Podcasts about Computer chess

In this special episode, I welcome documentary filmmaker Lee Hirsch ("Bully") and producer Houston King ("The Hero", "Computer Chess") who together founded the political action committee —or PAC— Local Voices. In our conversation we discuss the Local Voices' vision that goes into their impactful campaigns, produced and aired in battleground states like Pennsylvania. I'm including a couple of their ads here as well, though audio from a number of them are included in this episode. https://youtu.be/1bYfAfA8U1U?si=WnnWa9brTad5WgIf https://youtu.be/lyDDT5ZOO2o?si=pK_bi5ORBmv15ml9

We talk about Andrew Bujalski's 2013 film Computer Chess, where none of the people in the movie actually play chess. Check and mate, nerds

Matty and Corbsy talk about COMPUTER CHESS, American Director Andrew Bujalski's fable about AI, shitty hotels, flirting, free will and the Mysterious Man of Myth, Michael Papageorge. 

Sam Clements is curating a fictional film festival. He'll accept almost anything, but the movie must not be longer than 90 minutes. This is the 90 Minutes Or Less Film Fest podcast. In episode 105 Sam is joined by Celine Song, writer and director of Past Lives. Celine has chosen Andrew Bujalski's Computer Chess (90 minutes) from 2013. The film is set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago. It's an American independent comedy, filmed on a ‘80s black and white video camera and presented as a documentary.  Sam and Celine discuss the origins of Past Lives and Sharon Van Etten's end credits song, as well as the subject of AI and how Andrew Bujalski's work on Computer Chess is increasingly more relevant today.  Past Lives is in cinemas now, released by Studio Canal in the UK and A24 in the USA.  Thank you for downloading. We'll be back in a couple of weeks! Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/90minfilm If you enjoy the show, please subscribe, rate, review and share with your friends. We're an independent podcast and every recommendation helps - thank you!  You can also show your support for the podcast by buying us a coffee at our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/90minfilmfest Website: 90minfilmfest.com Tweet: @90MinFilmFest  Instagram: @90MinFilmFest  We are a proud member of the Stripped Media Network. Hosted and produced by @sam_clements. Edited and produced by Louise Owen. Guest star Celine Song (@helloellephanta). Additional editing and sound mixing by @lukemakestweets. Music by @martinaustwick. Artwork by @samgilbey.  Bonus link: The original Computer Chess website is still live and full of interesting further reading! 

Director Andrew Bujalski joins us on the podcast to discuss his career in independent filmmaking his latest movie There There (2022) and we go deep into the making of his masterpiece Computer Chess (2013)

"I always want to make a film that I feel like no one else is going to make." Andrew Bujalski More on this special livestream interview from your host, Mitch Hampton: There are so many wondrous things to say about our livestream guest Andrew Bujalski. The first that comes to mind is how long I have known him. Having met him on his first feature, the groundbreaking Funny HaHa wayback in 2002, no less, and been blessed to have my music as part of his score in his previous Support The Girls in 2018, I think it is a rare thing to watch a single and singular artist grow and evolve over such a length of time. His newest feature, "There there", while not directly about the Covid Pandemic in plot, drew upon the Pandemic in its formal properties. In "There there" he essentially created a new way of filming characters as well as environment: no two actors are in the same location and the photographic technology scanned great geographical distances. "There, there" is a dense, humanistic work about human relationships and love, at once a critical document of our current moment and a continuation of the themes that have most concerned Andrew over the entire 00s to today, including some sweetness and heart alongside the struggles of his characters. I can think of no better decision by Magnolia than to release it on this Valentines Day. It was a treat to speak in depth with Andrew as we discussed many things - all in keeping with the overall artistic and cultural interests of our podcast. Andrew Buljalski's Biography Andrew Bujalski was born in Boston in 1977 and studied film at Harvard's Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. He wrote and directed the films FUNNY HA HA (2002), MUTUAL APPRECIATION (2005). His first films all appeared on the New York Times's “Best of the Year” lists. Bujalski wrote both screenplays, and appears as an actor, playing a major role in both films. BEESWAX (2009) and COMPUTER CHESS (2013), Bujalski's third and fourth independent films, were filmed in Austin, where the director lives now. COMPUTER CHESS is a period film set at a computer programming tournament in 1980, premiered at the Sundance FF and won the Alfred Sloan Feature Film Prize. His film RESULTS (2015), premiered at Sundance FF. SUPPORT THE GIRLS (2018) had its world premiere at SXSW and will be released by Magnolia Pictures. More about his new film "There, there": A lover's doubt in the cold light of morning leads a chain of uneasy intimacies--counselors, disruptors, peacemakers and fire-starters--every one looking to have a little faith rewarded. Link to watch Andrew's Film, "There there": https://www.magpictures.com/therethere/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mitch-hampton/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mitch-hampton/support

