Genres: Special Interest, Criterion Collection, 60s, Documentary, Film about Film
Cast: Patricia Ree Gilbert, Don Fellows, Jonathan Gordon, Bob Rosen
Director: William Greaves
Synopsis: In his one-of-a-kind fiction/documentary hybrid, SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE, director William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York's Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they're making. A couple enacts a break-up scenario over and over, a documentary crew films a crew filming the crew, locals wander casually into the frame: the project defies easy description. Yet this wildly innovative sixties counterculture landmark remains one of the most tightly focused and insightful movies ever made about making movies. Criterion presents this long-unreleased gem along with its sequel, SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE 2 1/2, made 35 years later with executive producers Steven Soderbergh and Steve Buscemi.
Language: English
Country of Origin: United States of America
Production Year: 1968
- Release Date: Dec 5th, 2006
- Catalog Number: CC1660DDVD
- UPC: 715515021029
- Rating: Not Rated
- Run Time: 75
- Color Format: Color
- Audio: PCM Mono
- Language: English
- 16:9: No
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of Discs: 2
- Closed Captions: No
- Subtitle: English
- Special Features:
2005 sequel, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take 2 1/2
New high-definition digital transfer
New program about Greaves's career
New video interview with actor Steve Buscemi
Theatrical trailer
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
New essay by critic Amy Taubin and production notes by Greaves






