Fri September 12, 2014
Sympathy for the Devil (Jean-Luc Godard; UK, 1968)
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Originally titled One Plus One, the film was re-edited and retitled by the producer, without Godard’s permission. Ill-received by both critics and public on its release, it was re-evaluated by Andrew Hussey in The Guardian: “This is one of those rare and unsettling examples of a rock film, which has all the immediacy of reportage from a distant war-zone. . . . Godard . . . briefly left Paris for London in the wake of the Paris riots of May '68 with the aim of making a film about art, power and revolution. The Stones . . . were, as Godard saw it, perfect for the role of agents of anarchy in a movie whose stated aim was to 'subvert, ruin and destroy all civilized values.' The studio scenes are punctuated by a series of set pieces—an incoherent stew of Situationism and other Sixties stuff . . . Black Panthers . . . Maoist hippies . . . a female urban guerilla. . . . (A) snapshot of a far-off, lost world where rock music is still a redemptive and revolutionary force.”
• Written by Godard. Photographed by Tony Richmond. With the Rolling Stones, Anne Wiazemsky, Ian Quarrier, Frank Dymon. (111 mins, Color, 35mm, From ABKCO Films)
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• Written by Godard. Photographed by Tony Richmond. With the Rolling Stones, Anne Wiazemsky, Ian Quarrier, Frank Dymon. (111 mins, Color, 35mm, From ABKCO Films)
Originally titled One Plus One, the film was re-edited and retitled by the producer, without Godard’s permission. Ill-received by both critics and public on its release, it was re-evaluated by Andrew Hussey in The Guardian: “This is one of those rare and unsettling examples of a rock film, which has all the immediacy of reportage from a distant war-zone. . . . Godard . . . briefly left Paris for London in the wake of the Paris riots of May '68 with the aim of making a film about art, power and revolution. The Stones . . . were, as Godard saw it, perfect for the role of agents of anarchy in a movie whose stated aim was to 'subvert, ruin and destroy all civilized values.' The studio scenes are punctuated by a series of set pieces—an incoherent stew of Situationism and other Sixties stuff . . . Black Panthers . . . Maoist hippies . . . a female urban guerilla. . . . (A) snapshot of a far-off, lost world where rock music is still a redemptive and revolutionary force.”
• Written by Godard. Photographed by Tony Richmond. With the Rolling Stones, Anne Wiazemsky, Ian Quarrier, Frank Dymon. (111 mins, Color, 35mm, From ABKCO Films)
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• Written by Godard. Photographed by Tony Richmond. With the Rolling Stones, Anne Wiazemsky, Ian Quarrier, Frank Dymon. (111 mins, Color, 35mm, From ABKCO Films)
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PFA Theater
2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
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