In THERE THERE acclaimed filmmaker Andrew Bujalski (Support the Girls, Computer Chess) explores the precarious nature of human connection in a round robin of emotional two-character vignettes in which seven people reach out and bond momentarily, setting the scene for the next encounter. A pair of new lovers, an alcoholic and her AA sponsor, a teacher and a parent, a lawyer and his client, and more move from scene to scene, revealing intimate details as they forge connections. Via a groundbreaking shooting process, Bujalski plays with ideas of isolation and perception by filming each actor individually in separate locations, only joining them to their partner's performance in the edit. An extraordinary cast including Jason Schwartzman, Lennie James, Lili Taylor and Molly Gordon sensitively captures the humor and heartbreaking fragility of life and love in the 2020s. Director Andrew Bujalski (Beeswax, Support the Girls, Results, Funny Ha Ha) stops by for a conversation on how the daunting challenge of making a film in the age of COVID that mirrored the unstable zeitgeist of a film about seven people rattling through life trying to re-connect with a recognizable humanity. For more go to: magpictures.com/therethere

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Jamison and Blake talk about their world travels as well as getting as far away from each other as possible. They finally decide on their podcast name and then the sentient internet decides to give us technical difficulties before we jump into our discussion of Jamison's film pick from 2013 entitled Computer Chess by Andrew Bujalski. The film takes the conversation into far flung worlds of sentient chatbots, elephants, humans acting like robots, robots acting like humans, and, of course, breaking a seven-year-old's finger. Then Blake unleashes his next film pick and starts the podcast down a trajectory of which Jamison finds unfortunate. References: "Do Elephants Have Souls?" - The New Atlantis "Google AI researcher explains why the technology may be 'sentient'" - NPR "No Minds Without Other Minds" - Justin E. H. Smith's Hinternet "Chess Robot Goes Rogue, Breaks Seven-Year-Old Player's Finger - Newsweek "Google fires engineer Blake Lemoine who contended its AI technology was sentient" - CNN --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/flybyfilms/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/flybyfilms/support

This week, Lo & Mo attempt to navigate the surreal humor and horrors of Andrew Bujalski's 2013 film, COMPUTER CHESS. In a podcast first, we consider revisiting the film after the season ends in order to dig deeper. SUPPORT: https://www.patreon.com/LoMoMedia --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lomomedia/message

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Vielleicht fragst du dich jetzt: Was soll denn dieser Titel? «En Siech voll» ist die offizielle Masseinheit des OutCasts und Film ist, nunja, unser Ding. Marco und Nicolas besprechen in dieser Folge die letzten 11 Filme, die sie Zuhause gesehen haben und stecken sie in eine Rangliste. Doch warum tun wir das? Die ganze Welt spricht über Zack Snyder's Justice League. Die ganze Welt? Nein! Ein von unbeugsamen Schweizern bevölkertes Land muss sich noch zwei weitere Wochen gedulden. Darum. In der Diskussion erwähnte Filme und Serien: Ong Bak, Ong Bak 2, Ong Bak 3, Sample This, Mars Attacks, Sleepless, The Vast of Night, Steve Jobs, Kiki's Delivery Service, Headshot, Mile 22, The Allnighter, Own the Room, The Snorkel, Random Acts of Violence, Hobbyhorse Revolution, The Great Alligator, Computer Chess, Centrigrade, Man with a Movie Camera, Tenet, The Deer Hunter Thema nächste Woche: Wer weiss! Nicolas' Ketchup für Folge 167: Breakfast at Tiffany's und The Breakfast Club! Themen: Intro - (0:00) «En Siech voll Film» - (1:10) Abschluss und Outro - (1:36:11) Website: www.outnow.ch Facebook: www.facebook.com/OutNow.CH/ Twitter: twitter.com/outnow Instagram: www.instagram.com/outnow.ch/

In preparation for our discussion on "The Queen's Gambit", Aaron White of Feelin' Film and I (Paul Keelan) went on a bender with chess movies. In under a week's span, we both watched "Pawn Sacrifice," "Searching for Bobby Fischer," "The Coldest Game," "Queen of Katwe," and "Computer Chess" (on top of "The Queen's Gambit" miniseries). After this whirlwind of research, it quickly dawned upon the both of us that the content stored in our brains would inspire way too much dialogue to fit into a single podcast discussion. Thus, we decided to create extra-special 'chess extravaganza' episode so that we could dissect this eclectic selection of chess films and the sub-genre at-length. Moving at a rapid-fire pace—as fast as a game of speed chess—we talk about everything from Toby Maguire's odd portrayal of Bobby Fischer, to the poignant focus on parenting in "Searching for Bobby Fischer," to the idiosyncratic & polarizing curio that is "Computer Chess" (Beware: it is not (I repeat it is not!) a documentary about computers playing chess). We also outline the various tropes common to chess films: including the themes of madness, addiction, paranoia, Washington Sq. Park, and Cold War / Soviet vs. US politics that pervade nearly all of these movies. Finally, Aaron and I both rank all of these chess films (with "The Queen's Gambit" included in the mix): separating once and for all the blundering pawns from the promotable queens to-be. One of the more succinct Cinematic Underdogs episodes to date, this episode packs a ton of insights and canny commentary that you will not want to miss. Enjoy!

