{"id":14841,"date":"2022-02-28T21:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T02:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14841"},"modified":"2022-02-25T16:03:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T21:03:53","slug":"performance-1970-donald-cammell-nicolas-roeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14841","title":{"rendered":"Performance (1970, Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our hero James Fox is trashing the office of a gambler who didn’t pay protection, which is a trend in movies I watched this week<\/a>. The gambler then trashes Fox’s place and gets shot for it, now Fox has to lay low until his boss can get him onto a boat for New York. He stays with some druggie beatniks who grow mushrooms, led by Anita Pallenberg and including Mick Jagger. Now we’ve got two of the worst kind of people in movies: the violent gangster and the drippy hippie. The hippies’ influence is felt on the filmmaking – once we arrive at the house, the editing stops jumping into the future\/past and the camera roves around more.<\/p>\n

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Hard to see Fox’s makeshift red-paint hair-dye job in this light:<\/em>
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Mick dances with a fluorescent light then lip-syncs a music video. Fox inevitably gets fed a crazy mushroom. When his men come to pick him up, he shoots Mick in the head and maybe becomes him. At one point I paused to look up whether Bergman’s Persona<\/em> had opened in the UK early enough to have been an influence (yep, mid-1967).<\/p>\n

Brown sugar in the foreground when Mick is introduced:<\/em>
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It’s all more sordid than I was expecting… gonna have to be one of those respected cinema classics that doesn’t become a personal fave. At least Peter Labuza agrees<\/a>. Roeg’s first movie as (co-) director, having ended his cinematographer-for-hire career with Petulia<\/em>. Writer\/director Cammell later made three other features which all sound intriguing: an audiophile serial killer, Anne Heche as a call girl, and a computer impregnates Julie Christie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our hero James Fox is trashing the office of a gambler who didn’t pay protection, which is a trend in movies I watched this week. The gambler then trashes Fox’s place and gets shot for it, now Fox has to lay low until his boss can get him onto a boat for New York. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,102,2979,892,2316,704],"class_list":["post-14841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-britain","tag-donald-cammell","tag-hippies","tag-mushrooms","tag-nicolas-roeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14868,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14841\/revisions\/14868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}