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VHS : Sympathy for the DevilIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman directed by: Jean-Luc Godard  List Price: $29.95 Price: $19.99 You Save: $9.96 (33%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303266695 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 630326669X Label: Abkco Manufacturer: Abkco Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Abkco Release Date: October 18, 1994 Running Time: 100 minutes Studio: Abkco Theatrical Release Date: April 26, 1970 Sales Rank: 10820 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: This version of Jean-Luc Godard's 1968 One Plus One caused a legendary confrontation at a film festival when the director became infuriated at his producer's decision to attach the Rolling Stones' completed song "Sympathy for the Devil" at the film's end. Godard's own original plan had been to make a film of the Stones' construction of the tune in rehearsal, and intercut that with a story line about a white revolutionary who becomes suicidal when her lover embraces black separatism. Production problems caused Godard to give up that idea and just allow scenes to fall where they would, allowing viewers to construct the film in their own minds. Be that as it may, this slightly shorter and more commercial producer's cut does not lack in satisfaction by closing things out with the song as Stones fans know it. Overall, the film is a bewildering affair, and that's not at all a bad thing: one's orientation is whatever one makes of Godard's enthralling mess here. Even if a viewer is just interested in seeing the Stones at their peak and at work on their brilliant 1968 album Beggars Banquet, this is a highly rewarding experience. Astute watchers and listeners will note that in an early take of the song, Mick Jagger sings the lyric, "I shouted out, 'Who killed Kennedy?'/When after all, it was you and me." Later, with no mention of a particularly tragic 1968 event in American politics, Jagger has revised the line to "I shouted out, 'Who killed the Kennedys?'" Talk about a startling moment. --Tom Keogh Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Driving Fast in the FogSympathy for the Devil (originally titled One Plus One) was shot in 1968, when Godard's infatuation with Maoist ideology was at fever pitch. In the films he churned out from 67 to 74 (approximately 18 films, some of which were never released) Godard was struggling to find sounds and visuals that would convey the reality of revolutionary change. One Plus One works better than most because its central image - a rock band struggling to make a great song - is an inspired metaphor for the turbulent, ... Read More Rating: - I found this film fascinating, despite its reputation....This film has been unfairly maligned by many (Rolling Stones fans, Godard fans), but it's actually pretty good and absolutely fascinating at times. Godard's politics get in the way of his cinematic mastery at times, but overall I found this as good and as compulsively watchable as his classic films. One of the greatest things about this film (as others have noted here) is showing The Rolling Stones in their rawest state. This isn't a slick, MTV, reality style TV programme with lame interviews and an obsession ... Read More Rating:  - ***pathetic (NO sympathy!)Great song; ridiculous movie. I'm of this silly generation, yet it is not the silliness of half this movie which bothers me. (The movie mixes footage of the Rolling Stones recording "Sympathy For the Devil" with immature, amateur social "commentary".) It is the arrogance and the ignorance which flows from this film that bothers me, the fakery that richness and idleness birth. Silly me! When I was impressionable, I listened to these jesters and these jumping jack flashes rather than the ... Read More Rating: - Caveat EmptorI must have had this movie in my hands a few dozen times before I finally picked it up in a hasty moment recently. The reviews herein hit the nail pretty squarely and if you are wondering about it, please take note: THIS IS NOT A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE STONES. I know nothing of Jean-Luc Godard's work and have no desire to if this is indicative of his style. That's not a knock on him at all, just a definition of my own taste. That said, the Stones footage is priceless, especially is you are intrigued by what ... Read More Rating: - 3 and 1/2 stars : a little misunderstanding about this film must be pointed outi don't think this movie is an absolute masterpiece (and sure, there is better films of Godard than this one) but it contains some interesting moments and situations like a lot of Godard's films ; Godard is not the strongest director for telling a linear narrative tale but in his film the situations, the originality of the scenes are predominant without expecting that the man will tell a common story with a beginning, a middle and an end ; however, he is a good director. Secondly, in my opinion this is an error to ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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