Performance (film)

Performance
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Donald Cammell Nicolas Roeg
Written by	Donald Cammell
Produced by	Sanford Lieberson
Starring	James Fox Mick Jagger Anita Pallenberg Michèle Breton
Cinematography	Nicolas Roeg
Edited by	Antony Gibbs Brian Smedley-Aston
Music by	Jack Nitzsche
Production company	Goodtimes Enterprises
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release dates	3 August 1970 (1970-08-03) (New York City) 7 January 1971 (1971-01-07) (London)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£750,000

Performance (stylised in promotional material as performance.) is a 1970 British crime drama film directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, written by Cammell and filmed by Roeg. The film stars James Fox as a violent and ambitious London gangster who, after killing an old friend, goes into hiding at the home of a reclusive rock star (Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones).

The film was produced in 1968 but not released until 1970, as Warner Bros. was reluctant to distribute the film, owing to its sexual content and graphic violence. It initially received a mixed critical response, but its reputation has grown since then, and it is now regarded as one of the most influential and innovative films of the 1970s, as well as one of the greatest films in the history of British cinema. In 1999, Performance was voted the 48th greatest British film of the 20th century by the British Film Institute. In 2008 Empire magazine ranked the film 182nd on its list of the 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.