As mumblecore legends Andrew Bujalski and Joe Swanberg release new films, Computer Chess and Drinking Buddies, Ryan Gilbey talks to them about the meandering legacy of a movement that irritated as ...
Of all the things to make a movie out of, why a bunch of computer science geeks trying to make a program that can beat a human at chess? Writer, director and editor Andrew Bujalski’s one-of-a-kind ...
Director Andrew Bujalski may be renowned for his rough and ready lo fi approach to cinema, but for Computer Chess, his wonderful new feature released in cinemas this week, he strips things back even ...
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The late Ingmar Bergman's film the Seventh Seal helped cement his reputation as a cerebral director, and might explain why chess is such an enduring theme for film makers. In the Seventh Seal a ...
As enthralling as it is quirky, Andrew Bujalski's tale of man and machine moves from audaciously dull to singularly freaky Until now, my suspicion has been that the only thing of lasting value created ...
Writer-director Andrew Bujalski’s (Funny Ha Ha) latest is a micro-budget mockumentary about a poky chess tournament between variously dysfunctional software programmers, including Dazed And Confused’s ...
Andrew Bujalski’s US indie drama is very much set in the Eighties. Shot in black and white, on old-school video cameras, the film all but hums with that decade’s cold, would-be streamlined pizzazz. We ...
Shot on repellent black-and-white video to better replicate its early-80s setting, Computer Chess is strangely of a piece with writer/director Andrew Bujalski’s previous thorny romantic dramedies.