"Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film."
February 25, 2005
What do the films The Seventh Seal, 2001, An American Werewolf in London, Monkey Business, and The Abominable Dr. Phibes have in common? They all feature scenes with chess playing. These films, and many, many more, are featured in the Chess In The Cinema site, which exhaustively tries to list every movie with a scene featuring either chess playing, or even a chessboard. They have a count of 604 so far, and I'll be damned if I could find one that they've missed.
posted by Sean on 2/25/2005 08:59:00 AM| link