DECEMBER 

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm

Synopsis courtesy of Criterion co.

"Here is an open-ended film, with no plot we can see, no end that we can see, and action we cant follow, frets a sound man in William Greavess one-of-a-kind fiction/documentary hybrid Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One. Director Greaves presides over his beleaguered film crew in New Yorks Central Park in 1968, leaving them to try to glean what kind of movie theyre making from what theyre seeing: a strange, bickering couple enacting a break-up scenario over and over, a documentary crew filming a crew filming the crew, locals wandering casually into the frame. Multilayered and wildly entertaining, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One defies easy description yet remains one of the most tightly focused movies ever made about making movies. Criterion presents this long-unreleased gem in a special two-disc edition, along with its sequel, made thirty-five years later, which revisits the same characters and further blurs the line between reality and fiction."

Special Features 

William Greavess full-length 2005 sequel, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take 2 1/2 
New program about Greavess career, featuring Greaves, Louise Archambault, actress Ruby Dee, filmmaker St. Clair Bourne, and film scholar Scott MacDonald 
New video interview with actor Steve Buscemi 
Plus: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Amy Taubin and production notes by Greaves

The Beales of Grey Gardens 

Special Features 

New digital transfer, approved by director Albert Maysles 
New video introduction by Maysles 
Plus: A new essay by cultural critic Michael Musto

Grey Gardens (re-release)

Special Features 

DISC ONE: Grey Gardens 

Audio commentary by filmmakers Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer, and Susan Froemke 
Excerpts from a recorded interview with Little Edie Beale by Kathryn G. Graham for Interview magazine (1976) 
Video interviews with fashion designers Todd Oldham and John Bartlett on the influence of Grey Gardens 
Filmographies 

DISC TWO: The Beales of Grey Gardens