The latest film Oscar winner James Marsh ("Man on Wire") , "Project Nim," chronicles a Columbia University professor's ill-fated attempt to raise a chimp like a human baby, in an effort to teach it ...

Humans are often thought to be the only animals capable of language. But it's difficult to prove a negative like this because we'll never definitively know the subjective interior monologues of other ...

Not every homo sapiens who sees Project Nim will be moved to pledge membership to PETA. Still, this documentary biopic of the ’70s chimp picked to endure an “experiment” in simian sign language and ...

This is one of those weeks when going to the movies makes you wonder about the movie industry's future. Horrible Bosses is a great title for a not-great raunchy comedy. But let me tell you about ...

PARK CITY, Utah (Hollywood Reporter) - After weaving an audacious high-wire stunt into an inspiring account of artistic endeavor in his Oscar-winning "Man on Wire," James Marsh again proves himself a ...

The 2011 Sundance Film Festival is heading towards its final weekend, with the awards ceremony capping things off on Sunday night, and attendees are starting to head home, nursing hangovers and ski ...

PROJECT NIM: Nim Chimpsky is a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a New York City brownstone on the upper West Side in the 1970s.

CHATHAM — The gift of memory is not without its pain. Following the area premiere of documentary “Project Nim,” Joyce Butler, Bill Tynan and Bob Ingersoll shared their first-hand experiences of ...

Watch a clip from "Project Nim," a film that recounts a 1970s experiment that aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised like a human child. Courtesy Roadside ...

PARK CITY, Utah (Hollywood Reporter) - After weaving an audacious high-wire stunt into an inspiring account of artistic endeavour in his Oscar-winning "Man on Wire," James Marsh again proves himself a ...

CHATHAM — The gift of memory is not without its pain. Following the area premiere of the documentary “Project Nim,” Joyce Butler, Bill Tynan and Bob Ingersoll shared their first-hand experiences of ...