16 + GUIDE - British Film Institute

THE GUARDIAN
16 th October 1997, pp.9
Total recall, nearly, by Steven Severin
An interview with Anita Pallenberg (Pherber) about the making of PERFORMANCE and her life
subsequently. Severin and Pallenberg make many interesting reflections on the film and the
1960’s.
DAILY TELEGRAPH
3 rd June 1998, pp.24, 27-28, 30
Performance was the film that blew the minds of everyone who saw it…,by Mick Brown
An exhaustive and compelling account of the making of PERFORMANCE; the people involved
and its aftermath. Thoroughly recommended for anyone studying the film.
EVENING STANDARD
13 th October 1997, p.50
Sympathy for the devilish, by Max Bell
A brief preview of a screening of PERFORMANCE at the ICA. Covers a lot of the same ground
as many other articles.
THE GUARDIAN
9 th September 1993, p.6
The intruders within, by Richard Combs
Combs describes PERFORMANCE as a “singular event in British cinema” and goes on to
compare the film with other British films, including THE LADYKILLERS and THE SERVANT.
Provides an interesting perspective of the film and post-war British cinema.
THE SUNDAY EXPRESS
3 rd January 1971
Performance, by Richard Barkley
A review that actually focuses for the main part on the gangsters and criminals of the film
rather than on the events in Turner’s (Mick Jagger’s) flat. While not applauding the style of
the film Barkley contends that the film is an ambitious contrast between “the assertive criminal
and the passive drop-out”.
NEW SOCIETY
21 st January 1971
Jugglers, by Michael Wood
Describing the film as a “mishmash…of fashionable and uncontrolled ideas about sex, art,
music and violence”; this critical review of the film ends with Wood stating, “What is wrong
with Performance is not its loving attention to a gangster, but the lofty and literary and
metaphysical nature of that attention”.
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