“Still Alice” is a good movie in a genre often scorned and usually best avoided, the disease genre. As a superior expression of its type, it avoids the worst pitfalls, but it conforms to the basic ...
Ten years after 'Still Alice' the film’s co-writer/director tells the story of his ailing partner’s own heartbreaking struggle to survive and see their longshot project through to its glorious end. By ...
In Lisa Genova's novel Still Alice, Alice Howland, a professor of psychology at Harvard, develops early-onset Alzheimer’s at the age of 50. She begins to suspect that something is wrong when she ...
This article is part of an ongoing series, Science at the Cinema, which explores research and researchers portrayed in film. “Still Alice,” released last December, catalogs the insidious cognitive ...
Lisa Genova, the Harvard-trained neuroscientist who became nationally known in 2007 for her exploration of early onset Alzheimer's in “Still Alice,” takes on bipolar disorder in her latest book, “More ...