MedFlix: Film and the Medical Humanities

 Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie is an American documentary directed by David Guggenheim.  It covers the life of actor Michael J. Fox who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease over 30 years ag...

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2023/09/still-2003.html

 This new documentary gets intimate with its subjects, from their birth records to their body parts. The film is about being intersex, an umbrella term for people who were born with anatomic or ...

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2023/07/every-body.html

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is characterized by the obsessive idea that some aspect of one’s body or appearance is severely flawed and therefore warrants exceptional measures to hide or fix...

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2023/02/body-dysmorphic-disorder.html

“Dopesick,” Hulu’s ambitious and compelling mini-series about the role of Purdue Pharma in the opioid crisis, is built around the theme of pain. Nearly every significant character, whether ...

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2023/01/dopesick.html

"This feature-length documentary follows a man as he sheds nearly half his body weight (63.5 kg) by complete starvation under hospital observation. The film explores what brought him to so desper...

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2023/01/a-matter-of-fat.html

This was a sobering documentary about the medical device industry.  The book, The Dangers Within, by Jeanne Lenzer is an important companion piece.  It is well-worth watching. In The Bleeding...

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-bleeding-edge.html

CODA is a 2021 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film that follows a hearing teenage girl who is a child of deaf adults (CODA for short). Written and directed by Sian Heder, the film stars Emil...

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2021/09/coda.html

DISCLOSURE, from Netflix, is an unprecedented, eye-opening look at transgender depictions in film and television, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxi...

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2021/06/disclosure.html

Follows a straight-laced high school student and her slacker best friend who, after a regrettable first sexual encounter, have 24 hours to hunt down a Plan B pill in America's heartland. Review...

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2021/06/plan-b.html

The story focuses on two teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania. Faced with an unintended pregnancy and a lack of local support, Autumn and her cousin Skylar embark on a brave, fraught journey acros...

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2021/01/never-rarely-sometimes-always.html

During a series of adrenaline-fueled one-night gigs, itinerant punk-metal drummer Ruben (Riz Ahmed) begins to experience intermittent hearing loss. When a specialist tells him his condition will ...

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-sound-of-metal.html

After a tragic riding accident, young cowboy Brady (Brady Jandreau), once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, is warned that his competition days are over. Back home, Brady finds himself wonderin...

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-rider.html

This is a delightful movie about a tough topic.  For a precis, see Wikipedia .  "26-year-old Louisa Clark is a happy, outgoing woman who lives with and supports her working-class family. After ...

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2018/05/me-before-you.html

This is a moving, touching, funny film about a 10 year-old boy with a congenital facial deformity.  Although the name of his disorder is not given in the film, it is most likely Treacher-Collins...

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2017/11/wonder-2017.html

This is an important movie that deals with diversity, cultural issues, health and health care.  It is the true story of a Pakistani-American stand-up comedian and his writer girlfriend (pictured...

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-big-sick-2017.html

(from The Guardian 12 May 2016) With this movie Ken Loach establishes himself yet further as the John Bunyan of contemporary British cinema. Based on research and interviews by the screenwriter P...

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2017/06/i-am-daniel-blake.html

This looks like a fascinating HBO documentary. Trailer .  It was reviewed in the NY Times on June 5th.

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2017/06/if-you-are-not-in-rhe-obiteat-breakfast.html

The Eduardo Garcia Story Charged, a feature length documentary film, tells the story of Eduardo Garcia who was as shocked with 2400 volts of electricity in a freak incident deep in Montana’s ...

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2017/06/charged-2017.html

We saw UnRest at a local film festival yesterday.  It is the story of Jennifer Brea , an intelligent photogenic young woman with CFS/ME  (myalagic encephalomyelitis).  This is the quintessent...

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2017/06/unrest.html

This is a brutally candid documentary about the R&B singer, Sharon Jones, who died in November 2016 from pancreatic cancer.  It is an engaging and sad story that hints at the chaos of cancer and...

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2016/11/miss-sharon-jones-2016.html

The story centers on chronic pain sufferer Claire (Aniston) as she struggles to come to terms, not only with the aftermath of the car accident that killed her son and left her partially disabled ...

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2016/10/cake-2014.html

--> Forks Over Knives (2011) is an American activist film that advocates a low-fat, whole-food, plant-based diet as a way to avoid or reverse several chronic diseases. The film recommends a v...

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--> The film is set in the mind of a young girl named Riley Andersen, where five personified emotions - Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust try to lead her through life as her parents move f...

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2016/05/inside-out-2015.html

Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes profiles Harvard swimmer Schuyler Bailar, who may be the first openly transgender male athlete to compete in a NCAA Division I men's sport.

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2016/04/switching-teans.html

A Williams student, Ananya Mayukha, alerted us to an Economist video, 24 and Ready to Die , that focuses on Assisted Suicide Belgique. At 22 minutes, it is well-worth watching. 24 yo subject...

http://medflix.blogspot.com/2016/01/assisted-suicide-in-belgium.html