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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michèle Breton, Ann Sidney
Directed By: Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell
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Audience Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300269095
Format: Color
ISBN: 6300269094
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 1995-03-24
Running Time: 105
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1970
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Summary: ANOTHER OLD MOVIE
Comment: 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, YOU'LL ENJOY THIS TOO LONG AND SOMETIMES INDECIPHERABLE MOVIE.
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Summary: Christmas present for my sister, Marilyn, as she longed for Performance to own
Comment: 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. So, perhaps that would perk your interest. I know she is not wrong!
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Summary: A Weird but Rewarding Trip Back in Time
Comment: 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 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), the presence of Jagger, and its sexual themes (hedonism, threesomes, androgeny). A mediocre movie that is totally hypnotic.
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Summary: CRITERION, PUT THIS MASTERPIECE IN YOUR COLLECTION!
Comment: 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 texture of the original.
2.) This edition omits Turner's declaration, "Here's to Old England!" during "Memo from T."
3.) It excises the scene in which Chas terrorizes a pornographer. Why? To receive an R-rating, perhaps, from the M.P.A.A.?
In sum, this version is an unnecessary operation on a perfectly healthy patient.
Joseph Suglia, Ph.D., the greatest author in the world
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Summary: CRITERION, PUT THIS MASTERPIECE IN YOUR COLLECTION!
Comment: 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 texture of the original.
2.) This edition omits Turner's declaration, "Here's to Old England!" during "Memo from T."
3.) It excises the scene in which Chas terrorizes a pornographer. Why? To receive an R-rating, perhaps, from the M.P.A.A.?
In sum, this version is an unnecessary operation on a perfectly healthy patient.
Joseph Suglia, Ph.D., the greatest author in the world
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Editorial Reviews:
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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
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