In this episode, Eric continues his conversation with the Indian number two of Indian chess: Super Grandmaster Pentala Harikrishna (1986) from India. In this episode Eric and Hari talk about the first book Harikrishna wrote, "Beat the French with 3. Nc3". Hari explains that it is not only a book about the French Defence, but also a book about general opening principles, strategies and he explains that is is not always useful to pick the best computer move and to trust your instincts. There is a lot of text in the book, which makes it interesting for a wide range of players. The book was published by Thinkers Publishing. LTAC recommended! However, there is another amazing story Hari has in store for us: he tells about his meeting with the legend of all legends, Bobby Fischer. He met him in Reykjavik, Iceland in 2006. Don't miss it! Pentala Harikrishna became the youngest grandmaster from India on 12 September 2001, a record now held by Gukesh D. He was Commonwealth Champion in 2001, World Junior Champion in 2004 and Asian Individual Champion in 2011. Pentala won the Tata Steel Group B in 2012 and the Biel MTO Masters Tournament Open event in 2013. He represented India at seven Chess Olympiads from 2000 to 2012 and won team Bronze at the World Team Chess Championships in 2010. At the Asian Team Championships, Pentala won team gold once, team silver twice and individual bronze once. In July 2020, he won with 5.5 points out of 7 games the Chess960 event, that was part of the chess tournament in Biel. He also represented India in the Online Olympiad 2020 where India won the gold medal along with Russia. In February 2013, Pentala's FIDE rating passed 2700 for the first time. He broke into the top ten players in the world in November 2016 with a FIDE rating of 2768. His current rating (February 2021) is 2730.  Do you like LTAC? Consider to support the podcast:  https://steadyhq.com/de/letstalkaboutchess/about ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

On this podcast, we welcome the husband and wife filmmaking team behind THE RABBI GOES WEST. Gerry Peary should be familiar to Wisconsin Film Festival audiences. In recent years he has been a guest of the festival twice, in 2013 as a cast member of Andrew Bujalski’s COMPUTER CHESS, and in 2016 to present his documentary feature, ARCHIE’S BETTY. Gerry received a Ph.D. in Communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1977 and in addition to being a filmmaker has had a long career in film criticism and journalism with his work appearing in The Boston Globe, the LA Times and many other publications. Amy Geller’s award-winning productions [PBS's THE WAR THAT MADE AMERICA (2005), FOR THE LOVE OF MOVIES (2009), and THE GUYS NEXT DOOR (2016), which she co-directed], have been broadcast and screened at prestigious film festivals around the world. She served as the Artistic Director of the Boston Jewish Film Festival and teaches production courses at Boston University.

In this third episode, Eric talks to another interesting guest about computer chess, Alpha Zero and chess variants. Deep Mind, the artificial intelligence company that shocked the world of chess  with Alpha Zero in December 2017, released a new scientific paper in September 2020, called: „Assessing game balance with Alpha Zero: exploring alternative rules sets in chess". Danish grandmaster Peter Heine Nielsen, who is the coach of chess world champion Magnus Carlsen, knows a lot about chess engines and chess variants, and gives us his opinion about the paper. But there is more to talk about: the Bongcloud opening, online chess, Chess960 and more. Enjoy! 

Since the invention of the modern computer, humans have been trying to write chess playing programs. In this episode, we trace the history of computer chess, and explain how a chess program works. We discuss why developing a world champion computer chess AI was considered a great achievement. And we finish with how computer chess continues to evolve, and how it’s evolving human chess. Follow us on Twitter @KopecExplains. Theme “Place on Fire” Copyright 2019 Creo, CC BY 4.0 Find out more at http://kopec.live

This week Randy & Will stumble into the mumblecore genre and look at Andrew Bujalski's Computer Chess. Released in 2013, the film is set at a hotel where a computer chess tournament is being held in one of the ballrooms. The film follows a cast of characters both during and after each day's competition with comedic and dramatic vignettes that touch on success, ego, and the limits of human intelligence.Computer Chess is available on Amazon Prime Video and Kanopy.---Find Cathode Ray Mission on Letterboxd at crmpodOr on Instagram at cathoderaymissionpodEmails us at cathoderaymissionpodcast@gmail.comFind Randy & Will on Letterboxd at Raygun Busch & Wolf DakotaOr on Instagram @raygun_busch and @will.scovill

Aquesta setmana a PROGRAMA DOBLE ens fixem en un esport de tauler milenari com són els escacs amb dues pel·lícules que observen dos moments diferents d'aquest món: LA DIAGONAL DEL LOCO, ambientada en una final del campionat del món i COMPUTER CHESS, ambientada en el món de la creació d'ordinadors capaços de jugar i guanyar als escacs.

