Performance (1970) Vintage Trailer (Uncut and Uncensored) Mick Jagger And James Fox

[ReneODeay]

from this emerged their Satanic Majesties of lore ......

[tyrssen1]

One of the heaviest films I ever saw. Caught it for the first couple times at a midnight showing in Detroit; later, got my own video. Very deep, very creative, very dangerous. No one makes 'em like this.

[182fooz]

My favourite film !

[fluffer1987]

Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader are both big fans of Performance.

[gomerpyleism]

ORSON WELLS NARRATION- SWEET....

[suchafool990]

pretentious bullshit

[jonquil4000]

@suchafool990 Your obviously not a fan of transgressive cinema. So why bother leaving a comment?.

[speculativeboy]

This is a truly underrated and amazing british film. Roeg for some unknown reason gets few plaudits, and yet with this, Bad Timing, Don't look know and the Man who fell to earth, made some of the best british cinema in the last forty years. The tragedy is that Cammell never got the chance to have this freedom again, men in suits writing checks won the day.

[normangish]

best film ever about identity, london gangsters, drugs.......and james fox turns in the best performance of the era....blew his mind...and mine....favorite Brit film

[PaoloVeneziano1958]

At the very least, this is the best British gangster film ever made.

[bladesofglory12]

Is this why Mick dyed his hair?

[itsallhappeningtoday]

in the film there is a scene when anita pallenberg is fixing james fox back and mick jagger plays a bluesy song on guitar while singing and periodically pausing to talk to anita and james. does anyone know if that song already exists he plays a cover or is it just a song for the film?

[bletherskiter]

@itsallhappeningtoday It's the first verse of "Come on in my kitchen", by Robert Johnson.

[villiparis]

It was actually made in 1968 but wasn't released until later because of censorship problems.

[starlollie]

Oh what the hell why was everyone always showing me crappy suposedly awesome movies when this existed??? I ony found out about this movie today.

[PerignonPop]

You're rendering that scaffolding dangerous...

[blacksultan85]

tthat's Marsha Hunt's baby daddy!!!!!!!!!!!

[annyid8]

Mick looks uncannily like John Travolta in a pulp fiction kind of way in one of those scenes towards the end

[MrRetro1000]

Andy carroll lol... great vid though... 

[jasonbigelow]

I watched this for the first time in seven years last night,and couldn't help but think that some footage was missing.

[NutterCalledJinxie]

@jasonbigelow Maybe you watched a different version? It was kept back from initial release because it made some film critic's wife vomit, so it might have been censored?

[drwhofanclub]

Does anyone what the soundtrack is of the woman singing starting at 2:22 ??

[dialF4flipit]

@drwhofanclub Turner's Murder

[CitySkin09]

Looks too fuckin' heady for me. I likes. I likes very much.

[mjramsden13]

A Masterpiece! Top birds. Hard men. Vice Versa. The Chaps. Bodybuilding. 'Dialogue coach' David Livitnoff, the insane intellectual hooligan whose conversation may have inspired Pinter, (BFI booklet essential for completists as is Keef's autobiog). Hallucinogenics. Transgender fannying about. What made London great.

[mjramsden13]

@ Richie: Donald Cammel spent twenty-something years getting a few films made in LA, butchered against his wishes. Anyway...A Masterpiece. Top birds. Hard men. Vice Versa. The Chaps. Bodybuilding. 'Dialogue coach' David Livitnoff, the insane intellectual hooligan whose conversation may have inspired Pinter, (BFI booklet essential for completists as is Keef's autobiog). Hallucinogenics. Transgender fannying about. What made London great.

[richievegas01]

The wife of a Warner Bros' exec vomited after watching a test screening of the film. WB for some reason thought they were getting a lighthearted caper like 'A Hard Day's Night'. Er, not exactly! Nick Roeg was shit-hot back then, this and Don't Look Now really stick in your brain. Donald Cammel never did much of note after this did he?

[madahad9]

ONE OF THE GREAT ODDITIES OF THE SIXITIES (EVEN THOUGH IT WAS NOT RELEASED UNTIL THE EARLY SEVENTIES) FROM THE VISIONARY FILMMAKER NICHOLAS ROEG.. IT CAME OUT OF PERIOD WHEN THERE WAS STILL GREAT FILMMAKERS MAKING CHANLEGING FILMS THAT WERE INFINATELY MORE INTERESTING THAN WHAT IS OUT TODAY.

[okeyeye]

My Top Film --as rash as such a claim can be--of all time...ie the most dense, chance-taking and re-watchable/listenable: DC gave Nitzsche carte blance ["Here's the footage minus sound---score it!"] on the latter's fave soundtrack gig of career

[kalisteboat]

Obviously, this movie is the brother of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".

Same ambiance, same colour, same madness, same transgression : This the result of a powerful drug !!! ;-)

[Aztec35361]

Don't know if anybody replied to OfficerBigJoey's query a month back. If not, then here goes: Jagger was jamming a medley of Robert Johnson's Come On in My Kitchen, and Me and the Devil Blues.

