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?
Directed by William Greaves
big city
avant-garde
filmmaking
cameraman
cinéma vérité
non-narrative
cast and crew
film director
film crew
film within a film
arguing couple
experimental
Rank
#17 in 1968·#1559 overall
Trailer
IMDB
N/A
Letterboxd
4.0 / 5
Cast
Patricia Ree Gilbert
Self - Actress Testing for Alice
Don Fellows
Self - Actor Testing for Freddy
Jonathan Gordon
Self - Soundman
William Greaves
Self - Director
Susan Anspach
Self - Actress Testing for Alice (uncredited)
Stevan Larner
Self - Cameraman (uncredited)
Terence Macartney-Filgate
Self - Cameraman (uncredited)
Louise Archambault Greaves
Self - Actress Testing for Alice (uncredited)
Crew
William Greaves
Director
William Greaves
Writer
William Greaves
Editor
Terence Macartney-Filgate
Director of Photography
Stevan Larner
Director of Photography
William Greaves
Producer
Miles Davis
Music
Jonathan Gordon
Sound
Popular Reviews
122 reviews
Max
10.0★ · 01/08/26
omfg, in love with every single frame of this
omfg, in love with every single frame of this
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SKTUD
this film is fascinating. i'd love to direct the kind of film that makes all of the cast members conduct meetings behind my back to discuss its philosophical and artistic implications.
this film is fascinating. i'd love to direct the kind of film that makes all of the cast members conduct meetings behind my back to discuss its philosophical and artistic implications.
Jasper Platt
Why’d his Jewish accent sound like my aunt
Why’d his Jewish accent sound like my aunt
PJ
9.0★ · 03/30/26
Yes i too am an intellectual.
But in all serious this film/documentary/metacommentary/whatever is a work of genius.
Yes i too am an intellectual.
But in all serious this film/documentary/metacommentary/whatever is a work of genius.
Aedan
8.0★ · 03/29/26
The definition of finding the movie in the edit. I’m guessing. Idk shit man.
The definition of finding the movie in the edit. I’m guessing. Idk shit man.