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, Jack Nutting, Blake Patterson, and Carrington Vanston Topic: As Seen on TV Retro computers, as featured in TV and movies. What shows at the time had computers in them? What shows of today has yesterday's computers in them? Topic/Feedback links: Rebuilding James Bond’s Apple IIc - A Software Forgery Blake mentions: War Games, The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins, Whiz Kids, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, Electric Dreams, Cloak and Dagger, Weird Science, Knight Rider, Kindergarden Cop, City Slickers, Wayne's World The War Games IMSAI 8080 Earl mentions: Terminator - Rise Of The Machines, Star Wreck - In The Pirkinning, UFO, Colossus: The Forbin Project Jack mentions: Manhunt: Unabomber Carrington mentions: Desk Set, Alphaville, World on a Wire, Crosstalk, The Rachel Papers, Evilspeak, Takeover, The KGB, The Computer, and Me, Triumph of the Nerds, Pirates of Silicon Valley, Computer Chess, John Wick series, Magic 2.0: Off to Be the Wizard (Scott Meyer). Paul mentions: Halt & Catch Fire, Stranger Things, The Americans, The Goldbergs, Young Sheldon, Schooled, Blindspot, Devs, The IT Crowd, Lost, Preacher, Timeless, Mr. Robot Spectrum Next unboxing video New C64 printed circuit boards Camelot dungeon game, on Cyber1 (PLATO) Retro Computing News: Bill Metcalfe, BBS game developer, passed away Apple and Steve Jobs' Biggest Mistakes Ep 1 - The Macintosh GraphicConverter now opens Apple II formats ATR Image Explorer The Long View - Macintosh Y2020 Moritz & Alexander (2019). Vintage electronics for trusted radiation measurements and verified dismantlement of nuclear weapons. PLOS ONE. Bubbles Whiting—Using Punch Cards 1970s Unbuilt Kit Computers Sylvain Lefebvre made a DooM-chip Brief Engadget write-up of DooM-chip Upcoming shows VCF Southeast 8.0. July 10-12. Atlanta, GA. KansasFest. July 24-25. Online. WozFest SWEET 16. Sat Jul 25. Online. VCF West. August 1-2. Mountain View, CA (Computer History Museum). VCF East. October 10-12, 2020 (rescheduled). InfoAge. Wall, NJ. Vintage Computer-related Commercials: Are you keeping up with the Commodore? Retro Computing Gift Idea: UpCart Plus for C64 Auction Picks: Blake: Mindset Computer System See also: Mindset Computer (Bytecellar) Exatron Stringy Floppy Disk Drive Wafer media Carrington: AOL t-shirt My Other Computer Is An Apple II (sticker) My Other Computer Is A Commodore 64 (sticker) My Other Tablet Is A Newton (sticker) Radio Shack CGP-115 4-pen printer Spare paper rolls for CGP-115 Earl: MAINDEC-11-DZMMC-A-PB (PDP-8 paper tape) Commodore Computer Gold Rim Shot Glass NeXT shot glass Paul: Applesurance diagnostic disk controller See also: Apple II The Review, Spring 1986 (p. 18) See also: Stephen Buggie presentation (KansasFest 1996) Personal Software VisiStuff Tandy 1000 EX DEC PDP etc. stuff Martek Electronics Apple II external keyboard See also: Compute! (Feb 1989) See also: Computist (#74) Closing words links: Clipper Summer 87 unboxing Home Computers: 100 Icons that Defined a Digital Generation (book, CNN Style) Feedback/Discussion: @rcrpodcast on Twitter Vintage Computer Forum RCR Podcast on Facebook Throwback Network Throwback Network on Facebook Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X - link Show audio files hosted by CyberEars Listen/Download:

A member of the BVK (German Society of Cinematographers), Matthias was born in Austria and worked as a camera assistant in Austria and Germany before attending AFI in Los Angeles. Matthias' film projects include Andrew Bujalski's debut feature Funny Ha Ha, and the acclaimed Computer Chess, as well as Nights and Weekends, for Greta Gerwig and Joe Swanberg. More recently, he shot the feature Support the Girls, again for Andrew Bujalski, Saints Rest, and the television historical drama Defiance. Three Women and the Vote.

A comprehensive look at the career of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski, including detailed discussion of how his films up to now were made, especially the originality of their style, his educational background at Harvard with Chantal Akerman, working with both professional and nonprofessional actors, issues of reception and distribution, films both of us have loved, and much more. Inside the Episode with Mitch Hampton “Back in the period around 2001 or thereabouts I was fortunate to have been an early viewer of Andrew Bujalski's Funny HaHa. This low budget character centered comedy of manners set in the Boston area was destined to change the course of American cinema forever. In a very real sense, though Bujalksi being ever humble among other qualities would not give assent to this, had Bujalski not made that first feature, you could argue there might not have ever been Lena Dunham's Girls. Bujalksi made it okay for filmmakers to make extremely awkward and naturalistic movies primarily about relationships but completely outside of all of the conventions of studio filmmaking. Bujalski's films are as complex emotionally as anything from Harold Pinter, and by design they use ellipsis to keep viewers on the edges of their seat as to what is going on between the characters. I actually did not know at the time that he was or had been ensconced at Harvard and had studied with the likes of Chantal Akerman. I also had not idea that his work would have the large effect that it has. At the time it was extraordinarily divisive and I could count among my friends both those who hated the films, considering them meandering and plots or overtly consumed with the whining of relatively privileged characters, as well as those like myself who though that Bujalksi was one of the precious few people expressing what was actually going on in human relationships in the contemporary world, warts and all. Bujalski, like most good filmmakers, knows his cinema history and our conversation proved wide ranging as we talked about everything from Francois Truffaut to the Rocky movie franchise all off which made for a one of a kind conversation, as one of a kind as his movies. His latest Support The Girls should be seen wherever you can.” Andrew’s Bio "Andrew Bujalski has written and directed six feature films. He types 89 wpm." Some website links to his works: Support the Girls | Magnolia Pictures RESULTS: http://www.magpictures.com/results/ Computer Chess: http://www.computerchessmovie.com Beeswax: http://www.cinemaguild.com/theatrical/beeswax.html FunnyHaHa : http://www.funnyhahafilm.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mitch-hampton/message

Originally from East Texas, Colin earned a BFA in Costume Design from Cal Arts, designing performance art, theater, opera, puppetry, and music videos, before moving into film in 2009. Some of Colin's notable projects include the films Computer Chess, Results and Support The Girls, for director Andrew Bujalski, as well as more recently Little Woods and Palm Springs.

