Roeg's "Perfomance"

[Robin Landseadel]

One of my all-time favorite movies. Turned me on to Rap before rap was  
RAP, via the brilliant "Last Poets" track, "Wake Up Niggers." There  
probably should be an exclamation point in there somewhere. And "Memo  
 From Turner" could easily be retro-fitted into Gravity's Rainbow.

That gender-bent little girl in the bathtub was all I ever wanted.

On Jun 10, 2010, at 7:41 AM, David Morris wrote:

> Like blogger Richard Metzger, I also think Performance is a great  
> film.
>
> http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/the_making_of_performance_donald_cammell_mick_jagger/
>
> "Much like a TARDIS, a Borges short story, or Thomas Pynchon’s The
> Crying of Lot 49, Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg‘s 1970 film,
> Performance, is far bigger on the inside than its outside might
> indicate.  Starring Mick Jagger, James Fox and Anita Pallenberg, and
> with its primary action confined to that of a London flat, Performance
> manages to explore, in its uniquely heady and hypnotic way, such
> notions as gender, identity and madness as a function of creativity."