Rather a brief and condescending obit, but the only one I could find up right now:
I was searching for a thread on this a little while ago (when the story was on the Yahoo home page). Here’s the Yahoo (AP) article. I loved his films, and particularly the way he brought back my favorite genre, costume dramas. I even forgive him for Le Divorce.
Duh!
I thoroughly enjoyed much of his work (none more than Rupert Graves and Julian Sands running nekkid through the forest, probably), but must admit that I often found his movies…
boring
THERE, I SAID IT! SUE ME! IT HAD TO BE SAID!
But certainly not to diminish his talent (and how he got “that look” for the budgets he worked with is worthy of a doctoral thesis).