Even for a mumblecore film, “Computer Chess” is weak stuff, a punitively dull chunk of quirk that is about, and feels like, being stuck in a motel with a gaggle of programming nerds for a ...

Shot with a boxy, old Sony Portapak video cam, Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess is a deadpan mock-documentary about an early-’80s gathering of programming nerds, arguing about AI and ...

Focused on a group of proto-computer nerds involved in a tournament to devise first-rate chess software for their clunky machines, the movie relishes the awkward expressions of brilliance from its ...

Andrew Bujalski’s new film Computer Chess, which debuted Monday at the Sundance Film Festival, is perhaps one of the oddest sports movies ever made. A black-and-white period piece shot on 16mm ...

Although ostensibly about programming, Computer Chess succeeds in being about so much more than technical babble.

Andrew Bujalski's fake documentary 'Computer Chess' gets points for capturing nerds at the chessboard in the early 1980s.

When you visit the History of Computer Chess exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the first machine you see is "The Turk." In 1770, a Hungarian engineer and ...

With Computer Chess, Andrew Bujalski, the American indie auteur known for no-budget gems Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation, has made a profoundly idiosyncratic and strangely offbeat movie about ...

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 ...