Andrew Bujalski's first feature film, Funny Ha Ha, was called one of the most influential films of the '00s by New York Times critic A.O. Scott. He has also written and directed the films Mutual Appreciation, Beeswax, Computer Chess, and Results, which have played festivals worldwide including Sundance, Berlin, and the 2014 Whitney Biennial. The Boston Globe describes him as "unerringly polite and somewhat disheveled." His latest film, Support the Girls, premiered at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival.

We have become YouTube famous! We talk nick names, parenting blunders, and what the heck is this new Computer Chess Championship from Chess.com. Follow Us Danny: Twitter, Twitch, Chess.com Motz: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Ouija by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr ⭐⭐ Review Us (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/coffeehouse-blunders/id1229231959?mt=2&ls=1) ⭐⭐ Support the Show: * Subscribe to Blue Bottle and Get $10 (https://www.blunders.fm/bluebottle) * Become a Chess.com Member and Support Blunders (https://www.blunders.fm/chess)

We have become YouTube famous! We talk nick names, parenting blunders, and what the heck is this new Computer Chess Championship from Chess.com. Follow Us Danny: Twitter, Twitch, Chess.com Motz: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Ouija by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr ⭐⭐ Review Us (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/coffeehouse-blunders/id1229231959?mt=2&ls=1) ⭐⭐ Support the Show: * Subscribe to Blue Bottle and Get $10 (https://www.blunders.fm/bluebottle) * Become a Chess.com Member and Support Blunders (https://www.blunders.fm/chess)

In Andrew Bujalski’s comedy Lisa (Regina Hall) is the last person you'd expect to find in a highway-side "sports bar with curves,"-- but as general manager at Double Whammies, she's come to love the place, and its customers. An instinctive den mother, she nurtures and protects her ‘girls’ on the staff fiercely -- but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction... Double Whammies sells a big, weird American fantasy, but what happens when reality pokes a bunch of holes in it? Director Andrew Bujalski's Statement - It seems like just about the simplest business concept you could imagine -- "What if all the waitresses in this restaurant wore tight, cleavage-y halter tops?"-- but I couldn't get over how bizarre it ultimately was. No culture besides present-day America would ever produce mass-scale demand for such a place, a business that seems about 10% strip club and 90% TGI Friday's / Applebee's / Chili's / Cracker Barrel. Strippers are supposed to make men feel like badass transgressors. But these women are just supposed to make you feel normal -- the proverbial "red-blooded American male." You don't see many stories set in this  slice of Americana, and with good reason. It does not lend itself to grand dramatic arcs, or, really, to gut-busting comedy. But it certainly is full of contradictions, and incredibly fertile with opportunities for subtle spiritual conflicts. I couldn't pretend to untangle these from an insider's perspective, so I dreamed up a kind of outsider character, Lisa the general manager, to walk in there with a spirit of openness and love -- and plenty of her own pathologies--to see what she might discover in there. While it is a very specific story in many ways, I hope that anyone who's ever worked for a living will relate. Most of us have to buy/sell one crazy "concept" or another to pay our bills, and some days, you're not sure if your humor and dignity will survive to the end of the shift… Director and writer Andrew Bujalski (Beeswax, Computer Chess, Results) joins us to talk about his insightful “girl power” comedic drama with a ground-level take on masculine hurly-burly in a vanishing American paradigm. For news and updates go to: supportthegirlsfilm.com

With the announcement of the Computer Chess Championship are chess engines set to take over the world?!?! How is Danny enjoying his new coffee setup, and will Motz be allowed to enter Brazil when he heads out there in a few weeks? Follow Us Danny: Twitter, Twitch, Chess.com Motz: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Ouija by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

With the announcement of the Computer Chess Championship are chess engines set to take over the world?!?! How is Danny enjoying his new coffee setup, and will Motz be allowed to enter Brazil when he heads out there in a few weeks? Follow Us Danny: Twitter, Twitch, Chess.com Motz: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Ouija by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

Man vs machine is never really about machines. Machines always teach us about humanity. Lots of details from Sid Suicide. One theme spirals into many trains of thought. The continuing history of struggles in art, technology, and humanity. Computer chess … Continue reading →

Hailed as one of the rising stars of the DIY/indie film scene at the turn of the 21st century -- including a "favorite filmmaker" designation by perennial bellwether critic Amy Taubin and a "Someone To Watch" Award given by the Independent Spirit Awards -- Andrew Bujalski, rather unwittingly, has been called the pioneer of the so-called "Mumblecore" movement in cinema. Perhaps the most recent alternative film ethos (or maybe just a marketing catchall by lazy journalists -- you decide), Mumblecore has boasted such "graduates" as Greta Gerwig, the Duplass Bros., Lynn Shelton and Joe Swanberg, amongst many others. And it all started -- for good or ill -- with Bujalski, whose films include Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation and Computer Chess. As the Mumblecore gang has grown up, with Bujalski himself having had recent mainstream success with his Support the Girls and screenplay for Disney's upcoming live-action Lady and the Tramp, we can now ask: What happens when film nerds and geeks become major movie stars and big-time directors? Find out on the this episode of NERTZ when Bujalski does far more than merely ... ahem ... MUMBLE his own thoughts on the answer.  

