Three movies into his second career, painter-turned-filmmaker Julian Schnabel has staked out distinctive thematic territory: a place where art (and its inevitable concomitant, fame), marginalization ...

Set in France and translated into French from Harwood’s script, “Diving Bell” boasts an international name cast, headed by Mathieu Almaric, who portrays Bauby mostly through voiceovers and a single ...

The Back Row Manifesto’s Incredibly Personal, Completely Subjective List of the Best Films of The Decade (2000-2009) will be unveiled over the course of the month of December. Think of it as a sort of ...

On Friday, The Dallas Opera will debut a world premiere opera at the Winspear Opera House. Originally commissioned for the 2020/21 season, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly fell through due to the ...

After lounging for more than an hour beside a hotel swimming pool with a man whose hairy legs protruded from what looked like a skirt, I had to ask, politeness be damned: What are you wearing? You'd ...

Anne Cosigny as Claude, Jean-Dominique Bauby's transcriber, shows Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) his finished work in 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.' If history is any guide, " The Diving Bell and the ...

The Dallas Opera's 2023/2024 Season has been announced! The company enters their 66th Mainstage Season with a highly anticipated world premiere production of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and ...

As the story of a man who's lost virtually all of his physical abilities, Julian Schnabel's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" would seem to be the last word in affliction movies. But it goes against ...

‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’ tells the true story of a man determined to connect and communicate after a stroke leaves him almost completely immobile. Baritone Lucas Meachem sings the lead role ...

The almost unbearably poignant memoir of Jean-Dominique Bauby, who found himself immobilized by “locked-in syndrome” after a stroke, becomes a ready-made canvas for the painterly indulgences of Julian ...

Never trust star ratings. The whole star rating system may seem like a dandy little time saver — very useful what with everybody’s busy now-a-go-go lifestyles — but you don’t get a sense of a film by ...