Friday, November 30 2007
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le Papillon)
The movie follows the outline of Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir, not only recounting his former, super-glam playboy life, but also reckoning with his current condition, asserting a self without speech or gesture.
Wednesday, November 28 2007
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Diving Bell feels like another world and visually, it looks like no other film.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Before Night Falls (2000)
A faithful filmic adaptation of Arenas' memoir could easily take six hours and still not capture the full impact of the book. Painter-turned-director Julian Schnabel ('Basquiat') consciously diverges from the traditional school of literary adaptation.




































