Researchers may have taught a chimp named Nim to communicate via sign language back in the mid-’70s, but it was humans who learned the most from the experiment, as detailed in director James Marsh‘s ...

Best extra: “Bob’s Journey,” a profile of Bob Ingersoll, the research student who became Nim’s friend and advocate NIM WAS a newborn when he was snatched from his mother at an Oklahoma primate ...

More stories by Nigel M. In a refreshing change of pace, “Project Nim” beat out awards juggernaut “The Artist” to win the Golden Tomato for best reviewed film in limited release at the 13th Annual ...

With British documentary maker James Marsh's often wild mix of genuine footage and re-creations, in lesser hands his movies could easily slip into something approaching an episode of Cops. But ...

Project Nim, a documentary film directed by James Marsh, is the story of scientist Herb Terrace and his experiment—initiated in December, 1973—to teach sign language to a chimpanzee named Nim. It is ...

Will the old Hollywood silent B&W film go all the way and sweep the awards season? It's look like that might be the case. French director Michel Hazanavicius has won the 2011 DGA Award for Outstanding ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Raised like a child, studied as an experiment ...

Two great documentaries ("Project Nim" and "Knuckle") are joined by a sensationalistic but engaging costume drama ("Anonymous") in leading today's (Feb. 7) new batch of DVD titles. Here's a rundown of ...

More stories by Nigel M. On DVD and Blu-ray this week: James Marsh’s acclaimed follow-up to his Academy Award-winning documentary “Man on Wire;” season two of Britain’s favorite import; “The Sunset ...

From the Oscar-winning team behind MAN ON WIRE comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to ...

This week on Collider's podcast, The Collision, we talk about the Planet of the Apes franchise, its flexibility, its themes, motifs, and more. PROJECT NIM DVD Review. Documentary filmmaker James Marsh ...