* [ HARDCOVER: Us ] The woman on the train Jun 1, 2008
Or should it be The Bar on the Seine, an early Georges Simenon detective story featuring Commissaire Jules Maigret. One is a much-admired classic, the other a more forthright page-turner. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Announces Simultaneous TRUCKTOWN Deals Feb 14, 2008
Chorion's portfolio includes classic children's brands such as Mr. Men and Little Miss, Noddy, OLIVIA and The World of Eric Carle as well as the literary works of Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler and Georges Simenon, amongst others. Chorion's slate of new productions include The Mr. Men Show, airing on Cartoon Network in the US and Five in the UK beginning in February 2008; Famous Five: On the Case co-produced with Marathon Media; OLIVIA, destined for Nick Jr. in the US. Chorion's Noddy... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
If you want some more 'Hairspray' Nov 20, 2007
"Monsieur Hire" (Kino, $30): Patrice Leconte ("My Best Friend") directed this riveting 1989 French thriller based on the novel by Belgian crime novelist Georges Simenon, starring Michel Blanc and Sandrine Bonnaire. We give you our best -- 22 recipes in every hue for you to create your own beautiful meal. (Los Angeles Times)
What's new on video Nov 20, 2007
Fifteen years before director Patrice Leconte and actress Sandrine Bonnaire collaborated on "Intimate Strangers," they made this stylish 1989 psychological drama, adapted from a book by Georges Simenon. Michel Blanc plays a withdrawn tailor, who is disliked by his neighbors and is suspected by police of the murder of a young woman. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Discipline aided scholar in Iran prison Sep 11, 2007
That got her a steady supply of novels ranging from Dostoyevsky to the mystery writer Georges Simenon. Other than that, her room came with a Koran, and she decided to read it through. (International Herald Tribune)
In love with the planet Aug 25, 2007
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Obituaries in the News Aug 22, 2007
GENEVA (AP) - British-born author Magdalen Nabb, whose crime novels about a quirky Italian investigator were acclaimed by her idol Georges Simenon, has died ... Nabb said she started writing when Belgian author Georges Simenon stopped writing his acclaimed novels about French detective Jules Maigret in 1972. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
British mystery writer Nabb dies at 60 Aug 22, 2007
Nabb said she started writing when Belgian author Georges Simenon stopped writing his acclaimed novels about French detective Jules Maigret in 1972. A lifelong fan of Simenon's, Nabb struck up a correspondence with the Belgian which continued until his death in 1989. (USA Today -- Life)
City of Lights and Many Faces Jul 22, 2007
The mysteries of Georges Simenon and Henri Murger s Scenes de la Vie de Boh;me which later inspired the musical Rent all have shown Paris from her various sides. Americans have also been long-fascinated by Paris, trying to comprehend the city s mystique as well as the French temperament and approach to life. (Suite101.com)
Essential Edinburgh Jul 19, 2007
This new film by Hungarian arthouse master Bla Tarr, featuring Tilda Swinton dubbed into Hungarian, is a version, startlingly, of a Georges Simenon thriller, though Tarr never allows his narrative pace to be accelerated by anything as vulgar as robbery and murder. His visionary slowness and long, sinuous camera movements are much in evidence. (Guardian Unlimited)
Cannes gets serious| May 26, 2007
Cult Hungarian director Bela Tarr, in a grindingly slow back-and-white detective flick 'The Man From London' based on a Georges Simenon novel, probes a poor man's moral dilemma of "to steal or not to steal". Gus Van Sant, in different vein, shows a teenager who inadvertently causes a security guard to be cut in two by a passing train, mulling whether to confess in 'Paranoid Park. (iAfrica.com)
French connections May 16, 2007
Tarr's latest weighs in at a paltry two hours, and is adapted from a Georges Simenon novel. An official at a seaside railway station observes a mysterious Englishman disembark and get involved in a violent encounter with another shadowy individual. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
And Cannes created woman May 14, 2007
The one that the hardcore art-house mob will be queuing round the block for: Hungarian genius Bela Tarr (the Tarkovsky de nos jours, but way, way gloomier) offers The Man From London, an existential mystery based on a Georges Simenon novel, and starring Tilda Swinton. Also programmed out of competition are new films by Michael Moore, Michael Winterbottom and Steven Soderbergh, while the various sidebars are sufficiently crammed to suggest that critics had better keep a cool head and a tight... (Independent)
Cannes lines up American feast Apr 20, 2007
" Mexico's Carlos Reygadas returns a second time with the unusual Dutch-language Mennonite love story "Silent Light," and Iranian comicbook auteur Marjane Satrapi will compete with "Persepolis," her bigscreen adaptation of her autobiographical graphic novel (co-directed by Vincent Paronnaud).France has three competition titles: Asia Argento costumer "Une Vieille maitresse," from Catherine Breillat, known for her steamy fare; Christophe Honore's musical comedy "Les Chansons d'amour"; and American... (Variety)
Hans Koning, a prolific writer with a broad sweep, dies at 85 Apr 19, 2007
Praised by writers as varied as Georges Simenon and George Plimpton, Koning ranged from subjects as diverse as Christopher Columbus and modern Dutch painting to a series of novels, four of which were filmed, including "A Walk With Love and Death" (Simon and Schuster, 1961, reprinted by New South Books, 2005), which became the first movie to feature Anjelica Huston and was directed by her father, John. Koning was born Hans Koningsberger in Amsterdam on July 12, 1921, the grandson of the Dutch... (International Herald Tribune)
Paris- The Marais Mar 24, 2007
Closer to our own times, the writer Georges Simenon created his best-selling Inspector Maigret novels here. The Picasso Museum. (Suite101.com)
Mysteries of Identity: Mar 12, 2007
Banville has invoked, by way of explanation, late Belgian novelist Georges Simenon, who divided his few-hundred books into two categories: those starring the clever Inspector Maigret, and those he called the romans durs, the hard novels, which tend to feature stolid petit-bourgeois protagonists thrown into demimondes of violent intrigue. The difference between a Maigret novel and a romans durs, as Luc Sante has pointed out, is between the moral consolations of solved crime and the blank... (Slate)
