Imagine sitting on a narrow bench inside a dark room. Your feet are dangling into a floor of water. You’re vaguely aware of the room moving. Your ears start ringing. If you move too much, you feel the ...

"The Diving Bell and The Butterfly" is a movie based on a highly-unusual real-life story. David Edelstein gives us his take. You'd imagine a film set partly inside the head of a stroke victim who can ...

CANNES -- Taking a very different approach to "The Sea Inside," in which Javier Bardem played a suicidal quadriplegic, the movie boasts an equally fine lead performance, by Mathieu Amalric, and ...

Why are we drawn to films about people with horrible afflictions? Is it sympathy, or merely relief? Better your incurable illness, your pitiable paralysis, than mine? Does a hero suffering from a ...

MARTIN GROVE talks with "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, pictured, about the contributions a cinematographer makes to a movie and the different collaborative styles ...

DULUTH — Mysteries about Glensheen Mansion are continuously being discovered. On Thursday, July 11, one of those mysteries, a diving bell, was recovered from beneath the old boathouse where it had ...

A search for a photo of a miniature submarine took me to a government website, and as I browsed the tiny thumbnails, I saw something better than a tiny sub in the water. I found a picture of a man ...

Chestatee River Diving Bell. Hancock Park, one block north of the Dahlonega square, off Park and Warwick streets. 800-231-5543, www.dahlonega.org. While there, visit the Dahlonega Gold Museum Historic ...

Anyone who has read Jean-Dominique Bauby’s slim, extraordinary 1997 memoir “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” is likely to wonder how it could possibly be made into a movie. In 1995 Bauby, then 43 ...

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a story about a man who is trapped, but the film is so stuffed with visual poetry and moving turns of phrase that it practically takes flight. Jean-Dominique Bauby ...

Something miraculous occurred,'' says the voice of French Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby in a revelatory moment - one of so many - in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. But the miracle isn't a cure ...