From Brookline to Brooklyn: ‘Science on Screen’ comes to BAM
For the second year in a row, BAMcinematek will take part in “Science on Screen” on Monday, March 31, when it will show “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” featuring Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey as an estranged couple who have each other erased from their memories – only to fall in love again.
The film will be followed by a discussion on emotion and memory by Joseph LeDoux, director of the Emotional Brain Institute at New York University.
A film accompanied by a talk by a scientist is what the program, which has been funded for the last four years by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, will be presenting in 17 cities. The films, explains Cheryl White of the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, Mass., which started the program in 2005, aren’t all “strict science documentaries,” but all tie in to science in some way.