Posted in film, tagged Diminished Capacity, films and dementia, forgetting on July 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Diminished Capacity, with Alan Alda and Matthew Broderick playing uncle and nephew (respectively) with matching memory problems, is in limited release. The NYT’s was lukewarm…I’ll write my own review after the film makes its way to Milwaukee…
Posted in books, cultural phenom, film, public education, tagged alzheimer's, books, David Shenk, dementia, films, The Forgetting on June 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Looks like PBS will be rebroadcasting The Forgetting this summer.
I have mixed feelings.
On the one hand, the film certainly has been a powerful tool for raising awareness. The local feeds afterward, which feature more nuanced discussions of the experience of dementia, are very informative and moving.
But the film itself is pure tragic narrative. [...]
Posted in cultural phenom, film, public education, tagged alzheimer's, alzheimer's demographics, Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter, Deborah HOffman, dementia, fear, film and dementia on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »
I was sure that when I turned in the final copy of the book to the publisher on Tuesday, that it was already out of date. I’d just given two talks at chapters of the Alzheimer’s Association, and the audiences really got what I was saying. We can no longer raise awareness of Alzheimer’s with [...]
Posted in cultural phenom, film, tagged alzheimer's, film and dementia, forgetting on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve noticed a ton of traffic searching for info on film and forgetting. I am covering this pretty extensively in the book, so I thought I’d share some of the types/lists of films.
There are films that directly address dementia and aging (Iris, Away From Her, the Notebook, Aurora Borealis, Diminished Capacity etc.). There are films [...]
Posted in film, tagged Diminished Capacity, films on dementia, films on memory loss on April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I went to update my list of films about dementia in the book (my new deadline for final copy is May 1st!), and I found out that Diminished Capacity, the film about memory loss and dementia (with Matthew Broderick and Alan Alda) that played at Sundance this year, has been picked up by IFC. Looks [...]
Posted in books, cultural phenom, film, public education, tagged David Shenk, dementia, short films on Alzheimer's, The Forgetting on March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There are 4 new short “pocket” films about Alzheimer’s disease out and available for open use. They are made by the team that brought us The Forgetting (the film and book). David Shenk, author of The Forgetting, wrote and directed the pieces. Naomi Boak (exec. producer of the Forgetting), Dr. Steven [...]
Posted in cultural phenom, film, tagged alzheimer's, dementia, Jon Stewart, Julie Christie, memory loss, Oscars on February 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
With Julie Christie up for Best Actress at the Oscars last night, you knew there was going to be an Alzheimer’s joke. Remarkably, host Jon Stewart found a way to make a joke that wasn’t at the expense of people with dementia. When he mentioned Julie Christie’s nomination, he said “a [...]
Posted in cultural phenom, film, tagged dementia, Julie Christie, forgetting, Screen Actors Guild award, laughter and Alzheimer's, senior moments on February 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There’s a brewhaha over Julie Christie’s little throw-away line after she accepted the Screen Actor’s Guild Award for Best Actress. Apparently, she made a joke about forgetting to name some of the people she should have thanked. The article quotes Peter Braun, who runs the California Southland chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association who said: [...]
Posted in film, tagged dementia, Diminished Capacity, film on January 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Looks like there’s another new film that tackles the dementia experience. Diminished Capacity,directed by Terry Kinney, features Matthew Broderick, Alan Alda, and Virginia Madsen. Here’s how the Sundance Catalog describes it:
“After a concussion leaves him unfocused, short on short-term memory, and demoted from the political pages to the [...]
Posted in cultural phenom, film, tagged dementia, The Savages on January 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Finally! I went to see The Savages on MLK day. I saw it at Milwaukee’s “Downer” Theatre - named after the street, not the type of movies they show. The Savages isn’t an “upper” for sure. But it’s a sweet tale of a brother and sister who, at [...]
