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DVD : PerformanceIn association with Amazon.comstarring: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michèle Breton, Ann Sidney directed by: Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell  List Price: $19.98 Amazon.com's Price: $14.99 You Save: $4.99 (25%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0085391116875 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: February 13, 2007 Running Time: 105 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1970 Sales Rank: 8948 MPN: WARD111687D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: Psychological drama about a criminal on the run who hides out with a rock star. Amazon.com: "I like that. Turn it up!" Performance is the Altamont of '60s cinema; psychedelic and hallucinatory, decadent and depraved, polymorphous-perverse. And you can dance to it! Melding the sex, drugs, and rock & roll ethos of swinging '60s London with the gangster film, Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell's genre-bending cult classic is so mind blowing that star James Fox did not act in a film again for nearly a decade. Fox stars as Chas, an "out of date" enforcer for crime kingpin Harry Flowers. Chas is a "nutcase," who likes "a little cavort," but when he kills someone he wasn't supposed to, he is forced to go on the lam. He takes refuge in a basement room belonging to Turner (Mick Jagger), a former rock star who has "lost his demon" and now lives as a recluse in his dilapidated house with his secretary/lover, Pherber (Anita Pallenberg, who was Rolling Stones bandmate Keith Richards' girlfriend at the time), and an androgynous French girl (Michele Breton). They enjoy a little cavorting themselves. In these drug-strewn surroundings, worlds collide and identities merge. "I know who I am," Chas tells Harry early on. He (and viewers) will become less sure as Performance unfolds. Completed in 1968 but shelved for two years, Performance was originally rated X and has been redesignated R. But it's still strong, potent stuff. With its elliptical editing, mirror images, and echoed dialogue that bridges the two worlds, Performance may not become clearer with repeat viewings, but there are fresh discoveries to be made each time. The killer soundtrack features Randy Newman, Ry Cooder, rap revolutionaries the Last Poets, and Jagger's own astounding "Memo from Turner." "I know a thing of two about performing, my boy," Turner tells Chas at one point. "The only performance that makes it... that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness." Performance makes it all the way. As Roeg is quoted in a featurette produced for this DVD, "After all this time, its mystery is part of its magic and attraction." --Donald Liebenson Average Rating:
 Rating:  - ANOTHER OLD MOVIEANOTHER 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, YOU'LL ENJOY THIS TOO LONG AND SOMETIMES INDECIPHERABLE MOVIE. Rating:  - Christmas present for my sister, Marilyn, as she longed for Performance to ownI 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. So, perhaps that would perk your interest. I know she is not wrong! Rating:  - A Weird but Rewarding Trip Back in TimeI 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 and was transfixed. We have seen the Stones in concert multiple times, but she had never seen Jagger like that. To me, this film is a cult classic, not because of the acting or the story, but because of its total weirdness, its mesmerizing music (particularly Ry Cooder's signature guitar), ... 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 important reasons: 1.) The Warner Bros. DVD superimposes a "remastered" soundtrack over the original, dubbing the actor's voices and substituting "cleaned-up" versions for the original songs. As a consequence, the voices are not always synchronized and we lose the gritty sonic ... 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 important reasons: 1.) The Warner Bros. DVD superimposes a "remastered" soundtrack over the original, dubbing the actor's voices and substituting "cleaned-up" versions for the original songs. As a consequence, the voices are not always synchronized and we lose the gritty sonic ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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