Online viewing tip. Donald Cammell: The Ultimate Performance.

"There are enough romantic flourishes in [Donald] Cammell's life to warrant a full-scale biography." Reading Ray Young's new piece at Flickhead, "Cinema Obscura: Ruminations on Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg and Performance," you'll find it hard to argue. Performance is now commonly perceived as Roeg's triumph, but Ray finds the Cammell in it, adding, "Cammell's formative years were lived with a father sensitive to the principles of Dante Rossetti and the pre-Raphaelites. A movement against stale, formula-driven art, they mourned the death of one culture's passion and trumpeted the glory of another's birth. In this respect, Performance transcends every other youth and/or counterculture film of its period."

Here's the online viewing tip. Donald Cammell: The Ultimate Performance.

Related: Leo Goldsmith and Rumsey Taylor's special feature on Cammell at Not Coming to a Theater Near You.

Posted by dwhudson at June 13, 2007 1:13 PM