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Oliver Sacks: His Own Life is an astonishingly detailed and intellectually stimulating documentary directed by Ric Burns.
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“Oliver Sacks: His Own Life,” Ric Burns’ majestic documentary, covers all eight decades of the unconventional physician’s life but is rooted in the final months before his death of cancer in 2015 at the age of 82.
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Ric Burns, director of the film Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, joins Ira to talk about the life and legacy of Oliver Sacks.
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The poignant documentary Oliver Sacks: His Own Life was released on Kino Marquee and Film Forum Virtual Cinema on September 23rd.
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A new documentary, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, chronicles the late neurologist's efforts to understand perception, memory, and consciousness.
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“I’m an inveterate storyteller,” confesses the celebrated neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks at the start of Oliver Sacks: His Own Life.
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Sacks’ life was as storied as his career in medicine, and he’s the subject of filmmaker Ric Burns’ 2019 documentary Oliver Sacks: His Own Life.
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All this and more are revealed in a new documentary film from director Ric Burns, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, opening in virtual theaters today.
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Biographical documentaries rarely come with this kind of a built-in emotional hook: The active participation of the subject, fully aware of the imminent end of his life.
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Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, directed by Ric Burns, goes way beyond pandemics to tell about Sacks through his own words, recollections of family and friends and archival materials.
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Documentarian Ric Burns captures celebrated Jewish MD’s final days in a meditation on Sacks’s Orthodox youth, tumultuous career and acceptance of mortality.
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Renowned neurologist and literary giant Oliver Sacks is posthumously celebrated in this profound, highly engaging, deeply personal memoir.
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Burns explores Sacks’ full legacy in his new film Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, debuting virtually today on the virtual cinema platform Kino Marquee and Film Forum virtual cinema.
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In Ric Burns’ captivating new documentary Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, each of those characteristics are highlighted, along with others, into a seamless timeline of his life.
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Ric Burns’s “Oliver Sacks: His Own Life” premiered in Telluride in 2019 in advance of a 2020 release by Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber. It takes an intimate look at the legendary British neurologist and storyteller who inspired the 1973 film “Awakenings.”
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Early in the film, Sacks tells us that he is equally a writer and a doctor, and we can see how each plays a part in his understanding of his patients.
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Director Ric Burns watches Oliver Sacks, the famous neurologist and writer who studied and wrote about people with neurological differences, as he tells the story of his life, from childhood until filming the documentary at the beginning of 2015.
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A portrait of the poetic neurologist of 'Awakenings,' shot at the end of his life, takes a tender and thrilling look at the sacred demons that drove him.
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Author and neurologist Oliver Sacks, best known for inspiring the Robin Williams-Robert De Niro movie 'Awakenings,' is profiled in this documentary…
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Director Ric Burns interviews Oliver Sacks, the late renowned neurologist in Oliver Sacks: His Own Life.
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