Performance

Performance, 1970
Directors: Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell
105’, English, Black & White / Colour

Where do the paths of rock stars cross with the kids of London slums, and glam rock with violent crime? In "Alice in Wonderland", of course. Considering that Alice is an English invention, we shouldn’t be surprised that the movie takes place at a mysterious house in London. The Nicholas Roeg drug trip film to end all drug trip films suggests in a very cool way that after consuming all the hallucinogenic drugs in the world, the best one can lose himself in is another person, preferably of the same sex. Borges is mentioned in passing as Mick Jagger and James Fox pass through each other.

Past Programs
Robert Mitchum and the Birth of Cool
January 8–31, 2009