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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
EAN: 0796019796156
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Ifc
Manufacturer: Ifc
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Ifc
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 07, 2006
Running Time: 85 minutes
Sales Rank: 4522
Studio: Ifc
Theatrical Release Date: June 23, 2006
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Description:
Witness the inner workings of Will Shortz, NY Times Editor and NPR Puzzle Master, and his brilliant, entertaining and often hilarious contributors as well as surprising celebrity fans. Wordplay takes us through the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament where almost five hundred competitors battled it out for the title 'Crossword Champ' and showed their true colors along the way.
Amazon.com:
The linguistic ballet of the crossword puzzle and the obsessive minds that wrestle with them are a source of delight in the charming documentary Wordplay. Though there's no story, the movie has a definite hero: Will Shortz, the editor of the New York Times crossword puzzle, universally acknowledged as the pinnacle of crosswords. Shortz comes across as clever but modest; though he's at the top of his particular world, he retains a bemused perspective on that world's limitations. Though speckled with celebrities from former President Bill Clinton to the Indigo Girls, the most engaging interviews are with puzzle creator Merl Reagle (who gives a fascinating on-screen demonstration of how he starts making a puzzle) and the witty and garrulous commentary by the former public editor for the Times, Daniel Okrent. Like many recent documentaries, Wordplay is built around a competition: The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, an annual event started by Shortz and embraced by people who have devoted an alarming amount of their brain space to filling squares with letters. Though the movie is not as emotionally involving as Spellbound--still the ne plus ultra of nerdy documentaries--Wordplay's window into its particular subculture will be enjoyable to non-crossword fans as well as committed puzzleheads.--Bret Fetzer
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In 1978, Will Shortz, editor of the New York Times crossword puzzle, started the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament traditionally held every year (until this year) in Stamford, Connecticut. "Wordplay" is not only about Shortz and fellow puzzle makers like Mel Reagle, but about contestants in the tournament as well as famous crossword puzzle fans such as Bill Clinton, the Indigo Girls, Jon Stewart, Mike Mussina and Ken Burns.
"Wordplay" is an interesting documentary about the ... Read More
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I first saw this film on the big screen with my friend Jared Feldman in Washington, DC. We loved the movie and would often quote the film.
I recently re-watched the film, and found it as wonderful the second time. For a word dork like myself, it was a pleasure to watch.
-Jeremy Paul Gallagher
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This is probably a film for crossword fans, though anyone who has ever wondered about people who seem hooked on crosswords will find this documentary a bit of a revelation, too. There are surprising moments in the film - first about things you take for granted. Where did crosswords come from and what are the underlying "rules" of creating crosswords? How does someone create a crossword? Who is responsible for the daily NY Times crosswords, and how did that get to be a real job? Then there are curious ... Read More
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Anyone who is a crossword "nut" will appreciate this humorous and interesting documentary. I had no idea that there were actually over 100 crossword constructors that worked on each New York Times Crossword. I guess I felt that most of it was done by computers. Loved it.
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For anyone who likes working crosswords or who wonders how crosswords are created, this movie is a must. The people featured in the film are fascinating--all are word freaks who are students of the written word and who use their knowledge to work and/or create crosswords.
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