Chess in movies is never just about chess. It’s about geopolitics, as in Pawn Sacrifice, or self-actualization, as in Queen to Play, or the tribulations of coming of age, as in Searching for Bobby Fischer. And in the greatest of all chess films, The Seventh Seal, it’s literally a matter of life and death. For a game so pensive, cerebral and seemingly un-cinematic, it’s … [Read more...]