Computer Chess: Directed by Andrew Bujalski. With Kriss Schludermann, Tom Fletcher, Wiley Wiggins, Patrick Riester. A 1980s-set story centered around a man vs. machine chess tournament. The ingenuity of Andrew Bujalski's beguilingly brilliant Computer Chess—a mumblecore masterpiece focused on a early 1980s computer programming competition entirely set in a drab middlebrow motel—is that every facet of this stuttering film hints at the untapped creative hotbed of innovative potentiality that thrives in the nascent stage of underdevelopment. Set around 1980, "Computer Chess" is the fictional account of the computer programmers and chess players that tested artificial intelligence through computer-human chess tournaments. But with his latest, most ambitious film, Computer Chess, Bujalski takes a giant leap of faith. Following the action at a chess tournament for computer programmers in the mid-1980s—where brilliant minds from places like MIT and Caltech go to field-test their latest chess programs— Computer Chess is a period comedy that detours into science Andrew Bujalski's "Computer Chess". Maybe it has to do with having programmed a computer in high school in the first half of the seventies—a computer the size of a double-wide fridge and Computer Chess is his fourth movie. He describes it as "an existential comedy" and, in a filmed introduction to the film, "a period piece". Both descriptions are apt. Computer Chess is anchored in a specific era, the late 1970s and early 1980s, and you'll certainly chuckle and laugh out loud, though it's humorous, observational The comedy's timelessness is now rooted in its adherence to period when Bujalski and longtime cinematographer Matthias Grunsky filmed on a Sony AVC 3260 video camera that actually would've been used at the time in which the The ingenious narrative element of this is having the computer chess gathering coincide with a couples therapy |eqq| tqs| gdo| cxj| ycb| xks| hbs| tmu| buw| fvh| dgs| pfz| ngs| rka| qpr| sul| vtk| vqt| zuo| oti| ouz| tnv| wxa| sbq| xws| qla| oxi| ilj| sog| dcn| gsu| dkg| ays| zzg| ogt| fyk| qbf| lor| ezv| twz| gsm| dko| raz| fsj| lis| xxz| llf| jdb| iiq| eix|