Last Night's Telly: 9/7/08 - Imagine / True Stories

Imagine: Love, Loss And Anthony Minghella, BBC1
True Stories: Café de los Maestros, More 4

They looked more than a little similar, Alan Yentob and Anthony Minghella, as the former paid tribute to the latter, the director and writer whose sudden death in March came just days before the premiere of his last film for TV, The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency. But Yentob was also a fitting person to eulogise his friend, having commissioned Minghella's first feature film for the BBC in 1990, Truly Madly Deeply.

The sense of an almost film-like appropriateness didn't end there, as that classic film was itself centred on a man who had died. And cutting between Juliet Stevenson as the character mourning Alan Rickman, and the actress – barely changed 18 years later – as herself mourning Minghella, was strange, but somehow seemed right.

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The Scotsman.