Pawn Sacrifice (Bobby Fischer film)

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Re: TV streaming

Post by Carl Hibbard » Mon Aug 14, 2017 6:15 am

Christopher Kreuzer wrote:Maybe merge with this thread?

http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php ... 57#p203957
Done

Is it worth watching?
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Re: Pawn Sacrifice (Bobby Fischer film)

Post by Stewart Reuben » Sun Aug 27, 2017 6:31 pm

I saw Pawn Sacrifice in Gibraltar during the congress. I am not qualified to judge whether it is a good film as I knew too many of the people portrayed.

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Re: Pawn Sacrifice (Bobby Fischer film)

Post by Geoff Chandler » Tue Aug 29, 2017 12:17 pm

I enjoyed it and I know some non-players did as well.

Pity you never got involved as a consulter that would have removed
some of the basic errors. (Bobby opening 1.h4 h5 from a Russian mag)
and yet there must have been some research in the background because
the scene where Bobby shows Lombardy how he could have won v Petrosian
is spot on regarding date, position and the analysis is good.

Petrosian - Lombardy, Zurich 1961




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Re: Pawn Sacrifice (Bobby Fischer film)

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Tue Aug 29, 2017 12:35 pm

It is like pulling teeth to find the release dates in the small arthouse-type cinemas that are showing this film.

Quite a few showings in Cardiff in the first week of September, in the 'Chapter' multi-artform cultural space:

https://www.chapter.org/pawn-sacrifice-12

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Re: Pawn Sacrifice (Bobby Fischer film)

Post by Adam Raoof » Tue Aug 29, 2017 12:37 pm

still on youtube search for pawn sacrifice full movie
Christopher Kreuzer wrote:It is like pulling teeth to find the release dates in the small arthouse-type cinemas that are showing this film.

Quite a few showings in Cardiff in the first week of September, in the 'Chapter' multi-artform cultural space:

https://www.chapter.org/pawn-sacrifice-12
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Re: TV streaming

Post by JustinHorton » Sat Oct 07, 2017 7:30 pm

Carl Hibbard wrote:
Christopher Kreuzer wrote:Maybe merge with this thread?

http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php ... 57#p203957
Done

Is it worth watching?
I saw it yesterday.

It is embarrassingly poor, though I quite liked Peter Sarsgaard's performance as Lombardy. Everything else is cliché at best.
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Re: TV streaming

Post by Carl Hibbard » Sun Oct 08, 2017 5:57 am

JustinHorton wrote:
Carl Hibbard wrote:
Christopher Kreuzer wrote:Maybe merge with this thread?

http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php ... 57#p203957
Done

Is it worth watching?
I saw it yesterday.

It is embarrassingly poor, though I quite liked Peter Sarsgaard's performance as Lombardy. Everything else is cliché at best.
Thanks I started watching it on Amazon but turned it off in the middle somewhere.
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Re: Pawn Sacrifice (Bobby Fischer film)

Post by Matt Fletcher » Sun Oct 08, 2017 10:14 am

Did anyone else notice that the scene where Fischer storms out because of Russian collusion (agreeing draws between themselves) was set at the Olympiad? I know there were other glaring inaccuracies, but for some reason that was the one that was the most jarring to me.

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I liked Lombardy too, but thought a lot of the rest was nonsense.