The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 39

39 THEATERARTS The Boston Globe Thursday, September 17, 1970 Movie 'Performance' strangely fascinating posterously bad movie it's difficult to explain its fascination. But fascinating it is, in a bizzare, perverse, intellectual comic-strip way. The straightforward (Kevin Kelly is retiming erf or mane which opened at a Sack Theater in Boston yesterday, from Xeiv York City. A representative of Sack Theaters notified Kelly July 23 that he was "no longer welcome" at Sack previrws or in any Sack Theater in Boston, lid.) story line is slipped between endless cinematic ellipsis in a deliberately pretentious explosion of movie-making technique But, finally, when the last zoom stabbed its subject (literally through the brain) and when the last iris opened and closed on an extravagant detail finally I realized that "Performance" was little more than an act, a surface display covering a vacuum. A fairly stylish London hood named Charles (James Fox) is involved in a protections-racket as a bully-boy.

In an over-zealous rebuttal to the savage beating given him by a man he is supposed to protect, he murders the man and then hot-foots it to escape the vengeance of his own organization. He finds a grubby basement room in an elaborate town house owned by a former pop singer named Turner (Mick Jagger), who shares the above-stairs quarters in decadent bliss with two strange girls (Anita By Kevin Kelly Globe Staff NEW YORK "Performance" is such a pre-- limit: n.rrnaTrsTTri THE MUSICAL REVELATION SUBURBAN 1 1 rA' "J) may be taken as a fantas-ied outpost of a moribund civilization. But all this is after-the-fact decoration which "Performance" self-consciously puts before us, but, without any reason. The center of a vacuum is zero, no matter how curled and wavering its lines. Under the direction of Cammell and Nicholas Roeg, the script is effectively handled.

James Fox is brilliantly restrained as Charles', so restrained he succeeds in parodying the role. Mick Jagger, with thickly carmined lips, long straggled hair, looks like Liza Minelli aping Fredric Chopin, but he exudes a weary insouciance that settles in the film like a vapor and suits it well. The two roommates in his life are competently played by Miss Tallenberg and Miss Breton. While a good deal of the film seems to work against itself, even while keeping Cleveland Circle, Lawrence, Dedham, Neponset, Revere, Suffolk, VFW Parkway and Natick THE BEST AMERICAN FILM THEATERS MALOEN THE LANDLORD SEAL1 BRiDGES URL bUILET OAILY IS Ml A nMimA IS BAT, SUN. lt-fcll-a DHIliUtnU LEEVANCLCtr DAILY l.lS-7.3tT-UW.

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"Sicilian Clan" 7 9:15 Sot. Sun. MILFORD CUUmm "THE mm LANDiOriir, CINEMA 473-1181 "WOODSTOCK" 7:30 MILTON MILTON CINEMA 1 Show 8 p.m. "PATTON" -PI BURLINGTON E.r LOEWS I ORIVEI ive! floseoj i I I iff uipviN.iiiu FRFur, ri INT fASTWOOD 3 JOHN WAYNE CAMBRIDGE Tallenberg and Michele Breton). In a kind of waltz of seduction (the waltz bleated out loud and hard on a Moog Synthesizer), Charles is led into the fantastic life style that daily (and nightly) takes place above his basement ceiling.

At first he finds it perverted. There are mushrooms sprinkled with drugs to suck and strange sexual variations to savor. There's a seemingly continual and voluptuous display of sadism, masochism, transvestism, lesbianism and voyeurism. In addition there are some very odd changes in identity. As all this is going on, the organization is at work.

So is Charles. Having once dyed his hair kidney-red to alter his image, he now fits himself with a long-haired wig for a passport photo. His destination is America. He counts on the help of an outside friend and agrees BEACHCOMBER WOLLASTON BEACH, QUINCY YVONNE MORAY PAUL 0'OONNELL CHERRY BROS. JERRY KENNEALLY FREE WHEELERS AUGUST DINEEN SID WALSH Sun.

