Oliver Sacks his own life
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...
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| Format: | Videos DVD |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Kino Lorber : Zeitgeist Films,
[2021]
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| Edition: | Widescreen. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Originally produced in 2019. Program content: ©2020. Wide screen. Special features: Deleted scenes. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD; NTSC, Region 1; widescreen presentation; Dolby Audio, 5.1 surround, 2.0 stereo. |
| Audience: | Rating: Not rated. |
| Awards: | Hamptons International Film Festival, Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature; Film at Lincoln Center, 57th New York Film Festival 2019, official selection |
