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I was so busy pretending to speak like a chimp on Monday that I completely forgot to mention this brilliant part of the behind the scenes documentary.


It's a rare treat to find a 30 minute making of special feature as engrossing - and moving - as a DVD's main release, especially when it includes a chimp sign language chart.


So here it is, in case you need another reason to buy the awesome Project Nim on DVD:

 

Project Nim, chimp sign language chart
  

If you're still not convinced (and you should be - it's one of the best documentaries of the year), read our Project Nim DVD review.

 

 
Project Nim, DVD review
Director: James Marsh
Cast: Bob Angelini, Bern Cohen, Reagan Leonard
Certificate: 12
Release Date: Monday 9th January
RRP: £15.99

Chimp is born. Chimp called Nim. Man take Nim. Man teach Nim sign. Nim learn words: Orange. Play. Hug. Steve. Nim make sentence: "Give orange Nim." "Nim eat orange." "Hug me Nim."


Nim wear jumper. Jumper is red. Nim look cute. Ivan say "Awww..."

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The shortlist for the 2012 Best Documentary Oscar has been announced. And here's a brief recap of what's wrong with the list:

 

Best Documentary 2012 Oscars Shortlist
 

 

And that's before we even get on to discussing the absence of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never...

 

 

 

Shame leads BIFA nominations with sevenShame, Tinker, Tailor, Tyrannosaur. It's been a brilliant year for indie films. And those are just the three with the most nominations in the British Independent Film Awards, which seem designed to make life as difficult as possible for everyone.


Each of those films has seven nominations each, including Best British Independent Film, Best Actor and Best Director. How on earth are we meant to choose which is best?


And then there are all the others. In second place, We Need to Talk About Kevin and Kill List both have six nominations, followed closely by Submarine with five. Meanwhile, The Awakening and Jane Eyre join the fray in the Best Actress categories, while The Guard sees Brendan Gleeson start to collect his inevitable haul of Best Actor nods.


Attack The Block's Joe Cornish and Ralph Fiennes for Coriolanus are up for Best Director, and Best Newcomer is surely destined to hang around the neck of Albatross's Jessica Brown Findlay. It's also great to see the Raindance Award mentioning Black Pond, A Thousand Kisses Deep and Acts of Godfrey. All three are rather lovely.


But are we really meant to be able to say who is better out of Senna and Project Nim? Tinker Tailor and Shame? Tyrannosaur and Submarine? How are us mere humans meant to pick? HOW? IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. THEY'RE ALL REALLY, REALLY GOOD. I HATE YOU BIFA AWARDS. YOU SUCK.

 

The awards are handed out on Sunday 4th December - and will be broadcast live on LOVEFiLM. Which is another superb decision from BIFA. Damn them.


Read on for the full list of nominations.

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Review: Project Nim

Director: James Marsh
Cast: Bob Angelini, Bern Cohen, Reagan Leonard
Certificate: 12A
Trailer

Chimp is born. Chimp called Nim. Man take Nim. Man teach Nim sign. Nim learn words: Give orange Nim. Nim eat orange. Hug me Nim.


Nim wear jumper. Jumper is red. Nim look cute. Ivan say "awww".


We meet Steph. Steph raise Nim. Nim hug Steph. Steph Nim close. (Not like that.)


Nim act human. Nim use toilet. Nim like cat. Nim hump cat. Naughty Nim.

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Director: Rupert Wyatt
Cast: James Franco, Andy Serkis, John Lithgow, David Oyelowo
Certificate: 12A
Trailer

Blimey. Go back a few weeks and we were all making jokes about Deep Blue Sea. But Rise of the Planet of the Apes is even better than that. It's Deep Blue Sea, but with actual characters instead of sharks - if by characters, you mean apes. And boy, do those apes know how to rise. Bridges! Crayons! Horses! Helicopters! There's nothing they won't rise against. 

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I cannot wait for Friday 12th August. Why? Because the second week in August will see nothing other than FULL-ON MONKEY WAR. 


Yes, Project Nim and Rise of the Planet of the Apes will be getting their filthy paws all over each other and monkey-slapping their arses to death in the foyer of your local cinema. 


The incredible thing about this simian oblivion is that both films look just a little bit amazing. On the one hand, you have Deep Blue Sea 2: Apes Will Rise, starring James Franco and Brian Cox. On the other hand, you have an Oscar-winning director introducing the cutest chimpanzee of all time.


Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Project Nim. Who will win the big primate showdown? There's only one way to find out...

 

 
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Trailer: Project Nim

Director: James Marsh
Cast: Bob Inglersoll, Bob Angelini, Bern Cohen
Certificate: TBC
Release Date: Friday 12th August

From the Oscar and BAFTA winning filmmakers behind MAN ON WIRE, James Marsh and Simon Chinn, comes the story of Nim the chimpanzee.


In the 1970s Nim became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child.


Following Nim’s extraordinary 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.

 

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NEW Clip: Life with Stephanie

 

 

 

 

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Project Nim is out on Friday 12th August - the same day as Rise of the Planet of the Apes. See what we think will happen when Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Project Nim wage full-on chimpanzee war.

 

 
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