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Philip Gwynne Jones

@pgjonesvenice.bsky.social

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Author of the Nathan Sutherland Venetian mysteries. Currently investigating "The Magus of Sicily" with Nedda and Calogero. Here for Italy, music, old horror films and prog rock! https://linktr.ee/pgjonesvenice https://philipgwynnejones.com

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · Jul 3

It's here! Remember, lovely readers, buy early buy often!!

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 1h

That final scene with the closing music. Utterly haunting. It just stays with you…

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 1h

Always nice to see a piece on Eve Myles...

Actor Eve Myles looks back: ‘Early on, I was told I wasn’t the typical leading lady. Now I realise my idiosyncrasies are what make me authentic’

The Doctor Who and Torchwood star on growing up in a mining village, how Russell T Davies changed her life, the strain of playing tough characters – and sausage rolls

www.theguardian.com

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, very much so.

Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 2h

The proper one (ie Argento's)...but as to which version of that...I know it's in the Uk print, not sure about the Italian one.

Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 2h

Gotta say, I like the cut of Leo's jib!

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 2h

It was a very tough Wordle today!

Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 2h

<Goblin soundtrack>

You have been watching...

Jessica Harper
Alida Valli
Joan Bennet
Stefania Casini
AND
Udo Kier

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 2h

😀

Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 2h

I bailed out a couple of seasons previously. Shame. I had been pretty much peerless for so long.

Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 2h

And very satisfying in a "hey, I got an (almost) free dinner out of this"

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 2h

I adore "Suspiria" all the more for having a Dad's Army ending...

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 4h

No other film ending has ever gone this hard. Every time this rolls up on-screen I immediately think, “Damn right I have.”

Final shot of SUSPIRIA before the credits roll, which begin with the following:

You have been watching
"SUSPIRIA"

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 2h

It's kind of a chowder in "I wouldn't have started from here" chowder, in that I blitzed up some soup and then added a little milk. I think it would have come together better had I made it as a chowder from first principles. Still nice. I might put these up on the blog in the next couple of days.

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 4h

It really was!!

Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 4h

Blitzed the remains of last night’s soup. Diced up another fillet of John Dory, and threw it in with some Conad prawns. Splash of milk to let it down and bring it all together, tin of sweetcorn, scattering of parsley. Lyfli!

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 4h

You have to use the letters you’ve already used. So you can’t go off-piste at all. It makes some things more difficult, but it also stops you making silly mistakes. I don’t play on that mode because it does take more time 😂

Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 6h

If you play in hard mode, as Elaine does, you don’t have the option of deliberately choosing a wrong word to eliminate letters. So, yes, it does make it harder but it also means if you get “one of those” it can just be a matter of luck…

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 10h

Argh!

Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 10h

I saw “Hollander” at Fenice two years ago and came away thinking….yes, conceptually this makes sense and I can see what the director is trying to do. I also thought somebody who had never seen the opera before would have no idea of what was going on…

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 10h

Very much. She’ll always be Annie Hall age to me…

Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 16h

Got to line 4 and realised there were 3 possibilities left. So took a hit at line 5 to eliminate 2. #Wordle 1,576 6/6

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 23h

Expect photos!

Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 1d

Parsifal, to me, is entirely a mood piece. It’s an opera that - almost more than any other- can be adapted to anything.

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 1d

My wife is away next week so I am sure as hell going to make fagioli Bud Spencer.

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 1d

Agree. Bud, surely, would have been tailor-made as a comic or serious presence in gialli. A terrible waste that he didn't do more!

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 1d

So much of the outrage directed at this is coming from people who I know have never plonked their arse on a pew in their life!

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