Performance
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Release Date: 03/03/2025
The grimy criminal underworld and hedonistic rock-and-roll counterculture of late-1960s London collide in this mind-scrambling, kaleidoscopic freak-out. On the run from his vengeful boss, a ruthless gangster (James Fox) hides out in the Notting Hill home of a reclusive rock star (Mick Jagger) and his companions (Anita Pallenberg and Michele Breton), who open the doors of his perception as the lines between reality and fantasy, male and female, persona and self, dissolve in a hallucinogenic haze. Built around Jagger’s most magnetic narrative-film performance, this visionary collaboration between Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg is a daringly transgressive, endlessly influential journey to the dark side of bohemia.
Film Info
United Kingdom
1970
105 minutes
Color
1.85:1
English
Spine #1252
New 4K digital restoration, approved by producer Sandy Lieberson, with uncompressed monaural original-UK-version soundtrack
Donald Cammell: The Ultimate Performance (1998), a documentary by Kevin Macdonald and Chris Rodley
Influence and Controversy: Making “Performance” (2007), a documentary about the making of the film
The True Story of David Litvinoff, a new visual essay by Keiron Pim, biographer of dialogue coach and technical adviser David Litvinoff
Performers on “Performance,” a documentary featuring actors James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and others
The Two Cockneys of Harry Flowers, a program on the dialogue overdubbing done for the U.S. version of the film
Memo from Turner, a program featuring behind-the-scenes footage
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by film critic Ryan Gilbey and a 1995 article by filmmaker and scholar Peter Wollen
New cover by Fred Davis