CRITTER FLICKS.(filmmaker Mark Lewis's documentaries on animals)(Interview)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 30-SEP-02

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There are two species of Emmy winners that can be sighted at this time of year: the prime-time Emmy winners, who were all dressed up for the live award broadcast from L.A. last weekend, and the news and documentary Emmy winners, who, a couple of weeks earlier, were at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. The latter group gets less "Entertainment Tonight"-type attention, given its less fabulous plumage, and Mark Lewis--tall, dark-haired, relatively mild-mannered--is a fine specimen, having won two Emmys this year for directing and producing the documentary "The Natural History of the Chicken." "Chicken" is the fifth in his series of excellent, funny, and very non-prime-time documentaries that end up being less about animals than about humans. The other films are "Cane Toads," "The Wonderful World of Dogs," "Animalicious," and "Rat," which won an Emmy in 1998....

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