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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Become a supporter of The Projection Booth
Buy Performance on Blu-Ray
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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Episode 257: Demon Seed (1977)

Special Guests: Gerrit Graham, Rebecca Umland, Sam Umland
Guest Co-Hosts: Bill Ackerman, Maitland McDonagh

In Donald Cammell's Demon Seed, Alex Harris (Fritz Weaver) creates Proteus, a super-computer that terrorizes Susan Harris (Julie Christie).

Maitland McDonagh and Bill Ackerman join Mike in discussing the film, Dean Koontz's source novel(s), and more. We talk with Gerrit Graham about his role in the film as well as Cammell scholars Rebecca & Sam Umland.

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Bonus Interview: Gerrit Graham

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Links:
Buy Demon Seed on DVD
Buy Demon Seed by Dean Koontz
Buy Donald Cammell: A Life on the Wild Side by Rebecca & Sam Umland
Buy Maitland McDonagh's books
Buy The Tim Burton Encyclopedia by Sam Umland
Buy Outlaw Heroes as Liminal Figures of Film and Television by Rebecca Umland
Listen to Bill Ackerman's Supporting Characters podcast
Visit Lunch Meat VHS to read Bill Ackerman's writing
Visit the official Dean Koontz website
Read “Demon Seed”: The 1977 Donald Cammell film predicted how supercomputers and robots really want to screw us by Bryan Thomas

Music:
"Pre-Trip" - Jerry Fielding
"Computer Love" - Kraftwerk
"Demon Seed" - The Proteus

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