I am so excited I can’t even tell you to participate in a post-screening discussion of Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell’s 1970 film Performance with Matt Zoller Seitz and writer/editor Ian Hill. The screening is part of “The Sopranos Film Festival“, curated/hosted by Matt Zoller Seitz (who has a book coming out on The Sopranos), with major input from Sopranos creator David Chase himself. (He chose many of the films to be screened at the festival, including Performance).
Performance is screening on January 10, 10:00 pm at IFC Center, discussion to follow. Ticket information here.
Performance is so destabilizing it still feels radical, with its multiple fluid intersections of crime, beauty, sex, celebrity, gender … I mean, whatever else you want to throw in there. Plus starring Mick Jagger, James Fox, Anita Pallenberg and Michele Breton.
I did a re-watch of all of Nicolas Roeg’s stuff this month, following his death, since I was writing a tribute to him for a yet-to-be-disclosed outlet. Performance is fresh in my mind, although – if you’ve seen it – you know how the film never really leaves you. It takes root in your brain. Your nervous system. Its images rise unbidden from the deeps. It’s that kind of movie. I have never seen it on the big screen and I can’t wait.
