Groundbreaking filmmaker William Greaves created a prescient meta-masterpiece with his 1968 mockumentary SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM, which fashioned a multilayered study of the filmmaking process with the movie-within-a-movie scenario of a documentary crew shooting a film crew shooting a film. This special edition double-disc set from Criterion also includes the sequel SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE 2 1/2 (2005), produced by Steven Soderbergh and Steve Buscemi, which finds the director, stars, and crew revisiting the same situation 35 years later.
SPECIAL FEATURES: DISC ONE: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One
New high-definition digital transfer
Discovering William Greaves, a new documentary on Greaves's career, featuring Greaves, his wife and coproducer Louise Archambault, actor Ruby Dee, filmmaker St. Clair Bourne, and film scholar Scott MacDonald
Theatrical trailer
DISC TWO: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take 2 1/2
New digital transfer
New video interview with actor Steve Buscemi
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Amy Taubin and production notes by Greaves for Take One
