Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.

The Met's production has been transmitted live into movie theaters worldwide on March 7 2008 part of the Met's HD series and is now available on DVD. It is completely false. John's Portsmouth.

Anthony Minghella CBE (6 January 1954 – 18 March 2008) was a British film director playwright and screenwriter. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007.