Fresh
A movie from the past that's also eerily of a piece with the film culture of now and tomorrow.
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
1968 · 1h 15m · NOT RATED
Documentary
Directed by
William Greaves
Overview
In Manhattan's Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen test with various pairs of actors. It's a confrontation between a couple: he demands to know what's wrong, she challenges his sexual orientation. Cameras shoot the exchange, and another camera records Greaves and his crew. Sometimes we watch the crew discussing this scene, its language, and the process of making a movie. Is there such a thing as natural language? Are all things related to sex? The camera records distractions - a woman rides horseback past them; a garrulous homeless vet who sleeps in the park chats them up. What's the nature of making a movie?
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Greaves's place in history is unarguable, whether it's then, now, in the future, or all of the above.
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
Fresh
Made in 1968, William Greaves's fiction-nonfiction hybrid playfully takes itself apart scene by scene, code by code, in a bid to reveal how cinematic illusions are manufactured.
Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Fresh
Remains as risk-taking as ever, challenging assumptions about cinema, storytelling and the gossamer boundaries between fiction and fact.
John Anderson, Newsday
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