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- 2005
- Not Rated
- Janus Films
- 1 h 15 m
- 2005
- Not Rated
- Janus Films
- 1 h 15 m
Summary Cinema verite reaches a new level of reality in this 1968 film-within-a-film as director William Greaves dares to break the accepted rules of cinema. (William Greaves Productions)
Directed By: William Greaves
Written By: William Greaves
- 2005
- Not Rated
- Janus Films
- 1 h 15 m
- 2005
- Not Rated
- Janus Films
- 1 h 15 m
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
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Summary Cinema verite reaches a new level of reality in this 1968 film-within-a-film as director William Greaves dares to break the accepted rules of cinema. (William Greaves Productions)
Directed By: William Greaves
Written By: William Greaves
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Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
71
75% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
25% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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This is a movie from the past that's also eerily of a piece with the film culture of now and tomorrow.
If all this sounds a bit nuts, dangerously self-indulgent and very of its experimental moment, it is. But it's also highly entertaining and, at moments, revelatory about filmmaking as a site of creative tension between individual vision and collective endeavor.
The title modifies a term coined by political scientist and philosopher Arthur Bentley that refers to the interactions between people and their environment, and the notion of a shifting center is what gives this experiment much of its interest and also limits it from going very far in any single direction.
May be the ultimate paradigm of self-reflexive cinema, eating Godard's tail for him and one-upping the classic anti-cartoon Duck Amuck by submitting to a cunning entropy and a self-inquiry so relentless the movie never moves from square one.
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Production Company
Take One Productions
Release Date Oct 26, 2005
Duration 1 h 15 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
National Film Preservation Board, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