[fraancostone79]

que peliculon ♥

[Dream2theMusic]

saw this last night, it was one interesting movie! lol

[OfficerBigJoey]

saw this last night on tv at 3 in the morning and was amazed. i wish i could find that song tho that Jagger plays on the acoustic guitar near the end. I think it was a robert johnson song but im not sure. anybody have any ideas to help me out? I looked on the soundtrack but i couldn't find it.

[TheEric2040]

@OfficerBigJoey

Ry Cooder did the slide steel guitar! The best ever!

[slammydoor]

@OfficerBigJoey Yes, in that scene Jagger's singing Robert Johnson's song "Come On In My Kitchen". Mesmerizing, eh what?

[12Zwolf]

; It is about the Kray twins.

Cheers!

[abcbeatle]

lol mick XD

[Digdigs2]

Performance and Withnail & I - two of the best films ever! None of your clean Hollywood gangstas with clean Hollywood scripts here - Performance is underrated.

[dan32113]

@Digdigs2 great films, but better than Smokey & the Bandit!

[sixtieschick5]

this is a fabulous movie!

[tonymontana1974]

amazing film lets ave a look LETS AVE A LLLOOOOKKKKK.

[zsrl04]

I strongly feel this film should be apart of the Criterion library. And btw, would anybody here know the little piano-y tune that comes towards the end of the trailer? thnks

[cinebeatl]

Such a disturbing film. I have a difficult time watching it, and I can't put my finger on what it is that makes it such a difficult watch for me.

[Turelx]

It's disturbing, yes - complex, difficult to watch without getting a headache and lots of questions, yes - but crap? No. I loved it, every single moment of it - it's psychedelic and really fucked up, it's got great music and great actors - not Mick Jagger so much as James Fox, he was brilliant - amazing if really creepy cinematography - a story that manages to drown you in curiosity even if you never actually understand it.

I just watched it last night, and I loved it.

[fubarcat50]

i originally performance at the theatre, and still have the soundtrack lp--- loved it then, and still do, great stuff

[jessicaalbatitsnice]

took place in NOTTING HILL. no julia roberts and hugh grants lounging on park benches THEN me lad. oh no. serious f-ing druggies living in bloody squallor eating shrooms and doing smack.

never greally got the ending however. but boy, wasn't anita pallenberg HOT HOT HOT! holy shiite moslem!

[skam1]

@ jessicaalbatitsnice

Powis Square to be exact where i grew.. i was living a few doors when they filmed this and my friend was born in No 25 where this was filmed on the corner.. you definitely wouldn't catch hugh and julia on those no go streets back then hehehe... i have a old photo montage of the area in my vids under "laylow oldskool"..

[mechslave]

They keep saying how the weed is so much stronger now.... I don't think so!!!!!

[Wilthomer66]

I'm a man's man see.....

[unicorn1221]

this is a film about insanity.

[FuzztoneProductions]

great film

[tristanavakian]

real risk.... dangerous, fucked up, transgressive shit. depressing how far we've fallen since - no-one has any balls anymore.

[motioneccentrica]

@tristanavakian

Just finished watchin, I cant fucking agree more, this film was sheer Experimental BALLS out creative geniousity. Yes I just coined that shit. I love how both halves play out like almost separate movies but still merge so easily into one consistent piece of art.

[paddy2youse]

This movie was pretentious, badly-made bullshit. Don't lose any sleep over not seeing it.

[Boudosaved]

Saw it last night. Style/cinematography/atmospher­e/acting are A+. I am still thinking about the substance. I think it was trying to make a point about identity, normality, sanity. I wanted more.

[Turelx]

@Boudosaved I saw it last night too, and I also wanted more!

I think it was just showing the way the lines of reality and sanity just blur sometimes - and identities, too. It's like you never know who's who, not really, in this film. Fascinating.

[cadenmccann2]

I want to see this moviee

[johnisallin]

1970??

[cherylbeee]

i think i was 17 when i saw this the first time, as well...and it just blew my mind...i remember coming home and telling my MOM, you have to see this movie...what was i thinking?  how fabulous was Anita Pallenburgh? Yowza! and Mick in his prime!

[cherylbeee]

have seen this maybe 30 times...if you can hit a big screen....superb!

[CHUCKLOVES1969]

WELL..you beat me..i've seen it maybe 20 times...and it is memorizing. the reason i saw it so many times,,,was cause i never could figure out ..what the hell was going on..and the ending. but finally ...when i was older,,,i finally got it. i swear...i loved it,,but i didn't know why it was so damn good. BlowUp..Midnight Cowboy..Performance in that order are my best all time films. i was soooo lucky to have been a around 17 back then,,so damn lucky..

[scrawlspacer]

One of the best films ever made.

[Heathledgerjoker1234]

I want to see this VERY badly, but I can't find ot anywhere. Anyone know where I ccan get it?

[mooville32]

It is finally on DVD. You can get it on netflix. It's a great print with some cool extra features.

[codebreaker2001]

You may either try Amazon or, if you happen to live near one, Borders Books. You can also try Best Buy, but I can't guarantee it.

[carbonarapadrino]

I'll have two-thirds of the big one,please!