TRIBECA TALKS AT HOME: OLIVER SACKS
Double Feature of AWAKENINGS and OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE
Celebrating 30th anniversary of Awakenings, and the life of Oliver Sacks
In honor of the 30th anniversary of 1990’s AWAKENINGS and in celebration of late legendary neurologist Oliver Sacks, Tribeca Talks At Home is delivering a must-see double feature: Penny Marshall's AWAKENINGS, based on Oliver Sacks' novel and starring Robert De Niro and Robin William; and OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE, Ric Burns' moving documentary about the life and legacy of the famed neurologist.
On Monday, December 28 beginning at 1:00 p.m. EST, Tribeca Talks At Home will mark the 30th anniversary of the film AWAKENINGS with a conversation with Robert De Niro (who played the lead role of Leonard Lowe), Kate Edgar (Oliver Sack’s long-time editor, friend and colleague), Walter Parkes (the film’s producer), and Ric Burns (the director of the new documentary, OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE). De Niro was nominated for an Academy Award for his extraordinary performance as a man who is “awakened” after spending decades in a coma-like state. The conversation will go live at: https://www.tribecafilm.com/festival/tribeca-talks-at-home
These events are made possible in part by HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, a mission-driven production studio dedicated to sharing stories about science and scientists.
About AWAKENINGS
The story of a doctor's extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in a Bronx hospital. Speculating that their rigidity may be akin to an extreme form of Parkinsonism, he seeks permission from his skeptical superiors to treat them with L-dopa, a drug that was used to treat Parkinson's disease at the time.
About OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller, as he shares intimate details of his battles with drug addiction, homophobia, and a medical establishment that accepted his work only decades after the fact. Sacks, known for his literary works Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, was a fearless explorer of unknown cognitive worlds who helped redefine our understanding of the brain and mind, the diversity of human experience, and our shared humanity. The film features exclusive interviews with Sacks conducted just weeks after he received a terminal diagnosis, and months prior to his death in August 2015.
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
- Year2019
- Runtime114 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorRic Burns
- ProducerLeigh Howell, Bonnie Lafave, Kathryn Clinard
- CinematographerBuddy Squires, A.S.C.
- EditorLi-Shin Yu, Tom Patterson with Chih Hsuan Liang
TRIBECA TALKS AT HOME: OLIVER SACKS
Double Feature of AWAKENINGS and OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE
Celebrating 30th anniversary of Awakenings, and the life of Oliver Sacks
In honor of the 30th anniversary of 1990’s AWAKENINGS and in celebration of late legendary neurologist Oliver Sacks, Tribeca Talks At Home is delivering a must-see double feature: Penny Marshall's AWAKENINGS, based on Oliver Sacks' novel and starring Robert De Niro and Robin William; and OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE, Ric Burns' moving documentary about the life and legacy of the famed neurologist.
On Monday, December 28 beginning at 1:00 p.m. EST, Tribeca Talks At Home will mark the 30th anniversary of the film AWAKENINGS with a conversation with Robert De Niro (who played the lead role of Leonard Lowe), Kate Edgar (Oliver Sack’s long-time editor, friend and colleague), Walter Parkes (the film’s producer), and Ric Burns (the director of the new documentary, OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE). De Niro was nominated for an Academy Award for his extraordinary performance as a man who is “awakened” after spending decades in a coma-like state. The conversation will go live at: https://www.tribecafilm.com/festival/tribeca-talks-at-home
These events are made possible in part by HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, a mission-driven production studio dedicated to sharing stories about science and scientists.
About AWAKENINGS
The story of a doctor's extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in a Bronx hospital. Speculating that their rigidity may be akin to an extreme form of Parkinsonism, he seeks permission from his skeptical superiors to treat them with L-dopa, a drug that was used to treat Parkinson's disease at the time.
About OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller, as he shares intimate details of his battles with drug addiction, homophobia, and a medical establishment that accepted his work only decades after the fact. Sacks, known for his literary works Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, was a fearless explorer of unknown cognitive worlds who helped redefine our understanding of the brain and mind, the diversity of human experience, and our shared humanity. The film features exclusive interviews with Sacks conducted just weeks after he received a terminal diagnosis, and months prior to his death in August 2015.
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
- Year2019
- Runtime114 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorRic Burns
- ProducerLeigh Howell, Bonnie Lafave, Kathryn Clinard
- CinematographerBuddy Squires, A.S.C.
- EditorLi-Shin Yu, Tom Patterson with Chih Hsuan Liang