OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE. A film directed by Ric Burns. I recently saw this documentary film about Oliver Sacks – neurologist, observer of humanity and storyteller. Sacks died in 2015 with melanoma. The film starts, just a few months before his death, with a gathering of people close to him. It explores his life, works, humanity, personal foibles and challenges, and his huge contribution to popular understanding of variants and abnormalities of brain function. If you go to see…..