How ‘The Penguin Lessons’ Director Captured Human Emotions From the Bird — and What Footage Landed on the Editing Room Floor
The Penguin Lessons' balances stories about an adorable penguin and the atrocities of a political uprising in 1976 Argentina.
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Steve Coogan takes off with flightless bird in The Penguin Lessons
The tale told in The Penguin Lessons is not that remarkable on the surface, but it holds a deeper meaning to it that the film demonstrates through its relaxed but insightful storytelling. Open the ...
Put a bird in it: ‘The Penguin Lessons’ feels familiar
I wasn’t wrong. That movie was called “My Penguin Friend” and starred Jean Reno and Adriana Barraza. It was released eight ...
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‘The Penguin Lessons’ Is a Waddling Delight
What begins as a melancholy expat’s teaching stint in 1970s Buenos Aires morphs into a quietly powerful tale of friendship, fascism and feathered persistence. ‘The Penguin ...
At a Penguin ‘Retirement Home,’ a Slower Pace and Plenty of Fish
Six African Penguins at the New England Aquarium in Boston have made a new home on an island designed to address the aches ...
The Mississippi Aquarium has welcomed its first baby penguins. Now you can go see them
In January, the Mississippi Aquarium welcomed two tiny critically endangered penguin hatchlings — the first penguins born in ...
Bird flu has decimated flocks — but not at San Diego zoos. Here’s how they keep condors, penguins and more safe.
Safari Park, San Diego Zoo and SeaWorld have not seen any of the animals in their collections infected in the three years ...
A new place for aging penguins to chill: New England Aquarium builds an ‘assisted living’ island
The new private island, separate from the main penguin colony, so far accommodates six aging African penguins, who range in ...
‘The Penguin Lessons,’ starring a teacher’s pet, has feel-good movie moments down cold
Supremely dry and subtle, Steve Coogan saves this real-life story, about an adopted penguin and an academic rescued from his ...
A small amount of penguin poop is enough to spook krill
The penguin poop didn’t only influence krill movements. In another phase of the experiment, researchers noticed the ...
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The Penguin Lessons
"The Penguin Lessons" is a throwback to roughly thirty years ago, when small-scale, heartwarming comedies about plucky ...