![]() Rothwell speaks volumes with this glorious film, winner of the Audience Award in the World Cinema Documentary category at Sundance 2020. ![]() ![]() The striking scenes impress, open the eyes and often coincide with the words of Naoki's book. These are young people who experience reality in different ways and who have learned to express themselves, with the help of friends and family. With his documentary of the same name, award-winning filmmaker Jerry Rothwell uses the power of cinema and the insights drawn from the book to provide intimate portraits of five remarkable non-speaking autistic young people from various parts of the world. ![]() In 2007, the 13-year-old Japanese boy Naoki Higashida wrote the bestseller ‘The Reason I Jump’, in which he gave extraordinary insight into his experience as a non-speaking child with autism. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Wilczek, who is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT, has since made groundbreaking contributions to our fundamental understanding of the physical world, for which he has been widely recognized, most notably in 2004 with the Nobel Prize in Physics, which he shared with physicists David Gross and David Politzer. In his new book, “Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality,” published today by Penguin Press, Wilczek writes that the lessons were a revelation: “To experience the deep harmony between two different universes - the universe of beautiful ideas and the universe of physical behavior - was for me a kind of spiritual awakening. He had decided to sit in on a class by physics professor Peter Freund, who, with a zeal “bordering on rapture,” led students through mathematical theories of symmetry and ways in which these theories can predict behaviors in the physical world. ![]() It was during this turbulent time that Wilczek found unexpected comfort, and a new understanding of the world, in mathematics. At the University of Chicago, where Frank Wilczek was an undergraduate, regularly scheduled classes were “improvised and semivoluntary” amid the turmoil, as he recalls. ![]() In the spring of 1970, colleges across the country erupted with student protests in response to the Vietnam War and the National Guard’s shooting of student demonstrators at Kent State University. ![]() ![]() This timeless story of Bathsheba’s choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love – as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance. The Thomas Hardy adaptation is a collaboration between British production company DNA films, Fox Searchlight and BBC Films and was released in cinemas in May 2015.īased on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan), who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts), a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching wilfulness Frank Troy (Tom Sturridge), a handsome and reckless Sergeant and William Boldwood (Michael Sheen), a prosperous and mature bachelor. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dorset’s rustic setting forms the backdrop for director Thomas Vinterberg’s adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 1874 novel, Far From the Madding Crowd. ![]() |