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Project Nim, the latest film from Man on Wire director, James Marsh (no relation), was the benefactor of a fortuitous set of release circumstances. Marsh's film deals with a behavioral experiment performed on a chimpanzee to determine if these primates...

Not only one of the best documentaries of the year, James Marsh's (Man On Wire) Project Nim is one of the best films of the year.  Period.  Full Stop.  Need some convincing that a 30 odd years post-mortem about a...

[With Project Nim entering into limited US theatrical release tomorrow we revisit Kurt Halfyard's previous review.]Meet Nim Chimpsky, the irrepressibly cute chimpanzee snatched from his mother at birth from the Oklahoma Institute by Primate Studies by Columbia professor Herbert Terrace for a radical experiment in...

[This is a reprint of a review published at BlogCritics.org]Documentary fans will undoubtedly be highly anticipating the new film from director James Marsh, who brought us the fascinating Oscar-winning documentary Man On Wire a few years back. And thankfully Marsh doesn't disappoint...

From the director of Man on Wire and the middle chapter of the Red Riding Trilogy, James Marsh's latest film, Project Nim was the best documentary that I saw at this years HotDocs film festival.  Because (a) the film is fantastic...

[Hotdocs may have wrapped up last week, but there are a few more reviews and interviews in the queue, and James Marsh's Project Nim may have been the best film at this years festival.]Meet Nim Chimpsky, the irrepressibly cute chimpanzee snatched from...

As with Man on Wire, his previous documentary, director James Marsh brings recent history to vivid life in Project Nim, which unfolds as the saga of a lone chimp against implacable human foes.Naturally, the humans didn't mean for anything bad...