Episode 603: Performance (1970)

Special Guests: Sam Umland, Keiron Pim
Guest Co-Hosts: Maitland McDonagh, Ben Slater

We’re looking at Nic Roeg and Donald Cammell's Performance (1970), the story of a gangster (James Fox) who kills an old friend and goes into hiding at the chateau of a rock star (Mick Jagger).

Ben Slater and Maitland McDonagh join Mike to discuss the film and its themes of duality while Professor Sam Umland talks about Donald Cammell and Keiron Pim shines a light on the film's consultant, David Litvinoff.

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Buy Donald Cammell: A Life on the Wild Side by Rebecca A. Umland and Samuel J Umland
Buy Jumpin' Jack Flash: David Litvinoff and the Rock'n'Roll Underworld by Keiron Pim
Buy Performance by Jay Glennie
Buy Performance by Colin MacCabe
Buy Mick Brown on Performance by Mick Brown
Buy Performance: The Biography of a 60s Masterpiece by Paul Buck
Buy The Films of Nicolas Roeg: Myth and Mind by John Izod

Music:
"Performance" - Happy Mondays
"Jigsaw" - The Rolling Stones
"Memo to Turner" - Mick Jagger

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