This bizarre psychological drama pairs the gangster Chas (James Fox) with the shell-shocked rock star Turner (Mick Jagger) and stirred up a commotion even before it was released. Announcing the beginning of the distinguished directing career of Nicolas Roeg, Performance brought super-fast intercutting and relentless flash-forwarding into the mainstream and provides a time capsule of swingeing London--complete with drug use, the criminal underworld, threesomes, and gender-bending. Roeg's eye-scramblingly colorful camera work and Jack Nitzsche's brilliant score catch the aesthetics of the era and power the narrative. Thanks to Warner Bros.' restored print, you'll be able to dive into the hallucinatory world of one of the greatest British films ever made. 1970, U.K., color, 35mm, 96 minutes.




SPECIAL THANKS TO MARILEE WOMACK (WARNER BROS. CLASSICS), IRENE RAMOS AND TANY TAYLOR (MGM), MIKE SCHLESINGER (COLUMBIA), AND BRIAN CLAUSSEN (SWANK).