Sympathy For The Devil

Sympathy for the Devil (originally titled One Plus One by the film's director) is a 1968 film shot mostly in color by director Jean-Luc Godard.

Composing the movie's main narrative thread are several long, uninterrupted shots of The Rolling Stones in a sound studio, recording and rerecording various parts to "Sympathy for the Devil." The dissolution of Stone Brian Jones is vividly portrayed, and the chaos of 1968 is made clear when a line referring to the killing of John F. Kennedy is heard changed to the plural after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in June.
Interwoven through the movie are outdoor shots of Black Panthers milling about in a junkyard littered with the rusting bodies of Chryslers and Oldsmobiles heaped upon each other. There are also scenes of Black Panthers tossing their rifles to each other, from man to man, as if in an assembly line, readying for an impending battle.
The rest of the film contains a powerful political message in the form of a voiceover about Marxism, the need for revolution and other topics in which Godard was interested.
What I loved about this movie is that you witness the construction of the song, how it evolves as the takes go by, how it builds up and comes to be one of my favorite Rolling Stones song, Sympathy For The Devil.
The imagery is artwork, the music is amazing.
How can you go wrong.
Jean-Luc Godard & The Rolling Stones.
It speaks for itself.

Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil

Grey Gardens

Grey Gardens is a 1975 documentary by directed by Albert and David Maysles.

The film depicts the everyday lives of the two women who live at Grey Gardens, a decrepit 28 room mansion at 3 West End Avenue in the wealthy Georgica Pond neughbourhood of East Hampton, New York.

Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale were the aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.

The two women lived together in squalor and almost total isolation.

In the Fall of 1971 and throughout 1972, their living conditions were exposed as the result of an article in the National Enquirer and a cover story in New York Magazine after a serie of inspections, which the Beales called raids, by the Suffolk County Health Department.

Grey Gardens was purchased in 1923 by Phelan and Edith Bouvier Beale. They occupied the house for aver 50 years.

The House itself, a traditional shingled cottage of 14 rooms and 3 bathrooms, was designed by Joseph Greenleaf Thrope in 1897 ans completed several years later.

The grey colour of the dunes, the hue of the cement garden walls, and the sea mist gave the garden it's colour and the house it's name.

With the Beale women facing eviction and the razing of their home, Jacky Onassis and her sister, Lee Radzwill, provided the necessary funds to stabilize and repair the dilapidated house so that it would meet Village codes in the Summer of 1972.

They were a source of inspiration to many trends.

Eccentric and stylish, in their own special way, these two women had a major impact on the art and fashion world.

The movie is raw, bittersweet, you want to feel bad for them but you just can't bring yourself to doing so.