Afternoon THE SOUND INVESTMENT EASTERN STANDARD TIME No Cover No Minimum TEL GR 9-8989 2 86 ffTSW COLOR FABIAN FORTE AfM ROARKE Winters I DaAArVI "Both searins and 600 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE Shown at: 2, 4, 6, 8:05. 10:10 antra aitoi ini'ii 'ptiarles Im if GOV I CfNTtRfttxr 1 HOLIDAY INN OCTON 2: CINEMA TO TMt HOLIDAY INN. 0O4TON III 1S3I a Comfortably Air Conditioner! 'MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT MOVIE OF THE YEAR." Sunday Advertiser soldier blue CANDICE PETER STRAUSS BERGEN Dally at; 10, 122, 4, 6, (, 10 Sunaay 1:30, 3:30, 6:30, 7:30, :30 as tan Theatre l.attinoi lev 1 1 7 SO 40 was everything but legal 4P NO ONE fc 4 UNDER 18 ADMITTED IKI COLOR 11:40 1:40 3:40 6:40 7:40 :40 lr In'' OIlOINAl. AUTHENTIC experience. isn't always the, best demonstration is Nevtr befort a Sx Education film in Graphic detail for Married Adult I rjiTir1 i 1 3 (ISrfflMfiBM- I pS NATICK Daily Mats.

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8:00 OO EVES. NEWTON CORNER PARAMOUNT Exit 17 Mass Pike Free Parking 337-7833 (GP) Alain DeLon Jean Gabin "The Sicilian Clan' Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld "Pretty Poison" GP WEST NEWTON NEWTON Alr-Cond. 527-3540 "Bob ft Carol, Ted ft Alice" (R) At p.m. NO RW ELL-HI NGH AM NORWOOD I One Complete Show Starting at 7:30 All Color I "A BULLET FOR PRETTY BOY" GP Fabian Forte Robert Quarry "COUNT YORttA, VAMPIRE" CP Donna Anders CANTON Ton. 1:30 P.M pretty damned wonderful.

Presented here with solid professionalism whatever you do to see it Kelly, Globe ly, Globe JSE Z. CHARLES PLAYHOU Te! Res 338 939J THEATERS GATCH-22 2 '-snss (ma -r OIANT FREE PLAYOHOUNPt SHOW STARTS AT DUSK f5 SMaWrflfB. rrrrn rullcl ror PIUI FRANKENSTEIN MUSI BE Wt DESTROYED BILLERICA I i I i i IJ791 me.3a exitin on laa sT" I fZHTtjKE IN CEMENT" CAMBRIDGE CANTON "BAREFOOT IN THE PARK" MEDFORD DUSK WLANDLORD9 "TD(lP" 'ISIE THE BLOOD OF DRACUU IIIUU NORTH WEYMOUTH "WEEKEND BABYSITTER" A LOVER" Adults! CAMBRIDGE "OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR" 4 8:40 "THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN" At 6:25 4 11:05 Free Eve. Parkina Alr-Cond. 1001 Mas.

Cambridge (MM VJ UN 4-4580ne-e Today-Tuesday! a THE SICILIAN CLAN Alain Delon Eveyn DECLINE AND FALL 110 7ID 6-4226r-ii." 5 CARTOUCHE Balmondo 9:30 THE CONJUGAL BED 7:55 a i UN 4-0428 re- Today-Tutsday! l.rrm.n'. PASSION OF ANNA i INSPECTOR 0L0USEAU THE MISFITS Marilyn Monro Clark Gabl 1 SOME LIKE IT HOT Marilyn i Monroo, Jaok Lommon 1:40 CANTON CINEMA 828-3898 PATTON" 8 P.M. OiiACIeettPay You Cnn Soe pcxovor 2 GETTUiO stpjmt A CHELSEA PARKWAY PLAZA Free Perklne Rte. MA. 1344557 Jean Gabin "THI SICILIAN CI.AN" 1:00 1:30 "PRETTY POISON" 10Q.7 00 DEDHAM 1.

fir a ria well iii living rm IV rant i AW. A HURRY! LAST DATS! iSSSl I HEIXO, WEEK DVST SAT. ft SUN. fl 2 71S95B 1:30 4:15 7:15 8:85 it DfiDjii AD Direr am A 1 tuawruHrlMaaMMMMrarrM I "THE ODD COUPLE" to pay him generously. Then he is double-crossed and the organization, like a specific visual embodiment of the threat in Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party," moves in for the kill.

