Ernest Hemingway’s granddaughter Mariel explores her family’s mental health legacy, and nerds pit computers against each other. Editor's Note: Most moviegoers don't get to attend many film festivals, ...

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.

Patrick Reister plays Peter Bishton in "Computer Chess." (Kin Lorber, Inc.) You can't get much nerdier in the title department than "Computer Chess." But any notion that the latest film from ...

“Computer Chess” may be the strangest — and most wondrous — film of the year so far, and its director, Andrew Bujalski, doesn’t think it has much to do with chess. The film takes place at an ...

Now that everyone of means walks around with a pocket computer that can access most human knowledge in a matter of seconds, it might be tough for some to recall a time in which computing was the ...

Back before computer nerds (and the artificial intelligence they created) inherited the earth, these pasty-faced programmers seemed like little more than socially awkward A/V geeks who had graduated ...