An endearingly nutty, proudly analog tribute to the ultra-nerdy innovators of yesteryear, this quasi-mockumentary is easy to admire in spirit even when its haphazard construction practically defines ...

Within the first few minutes of Computer Chess something seems awry. It looks like a documentary (or maybe a faux-documentary?) But then the audience's view begins to cut to different vantage points ...

The decompression is in full swing on Friday at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, the penultimate day of screenings (if you don't count the encore screenings of prize winners on Sunday). It was, then, ...

There is an immediate sense of change afoot in “Computer Chess,” Andrew Bujalski‘s fourth feature as writer-director, visible to anyone familiar with his previous work. While Bujalski’s influential ...

Made in Austin and set deep in the subculture of 1980s computer nerds, a tournament to create the best code unfolds over the course of one strange weekend. Writer/director Andrew Bujalski and cast ...

A breakthrough—not just for indie writer-director Andrew Bujalski (Mutual Appreciation, Beeswax), but for American movie comedy—this zany, intellectually dense, and surprisingly chilling period piece ...

So far the funniest, headiest, most playfully eccentric American indie of the year, Andrew Bujalski's perceptive avant-garde comedy Computer Chess-- set circa 1980 with an Anytown, America's worth of ...