This week Matt and Mark review the 2013 film Computer Chess. Like Terminator's man-vs-machine themes (without time travel and plasma-rifle wielding cyborg killers), Computer Chess is an idiosyncratic look at humanity's constant yearning to recreate itself. When we finally stumble upon the holy grail of Vinge's Singularity, mid-80's nerd competitions in a nondescript Holiday Inn will usurp Newton's Apple as the defining moment of human progress.Download:  223 Computer Chess

Desempolva tu Spectrum o tu Commodore 64 y recuerda cuando trastear con un ordenador era algo mágico y casi inexplicable. Jobs y la serie Halt & Catch Fire nos sirve de excusa para hablar de películas con hackers adolescentes, computadores que cobran vida y empresarios geniales. De clásicos 80s com Juegos de Guerra o Exploradores a Computer Chess, pasando por los nerds de La revancha de los novatos o el terror de Engendro Mecánico. Contamos con Bruno Sol, histórico de Hobby Consolas, Superjuegos y Retrogamer como asesor y compañero de risas. Y de propina... ¡vuelve la serie Z y el cine chungo con la #Monstrua666! Os lo contamos todos sobre el evento que organizamos y que os va a dejar picuetos.

Desempolva tu Spectrum o tu Commodore 64 y recuerda cuando trastear con un ordenador era algo mágico y casi inexplicable. Jobs y la serie Halt & Catch Fire nos sirve de excusa para hablar de películas con hackers adolescentes, computadores que cobran vida y empresarios geniales. De clásicos 80s com Juegos de Guerra o Exploradores a Computer Chess, pasando por los nerds de La revancha de los novatos o el terror de Engendro Mecánico. Contamos con Bruno Sol, histórico de Hobby Consolas, Superjuegos y Retrogamer como asesor y compañero de risas. Y de propina... ¡vuelve la serie Z y el cine chungo con la #Monstrua666! Os lo contamos todos sobre el evento que organizamos y que os va a dejar picuetos.

Lee and Daniel are back and this time Daniel has picked both movies reviewed for this episode. First off they look at a little Euro sex in "The Libertine" (1960) and then they move on to a strange pseudo-doc surrounding the people involved in a 1980s computer chess competition in (you guessed it) 2013's "Computer Chess". Also: listener comments, what we've been watching, and a list of recommended films/documentaries to help one better understand the religious right in America. Featured Music: "Brute Calculations" by Morgan Coy. IMDB links for the recommended films/docs: Saved! (2004)  The Revisionaries (2012) Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus (2006) Journeys with George (2002) Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (2008)

Main Review: Blackhat Film Club Review: Sneakers Top 5 Hacker Movies What Else We Watched (Black Sea, Leviathan, Computer Chess, This Is Where I Leave You) News Pre-Judgement Day (The Stanford Prison Experiment, Kung Fu Panda 3, Sicario) Next Week Preview (American Sniper, Chappie, Unforgiven, Top 5 Clint Eastwood Movies)

It's finally here! The premiere episode of Decades of Cinema! Below are various ways of listening to the show and links followed by a rundown of this episode's film list! Enjoy!Embedded version!Or, download the show directly!Available in .M4A or .MP3 format. Or check out DoC in the iTunes Store.E-mail us directly with any questions or comments and also to submit your own movie lists for consideration for our show-ending segment Rapid Fire Reviews! Our official e-mail address is: decadesofcinema@yahoo.comIf you are a Letterboxd user here's a DoC Episode #1 list there if you want to follow along at home and use it track which films from this episode you've seen!Without further adieu -- here's this episode's films!1890sComic Costume Race (Paul, 1896)1900sThe Dancing Pig (1907)1910sBroken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (Griffith, 1919)1920sMan with a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929)1930sAlexander Nevsky (Eisenstein, Vasilev, 1938) 1940sThe Magnificent Ambersons (Welles, 1942)1950sHiroshima Mon Amour (Resnais, 1959)1960sSpartacus (Kubrick, 1960)1970sMark of the Devil (Armstrong, Hoven, 1970)1980sFitzcarraldo (Herzog, 1982)1990sThe Long Day Closes (Davies, 1992)2000sCastaway on the Moon (Lee, 2009)2010sJohn Carter (Stanton, 2012)Rapid Fire ReviewsMr. Jones (Mueller, 2013), Computer Chess (Bujalski, 2013), The Internship (Levy, 2013), The Signal (Eubank, 2014), The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (Robinson, 2014), and My Dinner with Andre (Malle, 1981)Remember to e-mail us at decadesofcinema@yahoo.com to send in your comment, questions, and requests for the Rapid Fire Reviews segment! Thanks for the support and we'll see you at the movies!

