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A Surviving “Witness” At Center Of Project Nim Signs Displeasure
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A Surviving “Witness” At Center Of Project Nim Signs Displeasure
Saturday, July 9th, 2011Critics Roundup — July 7
Thursday, July 7th, 2011Horrible Bosses |||||Red
Zookeeper |Red||||Red
Septien (NY) ||||Green|
Project Nim (limited) |Green||Green|Green|Green
The Sleeping Beauty (limited) |||||
Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest (limited) |||Yellow||
John Carpenter’s The Ward |Yellow||||
Sundance Review: Project Nim
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
With Man on Wire, director James Marsh took a story that necessitated being pieced together with reflective interviews and archival footage of past events and wove it all together into a cohesive whole that resonated powerfully as it told the history of Phillipe Petit, a daredevil who pulled off a number of dangerous and unbelievable stunts, most notably stringing a wire between the twin towers of the World Trade Center, then under construction, and walking across it.
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Sundance Dispatch: Good News, Bad News
Friday, January 21st, 2011The good news was, I flew Southwest, where Bags Fly Free!(tm) So I was able to bring two bags. Major bonus, because that meant I could bring more boots! And a stash of food cheaper than it would cost me at The Market Formerly Known As Albertsons. The bad news was, my flight was delayed 90 minutes. The good news was, my ticket was Section B, so I scored a window seat. The bad news was, I was dozing as we landed, we had a rough landing, and I whacked the hell out of my head. It woke me right up, though. Memo to self: bring your travel pillow next time. And, we landed safely, also good news.
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HBO Acquires Sundance Opener Project Nim Pre-Fest
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011HBO Acquires All Domestic Rights To
PROJECT NIM
2011 Sundance Film Festival Opener
From Oscar®-Winning Filmmakers of MAN ON WIRE
New York, NY (Jan. 18, 2011) – HBO has acquired all U.S. rights, including theatrical, video and broadcast, to PROJECT NIM, the opening night film of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Documentary Competition, it was announced today by Sheila Nevins, president of HBO Documentary Films.
From producer Simon Chinn and director James Marsh, the Oscar®-winning team behind MAN ON WIRE (Sundance ’08 Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award), comes the extraordinary story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment that aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim’s journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature—and indeed our own—is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.
The deal was brokered by Josh Braun of Submarine Entertainment and HBO Documentary Films. HBO will be actively seeking U.S. theatrical and DVD distribution at Sundance, and will be working with Submarine and Icon Entertainment International (IEI) on these negotiations.
HBO Documentary Films, BBC Films and the UK Film Council present a Red Box Films Production in association with Passion Pictures.
Sundance Screenings:
Thursday, Jan. 20, 9:30 pm – Egyptian Theatre
PRESS – Thursday, Jan. 20, 10:00 pm – Yarrow Hotel Theatre
Friday, Jan. 21, 6:00 pm –Sundance Resort
Saturday, Jan. 22, 6:30 pm – Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden
Sunday, Jan. 23, 11:30 am – Prospector Square Theatre
Wednesday, Jan. 26, 9:00 am – Yarrow Hotel Theatre
Friday, Jan. 28, 3:30 pm – Holiday Village II
