I Like That, Turn It Up

from Performance, 1970

written by Donald Cammell
photographed by Nicolas Roeg
directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg

 . . . now incoming . . . a "Memo from Turner" . . .
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words and music by Mick Jagger
(from concepts suggested by Donald Cammell)
music performed by Jack Nitzsche, Ry Cooder, Lowell George, Jimmy Miller, Randy Newman

featuring
Mick Jagger as Turner
James Fox as Chas
Michele Breton as Lucy
Stanley Meadows as Rosie

Earlier this year, there was some word from a DVD producer at Warner Bros. (in an online chat) that this great film had a good chance of coming to DVD this year or next (as well as my other most-wanted DVD release, Ken Russell's The Devils).

As both Performance and The Devils have been re-released in remastered, restored, uncut widescreen versions -- on VHS only, for some reason -- in England, perhaps we'll finally get them here sometime soon here.

In the meantime, I write to The Criterion Collection a couple times a year asking them if they wouldn't consider doing for Performance what they've done for co-director Roeg's Bad Timing, The Man Who Fell To Earth, and Walkabout.

In the meantime, "Here's to old England!"