Your move, listeners.  What's that?  No, you can't castle your king a second time!  Dammit, you don't know the rules of chess!  That's okay, because now there are computers who can play the game for us! This phenomenon dates back to the 1980's, which is the setting for Andrew Bujalski's one-of-a-kind comedy, "Computer Chess."  This indie film was shot using a black and white Sony videocamera from 1968, lending the film a highly authentic look and feel.  Perfect casting, costumes and production design also give this mumblecore flick a disarming naturalness.  But what's happening onscreen is often weird and hilarious.  A computer chess tournament is the premise, but this film explores issues of artificial intelligence, organic emotions vs. programmed technology, and lots of long-haired cats roaming around in elevators and hotel hallways.  There is also an inexplicable scene that is in vivid color.  Bonus points to any listener who can explain the purpose of that.  Jeff, a return listener, makes this film his third recommendation for "In the Queue."  Glad to have you back, Jeff! Tune in to hear Phil and Andrew's opinions on "Computer Chess", a film the likes of which you have never seen!You can download the podcast here by right-clicking on the hypertext link and choosing "save as", or you can use the convenient player located below:If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here

This week I stupidly cover 3 Atari games, Codebreaker, Flag Capture and Video Chess. Stupidly only because it was Easter and I was more busy than I've ever been. Sometimes 3 in a show is a necessary evil. Next week I'll be delving into Title Match Pro Wrestling and Skateboardin' by Absolute. Upcoming games include Pac-Man by Atari; Magicard and Video Life by CommaVid; Submarine Commander and Video Pinball by Atari; Thunderground and Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator by Sega; Asteroids and Berzerk by Atari (if that show isn't close to 90 minutes with feedback then I'm doing something wrong); and Cross Force and Tapeworm by Spectravision. If you have any stories or memories of any of these games that you would like to share, please send them to 2600gamebygame@comcast.net. This of course is not a guarantee that I will read it on the correct show, as I am wont to overlook them sometimes. I just realized I forgot to read Jeff's email this week, I apologize to Jeff and I will read them on next week's show. I hate it when I do that. Thanks for listening everyone. Pertinent Links Venetian Blinds by Activision on Atari Protos site Computer Chess by Atari on Atari Protos site Win a free game on the Retro Junkies Forum! Willie's Video for the Retro Junkies 5000 likes contest! Intellivision vs. Atari VCS Chess! Proud member of the Throwback Network! Proud member of the Retro Junkies Network! Facebook page Twitter page Blog page Listen to the show on the Retro Junkies website!    

On this edition of the podcast Robert Davis and J. Robert Parks talk about Spike Jonze's HER and Andrew Bujalski's COMPUTER CHESS.

Next episode will be the Favorites of 2013 so you still have some time to email us your list. While Donny is still away on business Jim and Darrell discuss some movies and tv they caught up on while off for the holidays like: American Hustle , Hobbit 2, Computer Chess, Covert Affairs Season 4, The Bridge, Burn Notice the finale, and Nikita. We are now on Stitcher radio Send any feedback to nothingsonpodcast@gmail.com http://www.hhwlod.com/ http://thetaylornetwork.wordpress.com/

Next episode will be the Favorites of 2013 so you still have some time to email us your list. While Donny is still away on business Jim and Darrell discuss some movies and tv they caught up on while off for the holidays like: American Hustle , Hobbit 2, Computer Chess, Covert Affairs Season 4, The Bridge, Burn Notice the finale, and Nikita. We are now on Stitcher radio Send any feedback to nothingsonpodcast@gmail.com http://www.hhwlod.com/ http://thetaylornetwork.wordpress.com/

This week the gang talks about Wolf of Wall Street, 47 Ronin, Computer Chess and an Interview with (Rotten Tomatoes) film critic Felix Vasquez Jr. Check out The Backseat World Premiere in New York City on Saturday, January 11th. You can find full specific details for the premiere here and you can view a trailer for the movie here! Cinema Crazed Film Threat

Merry Christmas!, Another Podcast, The Clinic, Computer Chess, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Matt Smith's Final Doctor Who Episode, Highlander, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, Neonomicon, Hyper Light Drifter, Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP, Mari0, Dungeons and Dragons Starter Set 4th Edition Red Box, Computer Books, Jessops, Lua and LOVE, Paper!, Q10, TreePad Lite, Enjoy Christmas!

Movies: The Clinic, Computer Chess, The Hunger Games Catching Fire (mentioned later in the podcast, AFTER DD Red Box), TV: Doctor Who Matt Smith's Final Episode, Highlander, Once Upon A Time In Wonderland, Comics: Neonomicon, Games: Hyperlight Drifter, Games: Hyperlight Drifter, Other New Retro Games, Toys: DD Red Box, Technology: Computer books, Jessops, Lua and Love2D, Paper, Q10, Treepad Lite

Movies: The Clinic, Computer Chess, The Hunger Games Catching Fire (mentioned later in the podcast, AFTER DD Red Box), TV: Doctor Who Matt Smith's Final Episode, Highlander, Once Upon A Time In Wonderland, Comics: Neonomicon, Games: Hyperlight Drifter, Games: Hyperlight Drifter, Other New Retro Games, Toys: DD Red Box, Technology: Computer books, Jessops, Lua and Love2D, Paper, Q10, Treepad Lite

This week Sean and Mike shut out the rest of the world and get lost in their own infinite loops as they tackle Andrew Bujalski's 2013 film Computer Chess and Satyajit Ray's 1977 The Chess Players. They also run-down their plans for list-making season, make fun of the Independent Spirit Awards and talk about how great Terrence Malick is on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

Main Review: R.I.P.D. Top 5 Jeff Bridges Movies Film Club Review: Fargo What Else We Watched (The Queen of Versailles, Pitch Perfect, Red 2, Troll Hunter, Computer Chess, The To Do List, The Tiger Woods Story) News Next Week Preview (The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, Top 5 Young Adult Adaptations)

Montages ser to Xavier Dolans siste film «Tom à la ferme» og den meget spesielle «Computer Chess» fra regissør Andrew Bujalski.

