FINALLY, after all these years a cleaned up, remixed, full of bonus material PERFORMANCE is coming out on DVD tomorrow (2/13) in the USA/Canada. Definitely the best acting work Jagger has ever done (he really IS Turner) and just a super original, one of a kind story and film that could have only come out of the late 60's. If you wanna get this by Tues or Wed AMAZON has over night service for $3.00. Also, on another thread here (Performance playing in NY this weekend maybe?) there's a VERY LONG review of this cleaned up new version. There have been some very minor changes made to the film that end up amounting to a few seconds and one minor mistake (Vocal drop out) but besides that the guy raves about it endlessly. A GREAT FILM, not to be missed......


SEE JUST WRITTEN (2/13) REVIEW OF THE NEW DVD BY HELTER AT BOTTOM OF PAGE ONE !!!



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What is the bonus material?

2 shorts on "the making of"(I believe) + a super clean trailer (best to find that extensive review on the other PERFORMANCE thread or at least read AMAZON'S write up - I believe they go into the extra's on there)

Great, a 'must have' - thanks!

No problemo MOWAT. Every Stones fan needs to own this film. Fits right in with that late 60's period of Rock and Roll Circus, Sympathy for the Devil(One Plus One), and the whole vibe.......

I ordered it a few months back (Amazons) and the emailed me to give me the good news that it was shipped...Great

cool - there's a region-2 version coming out soon too: [www.amazon.co.uk]

play.com have it advertised for 9.99 pounds

I want the X rated version with Mick & Anita!!!!

MLC

no such thing, those scenes are a myth, as per jagger and anita in interviews
ive read, i wish it were true also

Awww Yeah.....





ROCKMAN

That can't be, lol, is it Jagger?
Who's to the left, Anita, or Keith ?

Suppose to be out-take shots from Performance.
And it kinda looks Keith on the left plus appears
Keith was tellin' the truth about Mick havin' big clangers...



ROCKMAN

Maybe it's footage used for blackmailing, from one of them orgies,
and one of the girls had a camera. It happens to me too.

One amazon.com review-

The Film That Explains The Legend Of The Rolling Stones, October 25, 2002
Reviewer: Richard R. Carlton (Ada, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This is one film where the legend does not obscure the brilliance of the plot, the direction of the scenes, and the players....the players with the famous goings on inside and outside the shoot. The cast was not only acting but actually doing the drugs and sex portrayed on the screen. The film pretty much destroyed everyone who worked on it except Mick and Keith and the Stones. Anita Palenberg was incoherent for years afterwards, James Fox underwent a religious experience and ceased acting for a decade, one actor became a heroin dealer, another committed suicide, another committed murder and became a junkie before he died young. Stephen Davis (in his book "Old Gods Almost Dead") says that when the original Cammell and Roeg print was shown to the Warner executives, one's wife vomited and the whole audience left the screening room before the film ended. The true legend of the rock hard, satanic Rolling Stones was born when the band survived both Performance and the only live murder ever included in a movie during the Altamont Festival (shown in the film "Gimme Shelter").
While you watch the film, remember that Keith Richards is waiting outside in his Bentley (writing You Got The Silver) while Anita (his girlfriend) seduces Mick (his best friend) for real on the closed set. The way I heard the story, when Cammell called the scene, to the amazement of the crew, they kept going through orgasm. Keith refused to give Cammell the newly recorded Let It Bleed songs for the soundtrack because of all this.....he told friends he knew that if he was on the set and saw Mick, the Stones would have been history....but the band was his life so he just waited it all out.

The studio shut down production and then refused to release the censored film for several years. Stephen Davis says Cammell edited the footage of Mick and Anita into a 30 min blue movie that later won awards at an Amsterdam porno film festival. The other story that tops this is that even Cammell told Mick the original lyrics to Memo From Turner would have to be rewritten (there was a reference to performing oral sex on policemen) but with Keith refusing to help, there was no way to record new instrumental tracks for the revised lyrics. They ended up just cutting out the offending parts.

