Thursday, September 6 | 9PM Performance Great Britain 1970 d. Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg with James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg and John Bindon. Colour. 115 m
“the most disgusting, the most completely worthless film I have seen since I began reviewing.” Richard Shickel
“New wave with a vengeance, Performance offers a nonstop farrago of strobe cuts, flash-forwards, percussive zooms, rack-focus shots, weird aural cues, and trippy interpolations…. The movie is a facile enough pastiche of underground pyrotechnics and Euro-art pretensions, but far more evocative now is the fast, offhand repartee between the principals….. Frequently naked, even as she keeps changing her outfit, the then 24-year-old Pallenberg is a stunning creature. Her sexual insolence and petulantly garbled line readings give a mocking edge, seldom encountered outside the Warhol factory, to her erotic scenes with Fox.” J. Hoberman
See Also: One Plus One aka Sympathy for the Devil (Godard, 1968), Dillinger è morto aka Dillinger is Dead (Ferreri, 1969)\, Ned Kelly (Richardson, 1970), Lucifer Rising (Anger, 1972).