loved Truly, Madly, Deeply.

We watched him on The Culture Show on Saturday, 54 is incredibly young.

Doesn't his son write Robin Hood?

oh dear, that's awful.

No explanation given as to how he died.

Films included:

Breaking and Entering
Cold Mountain
Play
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The English Patient
Mr Wonderful
Truly Madly Deeply

and wrote some episodes of Grange Hill!

I loved all his films. Truly special. How very very sad.

I'm pretty sad too, I'm in the middle of writing an essay about his radio play, Cigarettes and Chocolate.

He was a wonderful writer.

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I have just heard this too - and am really shocked. Apparently, it was complications (haemorrhage) following routine surgery. I think the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency starts next week on tv.

Gosh how sad. Very talented man

pruners, i agree; the suddeness of death when young in that film was amazingly captured - v v emotional and raw - and seems weird to think about now in light of Minghella's life horribly cut short.

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What a loss!

And so suddenly, too.

such sad and unexpected news. I was a huge fan of his.

Just heard this too
No 1 ladies detective agency is starting on BBC over easter.

Loved Truly Madly Deeply too - great shots of the South Bank and Juliet Stevenson is brilliant.

He had an operation last week to remove a lump on his neck and the op went fine but then he had an unexpected, and fatal, haemorrhage this morning. What a shock for his family.

What dreadful news.

I adore Truly Madly Deeply. I first watched the film when I was a teenager and hadn't experienced love (apart from my friends and family iyswim) yet, but still found the film gut renching and so emotionally raw. I still do, and it gets worse as I get older.

What a loss.

Good lord. I've been out and about all day and only just seen this. A loss all round.

54. Eek.

Very sad this. A talented man.