Project Nim: Almost Human
By Film Comment on July 8, 2011
Since James Marsh’s primate tale opens today at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center we figured it would be apropos to post Chris Norris’s article from Film Comment‘s current issue on our website. See the movie. Read the article. Eat a banana!
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