Animated penguins hang ten with documentary feel
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&quot;Surf&#39;s Up&quot; brings  audiences into the competitive world of surfing -- surfing  penguins, that is -- by using a documentary style.
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For more than a decade, the Fifth Avenue hawks have brought a touch of the wild to Manhattan&#39;s concrete canyons. The raptors that captured the hearts of a city inspired a documentary, a book and reams of newsprint.
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Movie animation has come a long way since Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke frolicked with cartoon penguins, sheep and carousel ponies in "Mary Poppins." Yet fresh off her voice work in the cutting-edge cartoon sequel "Shrek 2," Andrews thinks the blend of live-action and animation holds up splendidly in the 1964 musical fantasy, which gets elaborate new DVD treatment in a 40th anniversary two-disc set out Tuesday.
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Two animations allow viewers to "hang-glide" over terrain currently being explored by Nasa's Mars rovers.
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Berlin's celebrity polar bear Knut has to move over again Â not only has his Nuremburg counterpart Flocke stolen photographers' attention, now puzzles, games and a soft toy in the image of the fluffy 2-month-old cub are ready for release.
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What the world needs now is not another penguin movie, it would seem, following the animated "Happy Feet" and the documentary "March of the Penguins," both Oscar winners, as well as the spoof "Farce of the Penguins" and movies like "Madagascar" in which penguins steal the show.
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PBSâs childrenâs show, where animals talk and have humanlike jobs, is intermittently interesting, and itâs served up with eye-catching computer-generated animation.
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The films of Pixar are radical in their advanced animation techniques and digital rendering. The studio has topped even itself in the shadowy Paris quays, the bright, bustling kitchens and the humanistic expressions of its furry star in its new "Ratatouille."
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Faced with the lingering effects of a 19th-century trade in seabird excrement and more modern pressures, jackass penguins are struggling to recover, conservationists say.
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George Miller thought an adorable talking pig might be his ticket to an Academy Award a decade ago. He had to wait for some adorable singing and dancing penguins to bring his Oscar home.
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South African officials have built a housing development of fibreglass igloos for a colony of endangered penguins, hoping to replicate natural nesting grounds damaged by environmental degradation.
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Bruce Weber's radically sentimental documentary fixates on pets as the only beings capable of innocence, trust, loyalty and true love in a corrupt, vicious world.
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Yaron Zilberman's moving documentary approaches the Holocaust from a fresh, intimate perspective.
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By BARRY MCDONALD  WEIRD creatures you say? That's hardly a rarity on TV these days. A simple flick through the channels will reveal a varied and exotic bunch of creatures.
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The videocassette in film: an unsettling innovation, a romanticized artifact, an LP in an MP3 world.
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Casino Royale is narrowly beaten at the US box office by an animated comedy about a tap-dancing penguin.
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Two polar bears at the Pittsburgh Zoo &amp; PPG Aquarium should be resting easier these days. The zoo has unveiled a $14 million exhibit for the animals that includes a waterfall, a freshwater stream and a 150,000-gallon pool chilled to between 50 and 55 degrees. It also features a yard where they can play or nap.