Caught this at the Pacific Cinematheque tonight. Fascinating time capsule -- and it features early footage of Syd Barrett and The Pink Floyd, so the fact that it was playing here mere days after the death of Barrett was, um, a neat coincidence. (Sorry, tried to think of a better word than "neat", but couldn't, without sounding pretentious.)

Loved seeing Mick Jagger describe how political protests are on the rise because young people are now more well-off materially ("When you're hungry, you don't care about morals"), before going off on an absurd tangent about how machines are increasingly doing all the work now and people will need something more than movies and TV after they're finished their four-hour working days.

Also loved seeing Michael Caine and David Hockney decrying in different ways the "class consciousness" whereby regular pubs in London were forced to close at 11pm but swanky nightclubs could stay open even later and charge one full pound sterling per beer, etc. (Caine also seems to take issue with the morality implied by the mini-skirt, though he insists he's not a moralist.) For a film promoted as a document of "Swinging London", there is actually something subversive here -- an awareness that the elements which made London so "swinging" at that time might have been open or accessible only to a minority.

Other interviewees include Julie Christie, Lee Marvin (who likes mini-skirts more than Caine does), Alan Aldridge (the guy who painted lots of naked women).

There was a Q&A afterwards with a guy who was at that Floyd concert in 1967 and is now working on a documentary about those days. So weird to think that I'm in my mid-30s and these guys are stoking their nostalgia for an event and an era that took place a few years before I was even conceived.