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“... his is not a realism of meaning but of reticence, of the refusal to compel reality into sense. Tag Gallagher’s biography of Rossellini is announced as the ‘first in any language’, although I believe there is one in Italian. One may want to quarrel with some of its judgments, but there is no quarrelling with its research and ...”

“... knock-off, a Carnaby Street caricature – wayward ideas replaced by winking insignia and a price tag on everything.) Weight is so stuck on his through-line map that he never stays long enough to see the strangeness of the scenes he’s passing through. (I’m tempted here by the neologism ‘tellyology’. Definition: shaping history with both eyes on a ...”