Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

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Tuesday, February 18 at 7:10 PM

Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center

General Audience Tickets on Sale February 10

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Paul Wolpe, Ph.D.

Director of the Center for Ethics, Emory University
Michael Morris

Publisher, Atlanta Jewish Times

Wednesday, February 19 at 2:35 PM

UA Tara Cinemas

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Gregory S. Berns, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor of Neuroeconomics and Director of the Center for Neuropolicy and Facility for Education and Research in Neuroscience (FERN), Emory University
Dave Schechter

Journalist, Atlanta Jewish Times

Saturday, February 22 at 5:50 PM

UA Tara Cinemas

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Barry Avrich

Director, Producer

About The Film

The foremost chronicler of the human mind, renowned neurologist and literary giant Oliver Sacks is posthumously celebrated in this profound, highly engaging, deeply personal memoir. Known to many by the semibiographical Robin Williams movie Awakenings, British-born Sacks captured the public imagination with his eloquent writings on cognitive disorders and the splendors of the natural world. Filmmaker Ric Burns candidly addresses Sacks’ battles with drug addiction, homophobia, and a medical establishment that long shunned his pioneering work. Based largely on interviews shot just after his terminal diagnosis, Sacks is honest and expressive as he comes to terms with the meaning of his existence, and his imminent death.