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 ...

Oh, and isn’t it cute how Nim is playing with the kitten? Wait til you see him try to hump the poor feline later on. Of course, you have to go see it for that part, as well as the rest of the most ...

A clip from Project Nim shows the confusion an animal raised by humans might feel when he met someone like himself. As I fly through this really busy week, it's a good time to pick up on a few things ...

Project Nim is the new documentary about a chimpanzee raised in a human household as part of an experiment to see if chimps could learn language.... 'Project Nim': A Chimp's Very Human, Very Sad Life ...

You get a bad feeling early in Project Nim, the brilliant, traumatizing documentary by James Marsh (Man on Wire). Nim was a chimpanzee who—I can’t bring myself to use “that”—in 1973 became a test ...

Three years ago, filmmaker James Marsh’s “Man on Wire” celebrated Philippe Petite’s 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers. Working with very little existing visual material, Marsh ...

James Marsh’s new documentary, “Project Nim,” is based on a true story. So is the 1987 feature “Project X.” But in spite of their similarity in plot — a chimpanzee is taught American sign language as ...

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 ...

As I fly through this really busy week, it's a good time to pick up on a few things I've been meaning to mention and haven't gotten to. In a DVD extra from Project Nim, the chimp meets up with another ...

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 ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. The Nim of Project Nim is a chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky (a nod to ground-breaking linguist Noam Chomsky). Why? Well, the ...