A discussion about the film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

with Julian Schnabel
in Movies, TV & Theater, Art & Design
on Friday, November 30, 2007 * * * * *

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A discussion about the film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly with director Julian Schnabel. The film is based on the memoir Le scaphandre et le papillon by journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby. It describes what his life is like after suffering a massive stroke that left him with a condition called locked-in syndrome.

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    1. Paul Silver  02/01/2008 03:13 PM Report

      Charlie pondered what questions are most revealing.

      To me what is most interesting about individuals and art is: What choices were made? How and why did you choose a particular approach or direction...

    2. K. Torres  02/01/2008 03:01 PM Report

      I have been a HUGE fan of Julian Schnabel's for years and i thought the interview was amazing. Charlie was at his best ever. He got Julian alittle disheveled which was great to watch and probably hard to accomplish. It was such a multimedia event, with the art, sprituality, Dad's poem, etc. Pure magic. The film is a must see.

    3. Amy  02/01/2008 11:49 AM Report

      Poem from Julian's dad can be downloaded here...

      http://www.thedivingbellandthebutterfly-themovie.com/

    4. Amy   02/01/2008 11:42 AM Report

      Adele Reising

      39 W 14th St, New York, 10011

      Tel: 6463361280

    5. frank stevy  02/01/2008 09:53 AM Report

      I to would like to find out more on the women he referred to in his interview ?

      he talked about an ACUPUNCTURIST \ " ADELE RISING" (sp??) reising??

      Can anyone shed some light on this ;lady or have a contact for his publicist and or himself to tell us more about her ?

    6. tevo durham  02/01/2008 02:50 AM Report

      the ACCUPUNCTURIST HE MENTIONED " ADELE RISING" (sp??) reising??

      dear charlie r and julian s-

      this was too wonderful.

      spoiled!!!

      happily spoiled, thank you for the special reading of "dad's" words...and the very beautiful slow shots on the gallery walls at the end. tonight was a sublime mix of words and pictures. a very special show from two guys who have a beautiful and unique connection.

      i felt transported into a poetic, real, and daring world, which is what happens when i watch a julian schnabel film.

    7. joey ciraco  02/01/2008 12:30 AM Report

      great show did any body catch the name of the accupuncherest that julian mentioned ??

    8. kathleen  01/31/2008 05:05 PM Report

      I LOVED this interview and went right out and saw the film. It is amazing. Mr. Schnabel is doing things in the world of art (be it film or more traditional art) that give us all deeper insights into our world today, and into the life of a consummate artist.

      Thank you Charlie, for bring us these rare and wonderful people and conversations. K

    9. kathleen  01/31/2008 05:05 PM Report

      I LOVED this interview and went right out and saw the film. It is amazing. Mr. Schnabel is doing things in the world of art (be it film or more traditional art) that give us all deeper insights into our world today, and into the life of a consummate artist.

      Thank you Charlie, for bring us these rare and wonderful people and conversations. K

    10. kathleen  01/31/2008 05:05 PM Report

      I LOVED this interview and went right out and saw the film. It is amazing. Mr. Schnabel is doing things in the world of art (be it film or more traditional art) that give us all deeper insights into our world today, and into the life of a consummate artist.

      Thank you Charlie, for bring us these rare and wonderful people and conversations. K

    11. kathleen  01/31/2008 05:05 PM Report

      I LOVED this interview and went right out and saw the film. It is amazing. Mr. Schnabel is doing things in the world of art (be it film or more traditional art) that give us all deeper insights into our world today, and into the life of a consummate artist.

      Thank you Charlie, for bring us these rare and wonderful people and conversations. K

    12. jimmy arone  01/26/2008 07:48 PM Report

      it's such a pleasure to watch this interview after experiencing, 'the diving bell and the butterfly'

      i made it a point to visit the website for the film and downloaded the piece created by julian's dad, jack. there's a lot of love there indeed.

      julian schnabel is a bear of a man with exceptional talent(s) and a great heart.

      watching the 'basquiat' interview from 96 and this most recent one for the film shows how much he has grown as an artist.

      As a husband, a father, a brother, a son, I am grateful to julian schnabel for inspiring me to do good work and live each day to the fullest.

      jimmy arone

      burbank, ca.

