In 1968 Jean-Luc Godard attended a premiere screening of his documentary about the Rolling Stones, Sympathy for the Devil, at the BFI National Film Theatre on the South Bank, as part of that year’s London film festival. Incandescent with rage that the film’s ending had been changed (and its title altered – it was originally called One Plus One), Godard attacked the producer in front of the festival audience. Ejected from the auditorium by the NFT’s general manager, Mike Wesson, Godard set up a projector and screen under Waterloo Bridge and showed his version of the film to what he called a “real” audience.
