Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg
Performance
The grimy criminal underworld and hedonistic rock-and-roll counterculture of late-1960s London collide in this mind-scrambling, kaleidoscopic freak-out. On the run from his vengeful boss, a ruthless gangster (James Fox) hides out in the Notting Hill home of a reclusive rock star (Mick Jagger) and his companions (Anita Pallenberg and Michele Breton), who open the doors of his perception as the lines between reality and fantasy, male and female, persona and self, dissolve in a hallucinogenic haze. Built around Jagger’s most magnetic narrative-film performance, this visionary collaboration between enigmatic artist Donald Cammell and first-time director Nicolas Roeg is a daringly transgressive, endlessly influential journey to the dark side of bohemia.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, approved by producer Sandy Lieberson, with uncompressed monaural original-UK-version soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Donald Cammell: The Ultimate Performance (1998), a documentary by Kevin Macdonald and Chris Rodley
- Influence and Controversy: Making “Performance” (2007), a documentary about the making of the film
- The True Story of David Litvinoff, a new visual essay by Keiron Pim, biographer of dialogue coach and technical adviser David Litvinoff
- Performers on “Performance,” a documentary featuring actors James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and others
- The Two Cockneys of Harry Flowers, a program on the dialogue overdubbing done for the U.S. version of the film
- Memo from Turner, a program featuring behind-the-scenes footage
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Ryan Gilbey and a 1995 article by filmmaker and scholar Peter Wollen
New cover by Fred Davis
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, approved by producer Sandy Lieberson, with uncompressed monaural original-UK-version soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Donald Cammell: The Ultimate Performance (1998), a documentary by Kevin Macdonald and Chris Rodley
- Influence and Controversy: Making “Performance” (2007), a documentary about the making of the film
- The True Story of David Litvinoff, a new visual essay by Keiron Pim, biographer of dialogue coach and technical adviser David Litvinoff
- Performers on “Performance,” a documentary featuring actors James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and others
- The Two Cockneys of Harry Flowers, a program on the dialogue overdubbing done for the U.S. version of the film
- Memo from Turner, a program featuring behind-the-scenes footage
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Ryan Gilbey and a 1995 article by filmmaker and scholar Peter Wollen
New cover by Fred Davis
Cast
- James Fox
- Chas
- Mick Jagger
- Turner
- Anita Pallenberg
- Pherber
- Michele Breton
- Lucy
- Ann Sidney
- Dana
- John Bindon
- Moody
- Stanley Meadows
- Rosebloom
- Allan Cuthbertson
- The lawyer
- Antony Morton
- Dennis
- Johnny Shannon
- Harry Flowers
- Anthony Valentine
- Joey Maddocks
- Ken Colley
- Tony Farrell
- John Sterland
- The chauffeur
- Laraine Wickens
- Lorraine
Credits
- Director
- Donald Cammell
- Director
- Nicolas Roeg
- Written by
- Donald Cammell
- Photographed by
- Nicolas Roeg
- Produced by
- Sandy Lieberson
- Music by
- Jack Nitzsche
- “Turner’s Song” and “Memo from Turner” written and performed by
- Mick Jagger
- Music conducted by
- Randy Newman
- Associate producer
- David Cammell
- Film editor
- Antony Gibbs
- Film editor
- Brian Smedley-Aston
- Art director
- John Clark
- Production manager
- Robert Lynn
- Assistant director
- Richard Burge
- Unit manager
- Kevin Kavanagh
- Camera operator
- Mike Molloy
- Sound recordist
- Ron Barron
- Sound editor
- Alan Pattillo
- Dialogue coach and technical advisor
- David Litvinoff
- Turner’s house design consultant
- Christopher Gibbs
- Costume consultant
- Deborah Dixon
- Mr. Fox's suits by
- Hymie of Waterloo
Trailer for Performance
