William Horberg William Horberg William Horberg is an American film producer, chair of the Producers Guild of America on the East coast, and guest curator at ArtYard. His films include Anthony Minghella's adaptations of the novels "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Cold Mountain". He also produced the "Fallen Angels" series for Showtime from 1993-1995. Horberg was born in Chicago where, in his first venture into film, he owned and operated the downtown repertory Sandburg Movie Theatre from 1979 to 1981. He moved into production starting his company, FutureVision, Inc., and was a producer on Cheap Trick: Live At ChicagoFest for MTV, "Chicago
The Talented Mr. Ripley (film) Ripley" begins as an ingenious exposition of the great truth about charming people having something to hide: namely, their utter reliance on others. It ends up as a dismayingly unthrilling thriller and bafflingly unconvincing character study". In her review for the "Village Voice", Amy Taubin criticized Minghella as a "would-be art film director who never takes his eye off the box office, doesn't allow himself to become embroiled in such complexity. He turns "The Talented Mr. Ripley" into a splashy tourist trap of a movie. The effect is rather like reading "The National Enquirer" in a café overlooking the Adriatic".