Oliver Sacks
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- DirectorPenny MarshallStarsRobert De NiroRobin WilliamsJulie KavnerThe victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.
- DirectorJim KohlbergStarsLou Taylor PucciJ.K. SimmonsJulia OrmondTale of a father who struggles to bond with his estranged son Gabriel, after Gabriel suffers from a brain tumor that prevents him from forming new memories. With Gabriel unable to shed the beliefs and interests that caused their physical and emotional distance, Henry must learn to embrace his son's choices and try to connect with him through music.
- DirectorIrwin WinklerStarsVal KilmerMira SorvinoKelly McGillisA blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.
- DirectorMichael PilzThis film shot by Michael Pilz between 1964 and 2005 is a meditative documentary in which personal images can be read as the director's way to liberation in the spirit of Eastern philosophy. It is conceived as an inner pastiche which permits the message to be immediate and authentic by mosaic-like blending of motifs and time planes where it seems that the film is the only fixed point in the world because, unlike its elusive nature, it has a clear order.
- DirectorRoss HoggStarsGavin MitchellUsing only charcoal and 3 sheets of A1 paper, 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat' is an animated visualisation of Oliver Sacks' seminal work, describing a unique neurological oddity.
- DirectorLouise LockwoodStarsAlan Yentob
- DirectorLouise LockwoodStarsAlan YentobAnne BarkerTony CicoriaAlan Yentob talks to Dr. Oliver Sacks about his latest book 'Musicophila: Tales of Music and the Brain' which deals with the power of music and how it helps those with extreme neurological conditions, and meets some extraordinary people overcame their conditions with music.
- DirectorBill MorrisonDuring the early 1920s, a rare form of encephalitis lethargica swept the world, afflicting hundreds of thousands of people. Of those who survived, many were left in mysteriously frozen, nearly immobile states resembling catatonia, and presently remanded to long term institutions. By 1969, this odd illness--front page news in the 1920s--had been largely forgotten. But a young Dr. Oliver Sacks, coming to work at Beth Abraham, a 'home for incurables' in the Bronx, realized that among the hospital's inmates were eighty survivors of that original epidemic, still frozen in time, decades later. Using the new drug L-dopa, Sacks was able to 'awaken' many of them, but following an initially near-idyllic period, the patients began experiencing ever more tormenting responses to the drug.