BERLIN — David M. Rosenthal’s “A Single Shot,” starring Sam Rockwell and William H. Macy, is among four U.S. films that will unspool in the Berlin Film Festival‘s Forum section, which unveiled its ...

Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess—a weird and unexpectedly profound new comedy opening this weekend at the Music Box—is deceptively basic filmmaking, hiding an ingenious narrative structure behind ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Tobey Maguire film “Pawn Sacrifice,” about American chess legend Bobby Fischer, hit theaters this week. And that seemed like a good excuse to talk about chess in film. There are plenty of films ...

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 ...