Performance

Date: Fri, May 1st 2009 - Mon, May 4th 2009
Event Tags: The Movies
Location: AFI Silver Theatre & Cultural Center PERFORMANCE

 

Nicolas Roeg's debut must be credited equally to the writer and co-director of the film, Donald Cammell. While Roeg was responsible for the execution of filming the material, the themes, characters and tone of the film are attributable to Cammell's bold rendering of sex, drugs and hippie culture. Roeg and Cammell fused violence, ambiguous sexuality, drug use and the Chelsea set together through the story of a psychotic gangster who, after a botched hit, takes refuge in the house of a reclusive former rock star (Mick Jagger) and his libidinous, hallucinogen-ingesting roommates. The performances were notoriously lacking in fiction. (Note courtesy of Harvard Film Archive)

DIR Nicolas Roeg; DIR/SCR Donald Cammell; PROD Sanford Lieberson. UK, 1970, color/b&w, 105 min. RATED R

Friday, May 1, 7:00, 9:15; Saturday, May 2, 9:45; Sunday, May 3, 4:30, 9:35; Monday, May 4, 9:30