Great books are notoriously resistant to adaptation, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby’s slim and elegant memoir, is indisputably a great book. It’s slim for a reason: ...

Jean-Dominique Bauby, the sybaritic, sophisticated, womanizing editor of French Elle, was 43 when he suffered a massive stroke that left him paralyzed with "locked-in syndrome." This man of the world ...

Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor of French Elle, was 43 years old when he suffered a massive stroke in 1995. The stroke left him paralyzed — except for his left eye. That tiny portal became Bauby's ...

Anne, who said, "I'd love to win this DVD as I am a home care nurse & think this movie should be shown to lots of different types of patients who need inspiration to rise to the occasion despite their ...

As books go, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera," which takes a sweeping, decades-spanning look at a love that goes unrequited for years, and Jean-Dominique Bauby's "The Diving Bell ...

It began life as a series of blinks from a dying man's left eye, became a deeply poignant, bestselling autobiography and is set to receive a clutch of film awards at the Baftas next Sunday and the ...

“When I was young I was alone a lot, and art was a place I could escape to,” writes artist-filmmaker Julian Schnabel in the introduction to a 2003 overview of his work. “What I wanted to do was find ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...