There's a solid argument that Julian Schnabel is a better director than artist. (Nuance, it seems, is something that comes with age.) The eighties luminary cements his reputation with The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the true story of Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, paralyzed following a stroke, dictated his memoirs by blinking his left eye. The film's art direction is stunning, but what's really remarkable is how it refuses to indulge "locked-in syndrome" with the sentimentality that could have easily made it resemble a Lifetime special. The DVD, out today, comes with a making-of doc, commentary from Schnabel, and an English-language audio option—presumably for those who prefer to eat their hamburgers with Freedom fries.