killing of the cook to save his own life. It is easy to believe that Pi, a sensitive boy with a religious imagination, had to invent this myth to bear, psychologically, the pain of his trials ...

NEW YORK – Ang Lee’s “Life of Pi” is ... the novel by Yann Martel, “Pi” is a magical film. It’s a philosophical and metaphysical exploration of faith, religion and, most importantly ...

In his recent Calendar article on religiously tinged films [“Faith Makes a Hollywood Comeback,” Dec. 30], critic Stephen Farber singles out Ang Lee’s “Life of Pi,” based on the like ...

Yann Martel's 2002 novel, also made into a 2012 Ang Lee film, gets a stage adaptation that is wondrously dreamy and profound. As the tale's shipwrecked teen, Taha Mandviwala is mesmerizing.

With Life of Pi, Lee takes on a not-so-crouching ... Otherwise, Lee takes the best from Martell's novel and blends religion and zoology (the adult Pi's dual college majors) in artful ways.

Like the original novel, the play touches on profound issues of religion versus spirituality, man versus nature, and the instinct for survival. “The Life of Pi” originated as a novel by ...

Pi (Hiran Abeysekera) goes head to head with tiger-puppet Richard Parker in a boisterous new staging of "Life of Pi ... for the story’s existence: religion. Precocious Pi (short for the ...

“Life of Pi,” Yann Martel’s Booker ... a naval uniform as the author of the book. He urges Pi to overcome his gentle nature, and his religious dietary restrictions, to kill a turtle (yet ...

The trailer for Ang Lee's adaptation of Yann Martel's famous book The Life of Pi has been making waves because of its beauty. But the book deals more closely with religion, God, humanity ...

Host John Ydstie talks to Canadian author Yann Martel about his novel Life of Pi, which won Britain's Mann-Booker Prize this year. It's a meditation on the role of religion in modern life ...