Anybody see "Wordplay," the docu on the NYT Crossword Puzzle?

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Saw this flick two days ago, and I really enjoyed it. Having Jon Stewart, Bill Clinton, and Bob Dole pop up was extra fun, but the I really dug how they were able to build a narrative around the championship. Pretty damn good RT/MC reviews, too.

what say you?

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 26 June 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't seen it yet, but a friend of mine saw the sneak preview and said it was pretty great. So I will try to see it at some point.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 26 June 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Predictably, I am hotly anticipating this.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 26 June 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I think you'd really dig it.

Plus, i got a kick out of the fact that I saw one of the ex-music directors of my old station wandering around in the hotel scenes.

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 26 June 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

Clips and trailers here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/wordplay/

Looks fun. Am I right in thinking that the NYT crossword would be known as quick rather than crpytic in the UK?

― caek (caek), Monday, 26 June 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

i edited a piece about it!

but i haven't seen it yet.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 26 June 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

this is gonna be really bad, isn't it? like a cross between the TMBG documentary and the scrabble movie (actually i liked the scrabble movie because all the hardcore competitors were completely batshit and/or barely functional).

― aimee semple mcmansion (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

bill clinton is in it yo.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

(inspiring one of my proudest moments in photo-caption writing: "scandal-prone prez (4,7)")

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

Am I right in thinking that the NYT crossword would be known as quick rather than crpytic in the UK?

Yes, but it's got Listener-style tricks and gimmicks to it.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

This will be all over the Sundance Channel by next winter. How many minutes of Mike Mussina?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

Would love to see even though I already read CROSSWORLD, which came out a year or two ago and covers a lot of the same ground (and was sort of impishly droll in its own right). Am sort of surprised not to find any link between book and movie (on the basis of a quick google) -- interesting timing, then.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

is there a thread for the Al Gore flick?

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

i think it's called "an inconvenient thread"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

An Inconvenient Thread

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but it's got Listener-style tricks and gimmicks to it.

What are these? They sound fun.

― caek (caek), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

Listener-style tricks?

― A Century Of Elvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 April 2010 23:15 (fifteen years ago)

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