CHICAGO – Excelsior! Comic book legend Stan Lee’s famous exclamation puts a fine point on the third and final play of Mark Pracht’s FOUR COLOR TRILOGY, “The House of Ideas,” presented by and staged at City Lit Theater in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets/details, click HOUSE OF IDEAS.
Project Nim
Film Review: Heartfelt Tale of Human Needs in ‘The Theory of Everything’
Submitted by NickHC on November 14, 2014 - 6:36pmCHICAGO – The life story of iconic physicist Stephen Hawking is given a well-deserved cinematic treatment this weekend with “The Theory of Everything,” an earnest presentation of an existence that defies the usual.
DVD Review: ‘Project Nim’ Powerfully Chronicles the Tragic Life of a Chimp
Submitted by mattmovieman on February 20, 2012 - 8:56amCHICAGO – James Marsh’s much talked-about documentary, “Project Nim,” is one of the saddest films of 2011, charting the mishandling of a chimpanzee by well-meaning but misguided humans. Nim Chimpsky was the simian subject of a widely publicized ’70s-era experiment created by Professor Herbert Terrace. His goal was to discover if a chimp could speak in complete sentences via sign language.
On WGN Radio: HollywoodChicago.com’s Adam Fendelman on ‘Horrible Bosses,’ ‘Zookeeper’
Submitted by BrianTT on July 11, 2011 - 10:09pmCHICAGO – HollywoodChicago.com publisher Adam Fendelman discusses film openings including “Horrible Bosses,” “Zookeeper,” “Project Nim” and “A Better Life” on WGN Radio on July 9, 2011 with host Bill Moller.
Film Review: Fascinating ‘Project Nim’ Chronicles Tragic Failure
Submitted by BrianTT on July 8, 2011 - 2:13pm Rating: 4.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – Human beings are an egotistical, power-hungry species. There’s simply no way around it. And if you think any differently, watch James Marsh’s “Project Nim,” a documentary about the rampant egotism of man’s manipulation of another species. Even the urge to learn and teach that’s expressed at the beginning of “Project Nim” is just a disguise for control.
