Venice in film : Anonimo Veneziano
I know it’s fondly remembered but – whisper it – Anonimo Veneziano really isn’t a very good film. The plot,
Living and Writing in Venice
I know it’s fondly remembered but – whisper it – Anonimo Veneziano really isn’t a very good film. The plot,
It’s Saturday night, and I’ve got ten scallops from the fishmonger on Giudecca waiting to be cooked. But what am
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