Charles is skirted away in a white, sepulchral Rolls-Royce, but not until he has shot Turner straight through the brain. Despite the vaguely Pin-teresque pretentions in Donald Cammell's script, my reference to Pinter is merely in passing. Cammell's work is nothing more than a criminal thriller given an odd slant. There are oblique references to illusion and reality and, I guess, the metaphor of Turner's town house Stage, music "HAIR" Wilbur Theater at 8:30. Peace, love and tolerance to the tune of "tribal written by James Rado and Gerorne Ragni, with music by Gait MacDermot, and directed by James Shannon.

"JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS" Charles Playhouse at 8:30. The life, lyrics and music of singer-composer JacQues Brel adapted by Mart Shulman and Eric Blau, with Blau directing the Boston company. "THE PROPOSITION" 241 Hampshire Inman Cambridge, at 8 and 10. Long-running topical, satirical and musical re-veue. "RITUAL '70: A MASS FOR Craft Experimental Theater.

96 Brookline at 8:30. Three highly criticl one act plays representing a plea to save the nation "Red Cros" by Sam Shepard. "Muzeeka" by John Guare. and "Black Mass" by Leroi Jones. IN CUNCLKT GORDON LIGHTFOOT SYMPHONY HALL Tickets: 5.00-4.00-3.00 Box office open 10 a.m.

-6 p.m. also at BU Ticket Office Minute Man Records Harv. Sq. Out of Town Ticket Harv. Sq.

Hub Tyson Ticket Boston featured on REPRISE Records LAST 6 DAYS 2 cinema COMMONWEALTH AVINU6 1 J03 jivi i. an-i i i i rrrn "The people next door" Eli Wallach Julie Harris Snn 4 10 GETTING STRAIGHT'' 2:00. 7:30, W-7 2:30,4:40,7:00,9:15 NOW! ALL HORROR SHOW WITH TROG AND DRACULA THE HORROR BEGINS! OfKAGXA- GP TCHNICOlC. JOAN CRAWFORD OSFWtlFVlNi IMi'jtNISiN I ivtD' renew fMARlENEuOStini RENE CLfMBtT rvrrrn trrncrrniPiTPiPKr tALILIOlrvttl iniAliCt70 MOVIE RATINGS FDR PARENTS AND YOUNG PEOPLE liie ititcHri'ii iiu it ti iafi( liirmtt lrnvl IM sti'ibilitr II' ctniiitt mit ij.mut tinilnt, tt arc jmiiTTtj tiocai ludiencts UrJjfftiUI tiTUCTl Jnir 1 fiojifft farm cn i Bf UNIf II AOMITTCB)-1 jC iu til wj II ICCliI VIII) llH. Au3 'Jfniai iittcivc 1l ll.Ukll 1.1 ntim eoi iur-itiguTii 1 i I SUBURBAN Boston, Braintree, Brockton, Burlington, Cambridge, Framingham, Ipswich, Peabody, Saugus Stoneham GENERAL CINEMA CORP PLUS giwzrw i-rir fry IftdiMacklUNE 11 SWEET FOR SCREEN TIMES SEE MOVIE CLOCK BURT FRAMINGHAM CES 8020 PtABODV 5991310 BRAINTREE 848.1070 BURLINGTON LANCASTER DEAN MARTIN 272-4410 AIRPORT 1NCOLOI 9:30 ELLIOTT GOULD CANDICE Dcnrcu GETTING COLOR 1 BWUKTMI 272-4410 PEABOOY 599-1310 BRAINTREE 948 1070 St "SOLDIER BLUE" BROCKTON -93-8833 Wt5TGATEMALl.RTS.24 17 ELLIOTT hi GOULD Lem STONEHAM' 4jnoso CAMBRIDGE' moo "THE LANDL0R0" 9:20 "SECRET OF SANTA IHE ODD COUPLE" 9:30 Barefoot in the Park 7:30 saugus: HI IMS.

