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- In a Brit gangster classic? Believe it. And believe that Performance is much, much more. Uncorked in 1970, it's a shocking crime thriller, a time-capsule of Swinging 60s London and a fizzy intellectual headtrip all whisked into one astonishing film.
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Performance (stylised in promotional material as performance.) is a 1970 British crime drama film directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, written by Cammell and filmed by Roeg. The film stars James Fox as a violent and ambitious London gangster who, after killing an old friend, goes into hiding at the home of a reclusive rock star (Mick ...
Performance: Directed by Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg. With James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michèle Breton. A violent East London gangster undergoes a transformation of identity while hiding from his former colleagues in the home of a jaded Bohemian rock star and his two girlfriends.
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- Crime, Drama
- Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg
- 1970-09-04
- Was It A Nicolas Roeg Film?
- Who’s That Swinging ’60s ‘It Girl’?
- Those Sex Scenes seem Awfully Real
- Was Art Just Imitating Life?
- One Actor Actually Had Been A Gangster
- Marlon Brando Was Almost Cast
- John Lennon Lent His Car to The Production
- “Memo from Turner”
- Did Jagger See Himself in Turner?
- Finally Getting to Look Back
Mick Jagger was perfect as hedonistic rock star Turner; he brought a certain aristocratic aloofness as well as that famed Rolling Stones “menace” that suggested the gangster life. “[Co-director] Donald Cammell wrote the film, and he’s one of the first ever to recognize the similarities among aristocrats, gangsters, and rock stars,” Glennie said. Ca...
Anita Pallenberg, standing, makes a huge impression in “Performance” as Turner’s girlfriend. (Michèle Breton is in the bathtub.) Pallenberg was a German-Italian model who initially was the girlfriend of Rolling Stones founding member Brian Jones, who would die in 1969 at the age of 27 from complications of drug abuse. By the time she filmed “Perfor...
“I asked Mick how method the sex scenes were,” Glennie said. “And he gave me his famous laugh and said, ‘I’m sure you’re going to do your research, and I’ll just leave it to that.’ But a lot of the crew said they were really as naked as you could possibly get, the sex scenes. In fact, the only award ‘Performance’ ever won was when [producer] Sandy ...
Michael Cooper took this on-set photograph of Pallenberg, which perfectly captures the film’s self-reflective nature as well as its use of mirrors and doppelgänger motifs. Debate still swirls about whether the turmoil depicted onscreen was mirrored in the actual production. Keith Richards wrote in his memoir, “Life,” that Pallenberg cheated on him ...
The main character “Performance” follows is Chas, a sinewy gangster who shakes down marks by shaving their heads or pouring acid on their beautiful cars. Fox himself was a former child actor and Eton schoolboy far removed from anything resembling the working-class milieus that spawned some of London’s more legendary gangsters, such as Ronnie and Re...
Fox became a born-again Christian right after production on “Performance” wrapped. He wouldn’t appear in another film until 1983’s “Runners,” aside from “No Longer Alone,” a 1978 religious drama about an experience from the life of Ruth Bell Graham and Billy Graham. Fox was not Cammell’s first choice; he wanted Marlon Brando. “He and producer Sandy...
The famous ending of the film calls into question the nature of identity. Turner appears to have died, but instead we see him in the backseat of a Rolls-Royce — so was it Chas who really died? The Rolls-Royce used in the scene actually belonged to John Lennon. “It had a TV and a phone, really ahead of its time,” Glennie said. “And Mick rung John up...
This shot from the last day of production came during a break while shooting Jagger’s performance of “Memo From Turner,”a hard-edged blues-rock song that appears near the end of the film. Jagger sings the song directly into the camera with slicked-back hair and a gangster’s suit. The sound reflects the style the Stones were beginning to pursue in 1...
Glennie interviewed Jagger many times for this book. What’s the biggest misconception people have of him? “Perhaps his aloofness,” Glennie said. “A lot of people who saw ‘Performance’ tried to say Mick was like Turner and was this reclusive, eccentric rock star, and Mick always reiterated, ‘No, I’m nothing like that.’”
“Normally, a film wraps, and a couple months afterward they’re all contracted to do the press tour,” Glennie said. “But there was no press tour, with Warner Bros. holding the film back. So these guys had all gone their separate ways, and Mick never really had a chance to talk about it. Making ‘Performance,’ which he now regards as his favorite film...
Aug 20, 2018 · At first, Performance plunges us into the violent day-to-day life of hard-man gangster Chas (James Fox) as he puts the frighteners on London’s businesses for his boss, Harry Flowers (Johnny Shannon). They fall out, leaving Chas on the run for his life, and he ends up hiding out in the house of a rundown pop star, Turner (Jagger).
Nov 26, 2018 · Performance is the film that arguably defines the late Sixties in bohemian London. The blurred lines of reality and fiction came together to tell the story of Chas Devlin, a gangster and...
“Performance” is a bizarre, disconnected attempt to link the inhabitants of two kinds of London underworlds: pop stars and gangsters. It isn’t altogether successful, largely because it tries too hard and doesn’t pace itself to let its effects sink in.
Apr 8, 2020 · Performance is a makeover movie with a surprising sting in the tail. A gangster movie is gradually absorbed by a hippie pastoral, but there remains an irreducible core of violence, which psychedelia and music and sex cannot ever overcome – with which, indeed, they are covertly complicit.
