Oliver Sacks: His Own Life 2019 M
When
1.00pm, Sat 27 Mar 2021 (114 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
About
A celebrated neurologist and one of the world’s most beloved science writers, Oliver Sacks, is given the spotlight as his life and work is explored in this new documentary by Ric Burns. A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding sense of wonder at the natural world, and the place of human beings within it. Drawing on these deeply personal reflections, as well as nearly two dozen interviews with close friends, family members, colleagues and patients, and archival material from every point in his life, this film is the story of a beloved doctor and writer who redefined our understanding of the brain and mind.
M | Mature themes, coarse language, drug use and sexual references
Production Credits
- Director: Ric Burns
- Producers: Kathryn Clinard, Leigh Howell, Bonnie Lafave
- Cinematographer/Music: Buddy Squires
- Cast: Oliver Sacks, Atul Gawande, Kate Edgar
- Editors: Chih Hsuan Liang, Li-Shin Yu, Tom Patterson
- Production Company: Zeitgeist Films
- Print Source / Rights: Madman Entertainment
- Year: 2019
- Runtime: 114 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- Sound: Dolby
- Colour: Colour
- Screening Format: DCP