    13. Edward  12/08/2007 08:54 PM Report

      Might be a good film, but Julian is the worst interview subject I've ever experienced on your show Charlie, and I've seen and heard him before on your show...

    14. charles broderson  12/04/2007 12:03 AM Report

      Julian, it was an absolute pleasure to see your interview on Charlie Rose . Your film subjects have been wonderfuly chosen. My 19 yr old son asked me why you were wearing yellow eye glasses, and my memory served to explain that one of the last times we crossed paths in 1979 you had yellow hair !

    15. Cookie  12/03/2007 09:06 PM Report

      I am so glad I was able to see this - I love his paintings and hope to own a print (cant afford an original...yet)sometime soon. What a charming, thoughtful person - so warm and delightful. Exactly like the print I am longing for. The movie looks beautiful and I am so grateful to be able to listen to him talk about it...and his father. Thanks (and Tevo, your post is really nice)

    16. soulfulady  12/03/2007 08:45 PM Report

      My uncle Russell Kellogg, my mother's brother, had "locked-in" for 10 years before he finally died. Following his own massive stroke, all he could move were his eyes. As a Navy veteran of World War II, he was a patient at a VA hospital in Colorado, where he received numerous rehabilitation services, including the use of a computer light-board as a means of communication. It took him many agonizing months to learn to type out his thoughts and wishes by directing his eyes to letters on the keypad. Sadly, the first thing he said was, "I want to die." Patience was never one of his most outstanding virtues; what torture it must have been before this attribute, like a new tooth, broke through the resistance in his bodymind. Or maybe it never did. At least he had the opportunity. Some people don't get that, and those who do don't usually look at it that way. They want to die. Or we want them to die because we can't stand to see them suffer, not realizing that it is in the suffering that our finest attributes break through. Think of the acorn and the oak tree. Would the acorn choose to give itself up in order to become a mighty oak if it had a choice? Most likely, the acorn has no idea what its true potential is. We are like that. Embryos in this womblike world, here to develop not physical attributes but spiritual ones. When viewing the purpose of life as an opportunity for the development of the soul, one sees that such a condition as this is a blessing in disguise. None of us would choose such a situation, but if the result is patience, compassion, humililty, forgiveness, mercy, submission to the will of God, and other attributes which lie latent within us, we would be infinitely grateful. When we leave the body we can't take the things we have acquired with us, but we do take the attributes we acquire with us. They are what constitute our existence, in fact. No patience, no existence.

    17. voicefromthegrandstand  12/03/2007 08:33 PM Report

      I almost died - twice. I have no fear of death, its fear of life that bothers me! Dying is easy, its living that's hard. I'm grateful for the time I'm being given to find that living is as easy as dying. I think I'm getting there. Its about letting go. Good luck, everyone!

      What's the difference between 'nowhere' and 'now here'? Space. We come from 'nowhere', projecting ourselves into space where there's a 'here' and a 'there', only to discover life is neither here nor there, its everywhere and nowhere.

    18. Robert Philbin  12/03/2007 06:57 PM Report

      Excellent, passionately honest interview with an artist in search of meaning where ever life leads him, and have the luck to find it, he passes it along to the rest of us. Great stuff. Looking forward to "Diving Bell". . . "Before Night Falls" is on my top fifteen films ever list; and "Basquiat" is second only to Altman's "Vincent and Theo" in the painter-bio genre.

      Thank you.

      Robert Philbin

    19. tevo durham  12/01/2007 08:32 PM Report

      Dear Julian,

      Please post the tombstone enscription. It i s so special - and important- what I heard from you tonight, you will forgive me for requesting more!?

      thank you for connecting with all of us tonight. i hope to cross the paths you on this crazy divine planet, but if i don't - and probably i won't - what you've done means alot...what you have done reminds me of how i want to be, and how i know i am. blessings to you and yours amigo. all love and beautiful time.

    20. tevo durham  12/01/2007 12:40 AM Report

      Dear Julian,

      Please post the tombstone enscription. It i s so special - and important- what I heard from you tonight, you will forgive me for requesting more!?

      thank you for connecting with all of us tonight. i hope to cross the paths you on this crazy divine planet, but if i don't - and probably i won't - what you've done means alot...what you have done reminds me of how i want to be, and how i know i am. blessings to you and yours amigo. all love and beautiful time.