Bobby Fischer Against The World
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| HBO | Release Date: June 6, 2011 |
Summary:
Directed by Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Liz Garbus, explores the complex life of the troubled genius whose charisma and talent spurred a worldwide fascination with chess.
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Sports, Drama, Documentary
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Season 1 Review:
Garbus, director of the Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning "The Farm: Angola, USA," fills in many of the blanks--to an impressive extent, given the obsessively guarded privacy of her subject--in a film that is both meditative and exciting, like the game it concerns, and mercilessly penetrating even as it reserves judgment on a man whose outrageousness practically demands it.
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Season 1 Review:
The film, which kicks off HBO's long, annual summer of well-curated documentary offerings on Monday nights, is certainly absorbing. For those only vaguely familiar with the competitive chess circuit (or even the game's 1,500-year history), Bobby Fischer Against the World is both an easy introduction and a thorough recounting of Fischer's improbable rise to superstardom some 40 years ago.
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