The Movie: Performance (1970)
What Is It?: Donald
Cammell and Nic Roeg make their directorial debut and Mick Jagger makes his
acting debut and the results are certainly without precedent: a pop flick that
plays more like a Bergman art house flick than an episode of “The Monkees”.
Jagger only gets one chance to do his thing, but the “Memo from Turner”
sequence is wild enough to sustain an hour and 45 minutes of personality
swapping, sleazy sex, and queasy sound effects.
Why Today?: Today
is Lips Appreciation Day.
