Criminal underworld

Hmm, this is interesting: Anthony Minghella's new film, Breaking And Entering, is to be scored by Underworld. What a curious combination. Apart from Truly, Madly, Deeply and, to a lesser extent, The Talented Mr. Ripley I'm not a huge fan of Minghella's films. The English Patient, in particular, ranks among my top ten most hated films of all time: bloated, trivial, superficial, sentimental; an example of style over content labouring under delusions of grandeur, the mistaken belief that sumptuous photography and design equates to profundity and grand artistic achievement: David Lean Syndrome, perhaps.

But he does undeniably have a good eye and is, judging from interviews, an intelligent and nice man. He has returned to London to make his new film, "a story of theft, both criminal and emotional". Despite my feelings towards Minghella's back catalogue, this sounds like an interesting proposition.

Underworld are one of my favourite bands and, like Orbital before them, I've always thought that their style of urban electronica, ambient and harsh by turns, has always had an inherrently cinematic quality so it will be interesting to see how this project works out.

It's also about time Underworld toured the UK again as it has been far too long since I've gone mental to Moaner (which is my absolute, all time favourite live show closing tune - beating even Orbital's Chime).