From Panic Room to Cabin Fever: films about isolation, to watch in self-isolation
Our selection of must-see movies, whether you go it alone or hunker down with family or friends
Max von Sydow: an aristocrat of cinema who made me weep
From his fateful game of chess to a moving turn in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Von Sydow was the last standard bearer of Bergman’s high-minded movie idiom
The Seventh Seal to The Exorcist: Max von Sydow – a life in pictures
Swedish actor Max von Sydow has died at the age of 90. Best known for his work with director Ingmar Bergman as well as The Exorcist, Star Wars and Game of Thrones, here we look back at his stellar career
May 2017
British screenwriters speak out on 'pathetic' treatment by Hollywood
Oscar-winner Ronald Harwood and twice-nominated William Nicholson urge industry to give writers credit they deserve
March 2015
Film blog
The film that makes me cry: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Peter Bradshaw
In the first of a new series, Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw stifles his sobs to tell us why he finds the Mathieu Amalric drama so upsetting – and why he’s not afraid to say so
December 2010
Miral – review
Freida Pinto looks uneasy in a muddled movie by Julian Schnabel, director of the outstanding Diving Bell and the Butterfly. By Peter Bradshaw
October 2010
Julian Schnabel's Polaroids: 'Smoke and mirrors and happy accident'
Julian Schnabel, the acclaimed artist and film-maker, has reinvented himself as a photographer, writes Kate Kellaway
May 2010
Cannes film festival: Mathieu Amalric
Best known for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, actor Mathieu Amalric is also a writer, director and unabashed ladies' man. He tells Catherine Shoard how it all came together in his new film
December 2008
Critics' poll 2008
Number 8: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
An astonishing story delivered with élan by director and screenwriter - it's a bonafide piece of art
November 2008
The real love story behind The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
When stroke victim Jean-Dominique Bauby's book was turned into a Bafta-winning film, the world wept for his tragic on-screen wife. But why was his lover, Florence Ben Sadoun, airbrushed from the story? She tells Janine di Giovanni a different version of events
June 2008
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
A work of art in a blink of an eye
May 2008
The intellectual villain
He is one of France's greatest contemporary actors, turning in a remarkable performance in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly last year. But, he insists, all this acting gets in the way of his serious love, directing. So why agree to star as the baddie in the latest Bond movie? By Elizabeth Day
April 2008
Julian Schnabel interviewed at the BFI Southbank
Artist-turned-director Julian Schnabel talks about his experiences making The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the agony of quitting smoking and the joy of being heckled by a drunken Sean Young
February 2008
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Philip French: Julian Schnabel's superb film recreates the courageous, unsentimental example of a visionary human being
The reality behind The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Interview: Céleste Bauby was nine when her father, Jean-Dominique, died, two years after a devastating stroke. Now his celebrated memoir is a film, and she must confront a side to him she never knew
Guardian interviews at the BFI
Julian Schnabel
Guardian interviews at the BFI
Video: Guardian interview with Julian Schnabel at BFI Southbank
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
January 2008
'My mind takes a flight': extract from The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Extract from Jean-Dominique Bauby’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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