Let’s all hop in the cinematic time machine and journey back many, many years ago to the very dawn of, not civilization, but computers. So, we’re talking the early 1980’s or so in Andrew Bujalski’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this hilarious comedy of manners set in 1980, a group of nerdy computer programmers gather at a chess-software convention. Meanwhile, the same hotel is also hosting New Age therapy for couples.

There are film fanatics, and then there are fanatics for the analog photochemical wonder that is a movie projected on film. That’s right: old-fashioned, softer-edged, mellow and expressive film. On a ...

Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, this film transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human ...