Sympathy for the Devil (1970) RE-UP

Jean-Luc Godard's 1970 film, which alternates late-'60s political propaganda with scenes from the Beggars Banquet album recording sessions. Although "Sympathy for the Devil" was once hailed as "a song of revolution unlike any that's ever been sung," by contemporary standards it is fairly dated, not only for its exaggerated "revolutionary" rhetoric, but for its artfulness. Studio footage of the Stones reworking the title track is interesting for fans, but many of the accompanying sequences drag on way past the point of being interesting. The end result is that one wants to skip the political mumbo jumbo and just watch the band; sadly, even that isn't terribly worthwhile.
Sympathy for the Devil is also the title of a producer's edit of a 1968 film by Jean-Luc Godard whose own original version is called One Plus One. The film, a depiction of the late 1960s American counterculture, also featured the Rolling Stones in the process of recording the song in the studio. On the filming, Jagger said in Rolling Stone: "… [it was] very fortuitous, because Godard wanted to do a film of us in the studio. I mean, it would never happen now, to get someone as interesting as Godard. And stuffy. We just happened to be recording that song. We could have been recording 'My Obsession.' But it was 'Sympathy for the Devil,' and it became the track that we used.