He shoots he scores  British director Anthony Minghella is
giving a masterclass on film soundtracks at Abbey Road next
week. He tells Nick Taylor why helping to score a film is part
of his creative process  The offices of Mirage, the production
company Anthony Minghella owns with the producer Sydney Pollack,
are in a former chapel in north London. The walls are decorated
with huge prints of Kristin Scott Thomas and Juliet Stevenson,
Jude Law and Nicole Kidman - images shot on the sets of
Minghella's films.  But in a previous life the building was the
studio of photographer Gered Mankowitz, whose pictures of the
Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix have become some of the most
iconic rock images of the 1960s.  Minghella is a writer and
director with a giant passion for music, and the ghosts that
haunt this building clearly thrill him. "The last person
Mankowitz photographed here was Leonard Cohen," he says, "which
is especially meaningful for me. Without Cohen, I don't think
I'd have started writing."  It was Leona