{"id":13876,"date":"2020-11-11T20:30:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T01:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13876"},"modified":"2020-11-11T20:04:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T01:04:52","slug":"symbiopsychotaxiplasm-take-one-1968-william-greaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13876","title":{"rendered":"Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968, William Greaves)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greaves and his crew film in the park (they have permits!) a couple of actors performing a trite scene &#8211; but they&#8217;re also filming themselves filming these things, and filming the director trying to work things out, and filming the crew voicing their concerns about the scene and the director.  It&#8217;s an exciting concept, hampered by the small problem of being no fun to watch.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose these are professionals, not hippies, but it&#8217;s still 1968 and listening to them talk invites dark flashbacks of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4618\">Lions Love<\/a><\/em>.  And the editing of individual scenes is nice but the overall structure seems slack and random &#8211; I want to have examples, but Criterion Channel is mad that I&#8217;ve got an external monitor attached, so it&#8217;s not letting me review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greaves and his crew film in the park (they have permits!) a couple of actors performing a trite scene &#8211; but they&#8217;re also filming themselves filming these things, and filming the director trying to work things out, and filming the crew voicing their concerns about the scene and the director. It&#8217;s an exciting concept, hampered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,13,93,2234,265,2752],"class_list":["post-13876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-criterion","tag-documentary","tag-film-criticism","tag-meta","tag-william-greaves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13913,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876\/revisions\/13913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}