Performance
film by Roeg and Cammell [1970]
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discussed in biography of Roeg
- In Nicolas Roeg
His first film, Performance (1970), codirected with Donald Cammell, was a psychedelic drama starring Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones as a former pop superstar who is drawn into the criminal underworld of 1960s London when he takes in a gangster on the run.
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role of Jagger
- In Mick Jagger: Artist collaborations and other work
…retired decadent rock star, in Performance (1970). Jagger was originally cast in Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo (1982), for which he filmed a scene, but scheduling conflicts forced him to leave the project, and he was also cast to play Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in an early 1970s adaptation of Dune, the classic 1965…
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