On Tap at The New Beverly
The next stop for LiC’s continuing New Beverly Nights feature will hopefully be Friday or Saturday’s double-feature of Performance (1970) and O Lucky Man! (1973).
If there is anyone out there in the greater (or lesser) Los Angeles area who’d like to join me, drop me a line and we can coordinate. 7 bucks. Cheap!
Performance is Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell’s satire about a gangster on the lam in the home of a reclusive rock star starring Mick Jagger, Mick Jagger, James Fox and James Fox. Yes, you read that correctly. It’s a mind-bending freak out of sex, drugs, rock, roll and crime. Also with Anita Pallenberg, the unofficial sixth Stone and the mother of Keith Richards’ children. Here’s a clip of Mick singing Memo from Turner:
O Lucky Man! is the second part of Lindsay Anderson’s satiric Mick Travis trilogy which began in 1968 with If… Malcolm McDowell returns as Mick, an ambitious coffee salesman whose enthusiasm leads him on a strange odyssey of sex, torture, scientific experiments and rock and roll, courtesy of Animals keyboardist Alan Price. Think Candide brought to 1970’s England and you might be on the right track. Also with Helen Mirren and Ralph Richardson.
What say you? Any takers?
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I can’t believe I didn’t even know of the Beverly when I was in L.A…. Not that it would have mattered much - I didn’t have a car - but still.
The New Bev kind of toiled under the radar for a lot of the time I’ve lived here. Its popularity has seen a resurgence though in the last year or so ever since Tarantino had his Grindhouse film festival last year though. Certain nights it seems to be the cool place to be in LA…for movie nerds anyway and you can’t throw a stick in this town without hitting one of them.
friday fer me. with shrooms.
I saw both of these films years (and years) ago — with O Lucky Man leaving the stronger, more positive impression, though I remember it as rather longish. Let me know what you think, Craig.