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- Featurette "Influence and Controversy" (25 mins approx)
- 1970 Vintage Featurette "Memo from Turner" (5 mins approx)
Performance marked the directorial debut of Nicolas Roeg (Don't Look Now, The Man Who Fell To Earth) and co-director Donald Cammell (Demon Seed), who also wrote the experimental screenplay - citing Francis Bacon, Nietzsche and Jorge Borges as inspiration. The film owes its distinct visual style and cult status to the successful collaboration between these two filmmakers.
Set in swinging sixties London, James Fox plays Chas Devlin, a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation, who in underworld terms, is a "performer." Mick Jagger is Turner, a reclusive rock superstar whose home becomes a hideout for Chas. In this spellbinder of illusion and reality, decadence and decay their worlds collide - and the impact is both exotic and explosive.
The soundtrack features music from The Rolling Stones, Ry Cooder, Randy Newman, The Last Poets and more.
Average rating (4 reviews)
Amazing
carckerknacker | 06/04/2008 | See all carckerknacker's reviews (4) »
this film is one of the best films ive ever seen
i had to study this in a level film studies
i was the main person to like it because most people dont understand the film
i watched this when i was about 10 for the first time and loved it then mainly coz it was so weird
this film also is what inspired the mighty boosh aswell
this was one of noel fieldings favorite films and i understand why
Big expectations lead to big disappointment.
runcible | 30/07/2007 | See all runcible's reviews (1) »
The review saying the soundtrack is cocked up is spot on. What they have done is put the feed from one of the stereo channels and spread it across both speakers. This means half of the music/soundtrack can't be heard (the throb noise made when Turner plugs in another cable, loads of the guitar during 'Poor White Hound Dog', Turner saying 'here's to old England').
The rest of the film looks and sounds great but how they could have made such a massive error on the sound track during the most crucial part of the entire movie is mystifying.
Incidentally I wrote to Warners to point out what had happened and asked if anything was being done but... ...no reply inevitably. So the greatest ever British gangster film's arrival on DVD is a huge disappointment.
a masterpiece
jonjonsnipes | 03/07/2007 | See all jonjonsnipes' reviews (3) »
One of the greatest and most powerful British movies ever made by one of the greatest and most chronically underappreciated British directors of all time. Performance is on a par with 'Bad Timing' as Roeg's richest and best work, it rewards many viewings and incidentally includes the first ever music video (featuring mick jagger), a must see, must own situation.
Allan Cuthbertson, James Fox, Mick Jagger, Vicky Hodge, Anita Pallenberg, Ann Sidney, John Bindon, Stanley Meadows, Anthony Morton, Anthony Valentine, Kenneth Colley & John Sterland | |
18 years and over | |
1970 | |
Widescreen 1.77:1 | |
English - Dolby Digital (1.0) Mono | |
1 hour and 45 minutes (approx) | |
Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players. |