In Folge 2 unseres Filmpodcasts sprechen Jan und Conrad zusammen mit Florian Feick (CinemaForever, Das Manifest) über den neuen Paul-Greengrass-Film "Captain Phillips" mit Tom Hanks in der Hauptrolle. Außerdem widmen sie sich dem aktuellen Film von Mumblecore-Ikone Andrew Bujalski "Computer Chess" und als Hausaufgabe steht dieses mal Brian De Palmas Erotik-Thriller "Dressed to Kill" auf dem Programm.Viel Vergnügen!Inhalt:0:00:00 - Einleitung0:03:36 - "Captain Phillips" und das Genre des Doku-Dramas0:36:11 - "Computer Chess" oder die Frage nach künstlicher Intelligenz im Indie-Kino1:06:10 - Die Hausaufgabe: "Dressed To Kill"Mehr zu Filmen, Serien & Co. gibt es auf CinemaForever zu lesen!

This week's episode of Beginnings is an oldie (as in a month and half old) but a goodie (as in the guests were super-fun). Earlier in the summer, I was invited to host a live Beginnings down in Austin, Texas right before Labor Day weekend as part of the Out of Bounds comedy festival. While the venue - the corner of a coffeeshop - was perhaps not the best place to record a podcast, we had some amazing guests that brought their A-game. Along with my lovely fiancee, stand-up Naomi Ekperigin, I was joined by film directors Todd Rohal (The Catechism Cataclysm, Nature Calls) and Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha, Computer Chess) and stand-up Joe DeRosa (Return of the Son of Depression Auction, Opie and Anthony), and we had a wide-ranging discussion about angry childhood experiences, the best start to a fight ever, Prince, telepathic spiders, high school rap dreams, horrifying tales of summer camp, and Little Caesars. And in the second half of the show, I talk to improviser and actor Dan Fox about bullying and being bullied at school. Thanks for listening!Check out the website for Beginnings, subscribe on iTunes, and follow me on Twitter!

This week: pioneering indie filmmaker Andrew Bujalski plays “Computer Chess” and speaks up about mumblecore… SCTV alum and Tony-winner Andrea Martin gets car-jacked, politely… Debut novelist Gabriel Roth debuts a list of debuts… “Blackfish” director Gabriela Cowperthwaite plunges into controversy… and NYC’s Russ & Daughters celebrate herring season by teaching Brendan to eat like a marine […]

Dan and Danielle talk about the film adaptation Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) and discuss the toxic, cut-throat world of sales. Later they take calls and they hear from Studio Kittie, Angry Guy, and more. Links for this episode:Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) - IMDbAn examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office. Glengarry Glen Ross speech - YouTubeBlake was written into the script by David Mamet for the film version of Glengarry Glen Ross (1992). Alec Baldwin's portrayal of the vitriol-spewing sales coach has lost none of its sting since the film's release and continues to be widely circulated as a testament to America's occupational and economic anxieties. Why do employees stop caring? (and how to change that) | JordonCooper.comCorp Stooge Diary - Entries - Stooge ready to quitA day in the life of the Corporate Stooge 5by5 | Quit! #19: A New Level of Disgruntled5:30 The first appearance of Angry Guy, Chris Glengarry Glen Ross (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia“I can speak only to a…‘Mrs. Nyborg.’” | kung fu grippekittienumnums (kittienumnums) on TwitterNextDraft: The Day's Most Fascinating News by Dave PellCOMPUTER CHESSSponsored by Squarespace. Use code STOOGE6 for a free trial and 10% off.

This week we have two great interviews lined up: 00:05:10 - 00:12:33 First we speak with director Tony Blahd on his film ROVER (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/494503324/rover-feature-film-post-production) 00:12:51 - 00:42:36 Then we have a chat with directors Keir Politz and Damon Maulucci on their film DETONATOR (http://detonatormovie.com) We follow that up with some more SXSW 2013 coverage with some brief discussion about Holy Ghost People, Spring Breakers, Rewind This, Loves Her Gun, Computer Chess, The Retrieval, Hey Bartender, and And Who Taught You to Drive (all reviews are available at filmpulse.net/reviews) And finally we go over this week's predictions and DVD and Blu Ray releases We want to hear your suggestions and feedback! Send us an e-mail at feedback@filmpulse.net or leave us a message on our voicemail line at (850) 391-6071 and we'll feature your comments on the show!

An in depth chat with Andrew Bujalski, writer-director of such films as Funny Ha-Ha (forerunner of the so-called mumblecore movement), Mutual Appreciation, Beeswax, and the upcoming Computer Chess. Recorded June 7, 2012.