"ODD CQUPU' 130 3U-9 it BABEtOOT IN THE PARK" 3 30-7 30-BOTH C010II I I I strand: I If SUCH "DOCTOR 2HIVAG0" 7:30 IN COLOR "A BULLET FOR PRETTY BOY" "COUNT YORGA'V- PLAZA TWIN DRIVE-IN nummi m600 "TROG" JOAN CRAWFORD The Blood of Dracula' OPEN 7:00 FEAT. 1st at I DORCHESTER AMPlfc AUJK-tNr Hkwr3 EVERETT a ail 730 Sidney poitier "MR. TIBBS" 9:10 1 FOXBORO i ORPHEUM 543-5612 Richard Burton "Anne of 1000 Days" FRANKLIN CINEMA Free Pka. 2 Shows 7 lr 9:00 Sidney Poitier "They Call Me Mr. Tibbs" GEORGETOWN CINEMA 95 Drive-In 352-8666 "Sonte Fron, Cowboy" HINGHAM LORING "PATTON" 8 p.m.! HYDE PARK NU PIXIE CINEMA 361-6111 Exclusive Area Showlnql at 7:45 "PATTON" LEXINGTON LEXINGTON Georqe Scott GP 8 P.M.

"PATTON" MARSHFIELD DRIVE-IN MARSHFIELD DRIVI-IN Theater "Anne Of 1003 Days" 8 P.M. Welt Disney's Short Subects 7:15 Free In-Cor Heeters PARAMOUNT 1 fmmj BOSTON rf 1 1 II OPf RtVMOIIDS 9 i I HUi-4820 f-Jf ACADEMY. award ySt, WINNER! i jAcirv LEMMOX SAK0Y yuuug I ME1LSM0II STORY I THE i kBjBRiilBikMa I I. JUAN CHAWrruND-NIM HAOlM-COLO I "TROG" (GP) 2:30 9:20 I I CHRIfTOfMIII I I "TASTE TO BlOOn Of PR AC UlA" 1 1 7 45 Lee 1 I i. J.

M. MICK JAGGER insouciance us engrossed, one of Cammell's lines is particularly-telling. Throwing out his pendulous lower Jagger says: "The only-performance that makes it; and makes it all the way is madness." Well there's madness here to spare, but it doesn't carry us much beyond the exit to the: street. MUSIC HALL "Bird With th Crystal Plumage." 10, 11:45. Sammy Davis Jr.

Show, 7:30 ORPHEUM "Taste the Blood of, Dracula," 1:36, 4:42, 7:48: 12, 3:11, 6:17, 9:28. PARAMOUNT "Thoroughly Mod-ern Millie," 9:30, 2:10. "Sweet Charity." 11:50, 4:35, 9:20. PARIS CINEMA "The People Nejrj; Door," 2, 4, 6, 8 10 p.m. PARK SQ.

CINEMA 2:30, 4:40, 7:00, 9:15. FI ALLEY "The Virgin the Gypsy," 1:30, 3:15, 5:00, 6:45, 8:30 10:10. SAVOY "Sabata," 10. 12. 2.

4., 6. 8 10. SAXON THEATRE "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever," 3:10. 5:20, SYMPHONY 7:30. 9:45.

CINEMA 1 The Beatles' "Let it Be." 1:50, 4:45, 7:40, "Yellow 3:15, 6:10, 9:05. SYMPHONY CINEMA II Mar Bios. "The Big Store." 4, 7:15, "A Night At the 2:15, 5:25, 8:45. WEST END CINEMA "Ea," 1:40, 3:40, 5:40, 7:40, 9:40. MORE SHOCKING than-psycFT! MORE SENSUAL THAN-REPULSIONw! MORE NERVE RIPPING THAN-MttfjMn i ENDS TODAY! "ANN AND EVE" J.ANNL JK ft a mm 0UHEYWOOD "THE LADY OF MONZA" iVfrBOors TALKING ABOUT "JOE" "miciT JAGGER "Performance" No one Under 18 admitted! Tha thulrit Itc.ltt Oat.

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FILM TIMES ABBEY CINEMA I "The Strawberry Statement," 2, 4, 6, 8 10. ABBEY CINEMA II "Dr. Zhivago," 1:30, 5:00 8:30. ASTOR "Soldier Blue," 10, 12, 2, 4, 6, 8 10 p.m. CENTER "Bullet For Pretty Boy." 11:20, 2:40, 6, "Bloody Mama," 9:40, 1:00, 4:20, 7:40.

CHARLES CINEMA M.A.S.H.. 2:00, 4:00 8:00. 8:05. 10:10. CHERI THEATRES "Performance," 1:30, 3:44, 5:58, 8:12, 10:12.

CHERI THEATRES "Joe," 1:30, 3:40. 5:55, 8 10 p.m. CHERI THEATRES "The Lady of Monza," 1:00, 2:40, 4:20, 6, 8:05, 10:10. CINEMA, KENMORE SQ. "Getting Straight." 2, 7:30, 9:45.

