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Overview

A one-of-a-kind fiction/documentary hybrid series.

  • Number of Movies: 2
  • Revenue: -

Featured Cast

  1. William Greaves

    William Greaves

    Himself / Director, Himself

  2. Patricia Ree Gilbert

    Patricia Ree Gilbert

    Herself / Actress Testing for Alice

  3. Don Fellows

    Don Fellows

    Himself / Actor Testing for Freddy

  4. Steve Buscemi

    Steve Buscemi

    Himself

  5. Audrey Heningham

    Black Lady Clapping Her Hands (uncredited), Alice

  6. Jonathan Gordon

    Jonathan Gordon

    Himself / Soundman, Himself

  7. Shannon Baker

    Freddie

  8. Susan Anspach

    Susan Anspach

    Herself / Actress Testing for Alice (uncredited)

  9. Marcia Karp

    Marcia Karp

    Psychodramatist

  10. Stevan Larner

    Stevan Larner

    Himself / Cameraman (uncredited)

  11. Terence Macartney-Filgate

    Terence Macartney-Filgate

    Himself / Cameraman (uncredited)

  12. Maria Zeheri

    Herself / Camera Assistant (uncredited)

  13. Robert L. Rosen

    Himself / Production Manager (as Bob Rosen)

Featured Crew

  1. William Greaves

    William Greaves

    Writing, Directing

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?

A movie about making movies about making movies. In 1968, William Greaves shot several pairs of actors in a scene in which a woman confronts her husband and ends their relationship. In "Take 2 1/2," Greaves starts with 1968 takes of one of these pairs of actors plus footage of the crew discussing the film's progress. Then, 35 years later, Greaves brings back to Central Park those actors and some of the original crew (plus others) to film a reunion of the characters Alice and Freddie. We watch scenes of these characters and discussions among the actors and crew. Greaves explores and dramatizes the dialectic in the creative process.

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