If you walk into a screening of Computer Chess without any prior knowledge, you’ll likely think two things. First, this is a real documentary about tech nerds from the 1980s. Second, it looks rough. Think Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Grindhouse’ project, with all the celluloid crackles, blips and hairs trapped in the gate, and you’re some way to imagining what writer-director Andrew Bujalski has conjured up for this off-offbeat comedy.
The so-called “godfather of mumblecore”, Bujalski’s early films Funny Ha Ha (2003) and Mutual Appreciation (2005) dealt with characters coming to terms with life in their 20s. But Computer Chess is about as far removed from the realist ramblings of those movies as you could want. A mock-doc that follows a bunch of long-hairs as they descend on a hotel for three days to pit their rival computer chess programs against each other, it’s like watching a time-capsule from the days of Open University broadcasts.
via IGN All http://feeds.ign.com/~r/ign/all/~3/hVFmFf6Y9fA/computer-chess-review
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