CIRCLE CINEMA "Catch 22," 1:00, 3:00, 5:15. 7:30. 9:55. ET.ETER "Rider On the Rain," 1:30. 3:30, S.30.

7:30, 9:30. GARDEN CINEMA "Getting Straight," 1:30, 3:35, 5:40. 7:40. 9:45. GARY "Ann Eve," 11:40, 3:05, 6:30 lOj "Whirlpool," 10, 1:25, 4:55, 8:15.

NO ONE UNDER 18 ADMITTED! LI 2-1040 131 snm BARBRA STREISAND "ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER" IS mil 21) TIU6NI "SABATA" "GIRLY" WED. gi I i hi 1 I i xx i iimnit li "THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE" r'h 2HTHMCMT llSlJl 1 "THE VIRGIN A AND 5 AT "SICILIAN COUPLE" BAREFOOT IN THE PARK" NORTH WEYMOUTH Scott "THE UNDEFEATED" John Wayne ARLINGTON CAPITOL 64B-4340 Geo. Scott "PATTON" 7:45 REGENT 643-1T97 Sidney Poltier THEY CALL ME MR. TIBB5 :15 "GAILY GAILY" Mellna Mereoni 7:30 ATTLEBORO CINEMA Rte. 95 te Exit 32 Tri-Boro Plata N.

AHIe. eT5-o400 "Beneath Planet of Apes" "Barefoot In Park" 7:00 Odd Couple" 9:00 AVON- "The Odd Couple" Jack Lommon lr Walter Matthou "Barefoot In The Pork" BACK BAY 'GETTING STRAIGHT" I The Beatles "LET IT BE" ft "YELLOW SUBMARINE STUDIO CINEMA lAIr Cendl 484-1706 Geo. C. Scott "PATTON" 8:00 Sot. ft Sun.

Show at lr 8:00 BROCKTON Hits "CHRISTINE JOHliCSK STORY" "What Yeu lay Te a Noked Ledy" BROOKLINE COOLIDG1 COR. AlfCend. 734-2400 1 I Marx Broi. THE BIG STORE" belmont 1 1 -TR00" 0FOflA0ULA I TTEcklEM M(iN "OUT -OF -TOWNtils" I 1 QUINCY 5TRAND 472-1424 24 hr. Ans.

Service Gabin "Sicilian Clan" GP Smith "Prime of Jean Brodie" 1-7 gp SottrSun 1 pm Laurel lr Hardy 4 clowns WOLLASTON-QUINCY WOLLASTON 1 Show at 8 p.m. "Anne Of The 1000 Days" ROSLINDALE RIALTO At 6:15 lr 8:50 (GP) "Anne Of The 1000 Days" Richard Burton-Genevleve Bujold SCITUATE SOMERVILLE SOMERVILLE Alr-Cond. BROADWAY 'Patton' Geo. C. Scott 7:45 SOUTH WEYMOUTH STOUCHTON STATE "M.A.S.H." 7 9:05 WAKEFIELD WAKEFIELD 245-2500 7:30 "The Sicilian Clan" 30 "Viva Max" Jonathan Winters WALTHAM EMBASSY 894-3840 Auto Park 1:30 "PATTON" 8 p.m.

WELLESLEY COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE 235-0047 At 8 P.M. "PATTON" (GP) WEST ROXBURY VILLAGE CINEMA Alr-Cond. 325-0301 A Man You'll Never Ferqetl "Patton' (GP) Color Ive. Show Only At 8 p.m. Geo.

C. Scott It Korl Maldtn WINCHESTER 11 fjWINCHESTER JANE FONDA R08CRT REDFORO BAREFOOT PARK JACK LEMM0N "THE ODD COUPLE" WINTHROP CINEMA 846-3440 John Weyne "Chisum" (G) CHELMSFORD Ul mijaninfc SWfliimMm mm ulilib PATRONIZE YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD THEATER "THI SICILIAN CLAN" IGPI C.COMMUNITY 326-1441 left Act "THE ODD COUPLI" 7:00 a.m. "PR Ml OP MISS JEAN IRODII" 1 "BAREFOOT IN THI PARK" 1 p.m. .4.