“Still Alice,” August 22, 2015 (2014), DVD. Oscar for Best Actress for Julianne Moore for this terribly sad story of a woman slipping into early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease. Who amongst us over 60 hasn’t lost a word or two and become scared?. For me it was “anchovies”and “eugenics”. I’m not sure why but I just couldn’t find those two words. Not in the same sentence, of course. As Alice says quite rightly “I wish it was cancer.” The loss of memory is terrifying, for it is truly the loss of self. Who among us hasn’t seen a loved one, friend or family, face this void? As an academic, as someone who lives and dies by the word, it resonated. Moore plays Alice Howland, a renowned linguist who experiences the terror and loss of AD. Her family is supportive, but each tries to go on with their lives, including her fellow-academic husband (Alec Baldwin). Alice has moments of terror and some anger, but this is not an over-the-top rage-fest. These characters are played as remarkably well adjusted and, given the circumstances, incredibly calm. Too calm?. They barely enter into the accusatory judgmentalism and name-calling that all too often rips the families asunder. In any event, it is the poignancy of the pain, the honest inevitability of the outcome, and Moore’s painfully accessible demise that make this work.