captured with a very old school video camera Sony, visual blurring and distorted black and white gives an air of authenticity to the whole quite appropriate irregular granular obsessive nerds and programming technology the film is the main objective. And I must say that the game is uniformly excellent: every tic, every stumble, every stuttering occurs with absolute verisimilitude. Where previous films Bujalski has focused on capturing the rhythms and cadences of daily discomfort in the contemporary world, here is doing a little better, and took it for a long time in the past.

• There is a story, somehow happens. This meeting is a long way from the glamor and spectacle of modern product launch: here we have a dozen supporters in the 80s horrible sweat shirts stuck in a budget hotel: a weekend to see their game against of other chess programs. Tsar acquires Checkers 3.0, personalities, etc. mass emerge: bitter, frustrated Beuscher (Wiley Wiggins of Dazed and Confused), cheeky, besuited Papageorge (Myles Paige), shy but smart-Bishton (Patrick Riester). While there are certainly satirical here, there is also widespread recognition eyes only if humble beginnings in a poor state of the digital revolution was born.
Computer Chess

certainly has its length: there are scenes in which most developers discuss the future potential of artificial intelligence, and winding Bujalski, the narrative method apparently without structure - where scenes rarely make itself - not boost forward. However, some great running gags - double continuous backup with a group meeting let-it-all-hang-out, the constant recognition of the only "lady" at the convention, the failure to find a Papageorge bed for the night - meaning that laughter is never far away. Bujalski has really taken off something extraordinary here will not be to everyone's taste, too - this is not a war game style comedy pop. However, as an act of cultural archeology as best I can think of a few.