Performance Blu-Ray

The sordid criminal underworld and the hedonistic rock-and-roll counterculture of late 1960s London collide in this mind-bending, kaleidoscopic freak-out. A ruthless gangster (James Fox) is on the run from his vengeful boss and hides in Notting Hill with a reclusive rock star (Mick Jagger) and his companions (Anita Pallenberg and Michele Breton), who open the doors to his perception as the boundaries between reality and fantasy, man and woman, persona and self dissolve in a hallucinogenic haze. This visionary collaboration between Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg is built around Jagger's most magnetic narrative film performance and is a carefully crafted, boundary-crossing, endlessly influential journey into the dark side of bohemianism.

DIRECTOR'S APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION INCLUDESOR

• New 4K digital restoration approved by producer Sandy Lieberson, with uncompressed audio track in the original British mono version

   

• 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 advisor 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 about the dubbing of the dialogue for the American version of the film

   

• Memo from Turner, a program with behind-the-scenes footage

   

• Trailer for the film

   

• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

   

• PLUS: An essay by film critic Ryan Gilbey and an article from 1995 by filmmaker and researcher Peter Wollen

   

• New cover by Fred Davis

   

Subtitles

English SDH