PREVIEW: Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

(as themselves) Oliver Sacks, Roberto Calasso, Kate Edgar, Shane Fistell, Dr. Atul Gawande, Temple Grandin, Lowell Handler, Bill Hayes, Mark Homonoff, Anna Horovitz, Eric Kandel, Christof Koch, Robert Krulwich, Jonathan Miller, Rachel Miller, Isabelle Rapin, Jonathan Sacks, Anil Seth, Steve Silberman, Robert Silvers, Paul Theroux, Lawrence Weschler, Max Whitby

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Ric Burns (Nantucket), director; Kathryn Clinard (The Chinese Exclusion Act), Leigh Howell (Enquiring Minds: The Untold Story of the Man Behind the National Enquirer) and Bonnie Lafave (Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq), producers; Brian Keane (The Shakespeare Sessions), composer; Buddy Squires (Stonewall Uprising), cinematographer; Chih Hsuan Liang (film debut), Tom Patterson (Fall to Grace) and Li-Shin Yu (The Lord God Bird), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

The life and career of famed neurologist and author Dr. Oliver Sacks, as told through archive footage and interviews with those close to the late figure…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The extraordinary body of work by one Oliver Sacks, whose book Awakenings went on to inspire an Oscar-nominated film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams, is crammed into this celebratory look at all of his accomplishments.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

WEDNESDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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