By Maria Esteves – October 18, 2018 The 56th New York Film Festival Closing Night North American Premiere of AT ETERNITY’S GATE, by Academy Award nominated director Julian Schnabel commenced Friday, October 12, 2018 at Alice Tully Hall, New York. Red carpet arrivals included director Schnabel, actors Willem Dafoe, Oscar Isaac, Rupert Friend, screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, producer Jon Klik, writer Louise Kugelberg and actress Stella Schnabel. AT ETERNITY’S GATE in sele...

  Julian Schnabel strides two different worlds like a modern-day colossus. As a painter, sculptor and photographer, he has been in the A list of fine arts culture for more than 30 years. For the past decade, he has added "filmmaker extraordinaire" to his resume, becoming one of the most talked-about and lauded film artists of his generation. Painters making films is not completely new  (Leger, Kandinsky, Dali and other early modernists did make film expressions, but they wer...

 Thursday, October 18-------THE DIVIING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY, the latest film from painter-turned-director Julian Schnabel has won the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize, which will be presented at the Hamptons International Film Festival this weekend. For the 8th consecutive year, the $25,000 cash prize is being awarded to a feature-length film that explores science and technology themes in fresh, innovative ways and depicts scientists and engineers in a realistic and compelling...

Présenté en Compétition de cette 60e édition du Festival de Cannes, Le Scaphandre et le Papillon est le troisième long-métrage de Julian Schnabel, après Basquiat (1996) et Before Night Falls (2000). Il s’agit de l’adaptation du roman de Jean-Dominique Bauby, dont la vie a basculé en 1995 à la suite d’un accident vasculaire brutal. Ce journaliste, père de deux enfants, s’est retrouvé plongé dans un coma profond. Quand il en sortit, toutes ses fonctions motrices étaient détÃ...