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David Sterritt | Posted 02.12.2009 | Entertainment

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David Sterritt

What riles me is the business of peddling movies on DVD after scrubbing them squeaky clean, or as we used to say in pre-digital antiquity, censoring them.

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The Painter Directs: Julian Schnabel And The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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Kimberly Brooks

I watched The Diving Bell and the Butterfly the other night. I couldn't wait to sink my eyes into what I knew would be a visual extravaganza by paint...

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Paralyzed And Free

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

Yet soon the letters flow with greater speed and within the 2 hour film, I found the pace of communication acceptable, I had slowed to Bauby's pace of living, I became content in his world as did he. Schnabel brought Bauby and me to the same place, a place of gratitude for humanity, magnified by the stillness of a body.

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