Entertainment For Lively Minds
"Cello"
Posted by Mark Gould on 18 March 2008 - 2:55pm.
Anthony Minghella's first feature film as a director was called "Cello" whilst in production. Anyone who has seen "Truly, Madly, Deeply" will understand why. I don't know which is the better title. It is not a great film, but it is a good one, and one that I have fond memories of, as I was living in Bristol when it was filmed. (Only the most obviously metropolitan sequences were filmed in London.)
It is also ten times better than Ghost. Here's the evidence:
- Alan Rickman vs Patrick Swayze: victory to Rickman
- Juliet Stevenson vs Demi Moore: Ms Stevenson wins by a length
- Cello vs pottery: the instrument beats the pot
- "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" vs "Unchained Melody": a tricky one, but the Walker Brothers (even imitated by Rickman and Stevenson) must beat the Righteous Brothers, no?
RIP Anthony, from one Vectis-born to another.
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The correct term
is 'Caulkhead' is it not?
It is a shame that Ghost was released at around the same time as Truly, Madly, Deeply - and the film is doomed to be compared to it again and again. We can, however, be grateful that this probably spared it a Hollywood remake.
Terribly terribly sad loss - He went far too early and the BFI has lost a great man.
Caulkhead
I hadn't come across that term. I don't qualify -- I was only born there, and my parents were overners.
crying
Juliet Stephenson crying. I miss him, I miss him, I miss him...with her nose running.
i loved that film.