Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg

Performance

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 Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg is a daringly transgressive, endlessly influential journey to the dark side of bohemia.

Film Info

  • United Kingdom
  • 1970
  • 105 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.85:1
  • English
  • Spine #1252

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

Purchase Options

Coming soon, available Feb 25, 2025

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
Performance
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