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The Grande Raccordo Anulare (RGA) encircles Rome like the rings around Saturn. Or to put it another way, it’s an Italian M25, a big motorway spinning traffic around the capital’s hub. Gianfranco Rosi has used […]
L’Intrepido, directed by Gianni Amelio, was the first film of the day. It was also the one where I discovered that I had forgotten the larger of my two notepads. I could picture it sitting serenely on […]
If you died tomorrow who would come to your funeral? If you’re like me it’s not a question to which you’ve given much thought. I haven’t made a seating plan for the church, or even […]
How many actors do you need to make a gripping film? Attenborough’s Ghandi used over 300,000 extras, but in this age of austerity filmmakers are making do with much fewer. Steven Knight has just written […]
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