The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday
All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. In addition to the titles below, you can now rent or own the fourth season of Beverly Hills 90210, which — according to Netflix and my memory—includes moments like Andrea finding out she's pregnant and Brandon meeting Bill Clinton!
Announcing the Winners: The 2008 Independent Spirit Awards
Juno, I'm Not There, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly were big winners at Saturday's beachy, laid-back Independent Spirit Awards, which recognized the year's best independent films. Juno won awards for Best Feature, Best Actress, and Best First Screenplay, while Diving Bell won awards for Best Director and Best Cinematography — a precursor to tomorrow's Oscars?
Meanwhile, Cate Blanchett won an acting award for I'm Not There, and the film also received the Robert Altman Award, which recognizes an outstanding ensemble cast.
The BAFTA Awards: The Winners
There were smiles all round on Sunday night, as the British Academy of Film and Television award winners were announced in London. Jonathan Ross presented the award ceremony, in place of the familiar Stephen Fry, and the gongs were split fairly evenly over the best films of last year. Out of its massive haul of fourteen nominations, Atonement picked up only two awards – although one of those was the top award of Best Film, and La Vie En Rose picked up four awards.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Dazzlingly Imagined
Every year there is a foreign/arthouse film that has critics raving and award committees atwitter. You know you ought to see it, but you can’t quite find the right moment to check it out. Before you know it, one of the best movies of the year becomes destined for the film version of purgatory — your Waitflix Queue.
Movie Preview: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, a film adaptation of the French memoir Le Scaphandre et le Papillon, has been getting tons of buzz ever since it premiered at Cannes last year, and that buzz only increased with the two wins the Diving Bell garnered last night at the Golden Globes. Yet many people don't know a thing about it, so in honor of the movie's Best Foreign Language Film win and Julian Schnabel nabbing Best Director, check out the trailer for Diving Bell after the jump.
The story follows Jean-Dominique Bauby's life after he suffers a massive stroke at the age of 43, leaving him with the condition "locked-in syndrome."
Announcing the Winners: The 2008 Golden Globe Awards
The dramatically scaled-back Golden Globe Awards spread things around Sunday night, with Atonement, Sweeney Todd, No Country for Old Men, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly each taking home two awards.
Atonement and Sweeney Todd nabbed the night's biggest prizes, for the Best Dramatic Picture and Best Musical or Comedy Picture; Atonement also won for Best Original Score, while Johnny Depp won the Best Actor: Comedy or Musical prize. Diving Bell took home awards for Best Foreign Language Picture and Best Director for Julian Schnabel.
Adrien, Petra, and Chloë Are Divining
Adrien, Petra, and Chloë were all out in NYC last night for the premiere of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Petra looked like she was ready for the cabaret, while Adrien was all about quietly slipping his hand into his girlfriend's dress. Scandalous.
Other Search Results
What To Sky+: Saturday
- BBC1 has Robin Hood
- ITV1 has Britain's Got Talent and Hell's Kitchen
- ITV2 has Britain's Got More Talent
- Ch4 has The Good Girl
- Sky Indie has The DIving Bell and the Butterfly, Sky Premiere has Drillbit Taylor
- Film4 has Mean Girls
What To Sky+: Thursday
- BBC2 has Great British Menu
- BBC4 has I've Never Seen Star Wars with Hugh Dennis
- ITV1 has The Truth About Online Anorexia
- ITV2 has American Idol and The Justin Lee Collins Show
- Ch4 has Willie's Chocolate Revolution and Around the World in 80 Trades
- E4 has My Name Is Earl and The Inbetweeners More4 has ER and Brothers and Sisters
- Five has The Mentalist
- Living has Jade: With Love and Grey's Anatomy
- Sky1 has Law & Order
- Sky Drama has The Illusionist Sky Indie has The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly Sky Sci-Fi/Horror has Disturbia
TV Tonight: House, Guest-Starring Mos Def
There's a pretty interesting episode of House coming up tonight, for a couple of reasons: Its guest star and its unique style. The episode, called "Locked In," stars Mos Def as a patient diagnosed with locked-in syndrome, the same affliction spotlighted in the movie The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
The episode is filmed in a similar style to that movie, with scenes shot from the patient's perspective.
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