The film mirrors this life....schizophrenia on parade as gangster Chas Devlin meets and merges with rock star Turner in a real-life performance that includes nearly every legally-filmable decadence invented. Oh and for Stones fans - don't miss the musical moment when Mick runs through a Robert Johnson tune for you. Just make sure you have a strong stomach and realize what you are doing when you press the start button!

ROCKMAN, now you did it, LITTLE QUEENIE see's those nude shots of Jagger and who knows what will happen (I can only guess).....

Anyone know when the UK release date for this is?

WHOA....Yeah HelterSkelter....
Little Queenie just might do a Lil' Screemie......AAAhhhhhhhhhh



ROCKMAN

I was thinking more in the area of downpour but probably both.....

Erik_Snow Wrote:
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> That can't be, lol, is it Jagger?
> Who's to the left, Anita, or Keith ?


Michele Breton

Gazza Wrote:
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> Michele Breton

OK...I thought I saw something that belongs to a woman,
it's such a tiny pic, well, if so it has to be a Performance outtake

It could be from the camera Anita is filming Mick with in the film!?

HelterSkelter Wrote:
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> ROCKMAN, now you did it, LITTLE QUEENIE see's
> those nude shots of Jagger and who knows what will
> happen (I can only guess).....

i just saw them! my oh my! i can't get over the size of his pubic hair patch (lol) -

it's hard to believe that's not keith next to him - the only thing that defines it as a woman is a slight curve of the breast.

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cirrhosis Wrote:
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> little queenie Wrote:
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> > it's hard to believe that's not keith next to
> him
>
> It's a bit like that Seinfeld episode, where
> George dates the woman who looks like Jerry.
>
> Who am I kidding. I would sleep with Keith's
> daughter for the same reason.

lol...theadora? she does look a lot like keith!

little queenie Wrote:
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> i just saw them! my oh my! i can't get over the
> size of his pubic hair patch (lol) -
>
> it's hard to believe that's not keith next to him
> - the only thing that defines it as a woman is a
> slight curve of the breast.


OK little queenie - here I think we're in total agreement - oh my!

Keith has a hairier torso than whoever is in the picture beside the hirsute groin!

Stargroves Wrote:
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> Keith has a hairier torso than whoever is in the
> picture beside the hirsute groin!

yes, good point...

Ah, come on gang, we all know no one was trimming / shaving their body hair until all these body builders on steroids "showed us the way" - lol. First , I think it looks worse than it was is because the shot is VERY contrasty so some of that could be shadow that blended in. Second, if you think that's bad check out the women in LAST TANGO IN PARIS and 1984.... ANYWAY...

FIRST REVIEW BY HELTERSKELTER !!! JUST WATCHED THE DVD !!!

AMAZON box came and HS just watched the DVD. Picture is now beautiful, scratch free, and the colors are nice and deep/strong. The sound seems to be in 5.1 (there's no choice) or maybe my system put it into 5.1. MEMO FROM TURNER sounds FANTASTIC !!! Mick singing/playing solo guitar on Robert Johnson's COME IN MY KITCHEN is much crisper than the official video tape was (Sound rating from 1 to 10 - MEMO 9.5 / KITCHEN 8.5)The featurettes are interesting showing Mick being directed in the "Businessman Turner" scene - really interesting stuff. He seems stoned (the eyes) throughout the whole film so maybe that's why his acting is so good - it - the drugs toned him down enough to seem totally real as Turner. In other films he ALWAYS looks like he's "acting". The thing I noticed most about this DVD release is all the little things you pick up on that you never noticed before - both in sound and visually. A VERY worthwhile purchase. If you like this film you're gonna love the DVD. If you've never seen it you are in for a treat cause there's NOTHING like it, not even close !!! DIDN'T I SEE YOU AT THE COKE CONVENTION/BACK IN 1965?..... WHAT A TRIP THIS FILM IS !!!! (sorry, had to visit 60's land for a second)

Thanks Mr Helter....gonna be a grindin' time to see it again...



ROCKMAN

Thanks for posting that the DVD is now available, HelterSkelter. I just ordered it from Amazon.ca (I have the movie on VHS but the quality is not good).

Gazza, is Michele Breton dead? I think I read somewhere that she killed herself.