A FEW PRESS REACTIONS...

"Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One ventures into uncertain terrain that few films, before or since, have dared even contemplate… A rare time capsule that time cannot encapsulate."
                     Wade Major, Boxoffice Magazine, December 2005

"Fascinating... Highly entertaining and, at moments, revelatory... It's a wonderful gift to us that SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE has finally made it into theaters.
                     Manohla Dargis, The New York Times, October 26, 2005
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"Greaves's place in history is unarguable, whether it's then, now, in the future, or all of the above."
                     Atkinson, Village Voice, October 26-November 1, 2005

"Groovy masterpiece"
                     Melissa Anderson, Time Out, October 27 - Novemeber 2, 2005

"[Take One] remains as risk-taking as ever, challenging assumptions about cinema, storytelling and the gossamer boundaries between fiction and fact."
                     John Anderson, Newsday, October 26, 2005

"A blast from the past that's as fresh as tomorrow."
                     Nathan Lee, The New York Sun, October 26, 2005

 “… a witty, still-timely and extraordinary satire on filmmaking theory and technique that ranks with the liveliest formal experiments of Jean-Luc Godard, John Cassavetes and Andy Warhol.”
                    Armond White, The City Sun

“… a movie that enters our film history so decisively it seems like it’s always been there.”
                   J. Hoberman, The Village Voice

“The structure of this work – now hailed as a landmark in black American cinema – is a film-within-a-film, but that is only the staring point.”
                   Desmond Ryan, The Philadelphia Inquirer

“…an unappreciated gem.”
                   David Sterritt, The Christian Science Monitor

“… a lost treasure. Pre-dating much of the New American Cinema of the late sixties, TAKE ONE is a rare example of American New Wave filmmaking…”
                   The Brooklyn Museum’s Program Notes 

“… the film holds up now in terms of relevance better than ever. When it’s not just plain funny, it’s brutally hones.  As much as the crew in the film questions the motives and mentality of their director, in real life, we find ourselves questioning the assumptions that inform our actions and reactions in various political scenarios.
                    Tom Wachunas, The Phoenix

“The Dead Sea Scrolls can now be seen by anyone, and so too can SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE… this 1968 movie will be making more than a few waves in the year to come, as critics and viewers alike discover it.”
                    Phil Anderson, Minneapolis City Pages

 

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