Audience Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300269095 Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6300269094 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: March 24, 1995 Running Time: 105 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1970 Sales Rank: 12767
Amazon.com: This extraordinary 1970 British film marked the directorial debut of cinematographer Nicolas Roeg (working with Donald Cammell). James Fox portrays a London gangster who has to hide away for awhile and ends up staying with a fading rock star (Mick Jagger). The latter recognizes something of his old, daring self in the violent criminal, and after pushing open the boundaries of the hood's experience with psychedelics, the two men begin to intertwine as one. The film is an exciting pool of ideas about real and presumed power, about the mysteries of "performance" as a pressing outward toward an abandonment of identity and embrace of revelation. Beneath it all, however, is Roeg and Cammell's suspicion that the worlds of these two men--pop shaman and underworld soldier--are not dissimilar in their self-serving goals. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - ANOTHER OLD MOVIE
ANOTHER OLD MOVIE???...WELL...YES, HOWEVER IT IS FUN TO SEE A VERY YOUNG MICK JAGGER AND HE PERFORMS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS "MEMO FROM TURNER"...SO...IF YOU'RE INTO THE CAMPINESS OF OLD ROCK AND ROLL, ... Read More
Rating: - Christmas present for my sister, Marilyn, as she longed for Performance to own
I thought I was just giving this a rating, but my sister, who is sixteen years older than me, says that Performance with Mick Jagger is one of the best, most original movies of its times, early seventies. ... Read More
Rating: - A Weird but Rewarding Trip Back in Time
I just bought this DVD new from Amazon and love it. Hadn't seen the movie since I was in college in '70 and HAD to see it again. It was worth it. My wife walked in while Jagger is singing Memo from Turner ... Read More
Rating: - CRITERION, PUT THIS MASTERPIECE IN YOUR COLLECTION!
Let me be clear right at the outset: Anyone with an aesthetic sense can see that Roeg and Cammell's PERFORMANCE (1970) is one of the ten greatest films ever made. THIS VERSION, however, is atrocious for three ... Read More
Rating: - CRITERION, PUT THIS MASTERPIECE IN YOUR COLLECTION!
Let me be clear right at the outset: Anyone with an aesthetic sense can see that Roeg and Cammell's PERFORMANCE (1970) is one of the ten greatest films ever made. THIS VERSION, however, is atrocious for three ... Read More
- ANOTHER OLD MOVIE
- Christmas present for my sister, Marilyn, as she longed for Performance to own
- A Weird but Rewarding Trip Back in Time
- CRITERION, PUT THIS MASTERPIECE IN YOUR COLLECTION!