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Donald Cammell's and Nicolas Roeg's Performance. What an odd, intriguing piece of cinematic arcana; a film that brings the ultra violent world of the Kray twins into comfortable collision and collusion with the bohemian self-indulgence of 1960s' swinging London. But nothing so obvious as lipstick traces, feather boas and shooters. That's far too obvious. Rather metaphysical slips in time, space and identity. Time, indeed, for a change. In a dialogue between image and text, Erroneous Attributions moves in the wake of, as well as insinuates its own rhythm into the flow of recent and ongoing interest in the film; an interest represented most forcefully by recent books devoted to it such as Paul Buck's Performance: A Biography of the Classic Sixties Film (2012) and Jeremy Mark Robinson's Performance: Pocket Movie Guide (2015). Specific to the central figure of David Litvinoff in this project, Kieron Pim's masterful biography, Jumpin' Jack Flash (2016) attests to ongoing interest in the rock'n'roll underworld associated with this Mephistophelean figure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
