Philip Gwynne Jones

Venice in Film : Il Mostro di Venezia

1965 was a pretty good year in Italian cinema. Leone made For a Few Dollars More. Fellini made Juliet of

So that was 2020, and, safe to say, it wasn’t the year that anyone expected. It was a year in

This is another Venetian giallo, this time from 1978, which went under the (frankly rubbish) title of The Bloodstained Shadow

It’s Monday morning, and Caroline arrives back from the market at Santa Marta with some mixed mushrooms – shiitake, pioppini,

A friend of mine recently suggested “The Venetian Affair” as a future book title. I pointed out that Andrea de

I recently came across this slightly-obscure giallo from 1972, and decided to share my thoughts on it. It rarely gets a

It’s Friday night and we’ve been for a Negroni in the campo. Dinner, therefore, needs to be something reasonably easy

Okay, it’s time for the soundtrack to ‘Venetian Gothic’! Or, at least, for a playlist of the sort of music

Two days ago I went to buy a newspaper, a sandwich and a book. Things that would have seemed banal

I went for something that approximated a proper walk the other day. I was over on Giudecca buying fish –