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Daily Variety has just informed me that Anthony Minghella has died suddenly at 54.

I had the opportunity to meet Minghella on a couple of occasions while interning at Miramax back before the turn of the last century. I recall him being incredibly gracious and understated -- no small feat considering his epic THE ENGLISH PATIENT was in the midst of a tear through the Golden Globes and Academy Awards, locking up the New York-based studio's first Oscar for Best Picture.

A very talented and ambitious filmmaker doing interesting work in the studio system. A terrible shame.