Crimson Kimono | Screen Sirens, Songbirds and Femme Fatales
Anna Stelmakh
Window to Neverland
The Illustrators: Tove Jansson , authored by Paul Gravett, is part of the Thames & Hudson illustrator series with Quentin Blake as consultant. “A creative force, drawing and writing naturally from infancy with her parents’ complete encouragement, the grown-up Jansson was to become a painter, illustrator, cartoonist, stage designer and muralist, as well as an author of memoir, fiction, children’s books and plays. The marvel was that she shone at them all.” The book captures the spark behind Jansson’s creativ
Alice nel paese delle meraviglie Alice nel paese delle meraviglie, by Lewis Caroll. What made me buy this Italian version of Alice in Wonderland this summer from a little bookshop in Siena is that it is illustrated by Salvador Dalí. It’s a collector’s book, for anyone who loves illustration, books, art, and to keep the marvel of life and of dreaming alive.
My Friend Maigret , by Georges Simenon, a Penguin Clothbound Classic. I started to read Simenon only after I had seen dozens of films adapted from his novels. Akira Kurosawa paid homage to Simenon with his Stray Dog , Bertrand Tavernier’s The Clockmaker (L’horloger de Saint-Paul) is an expertly crafted adaption of a Simenon novel, and Jean Gabin played France’s most celebrated home-grown detective character Jules Maigret multiple times. But the film that finally prompted me to read his works was Claude Chab
Crimson Kimono | Screen Sirens, Songbirds and Femme Fatales
Anna Stelmakh
Window to Neverland