Synopsis:
Kevin MacDonald and Chris Rodley produced and directed this
docu-biog about the extraordinary life, work and death of Scottish
film writer and director Donald Cammell, best known for his
collaboration with Nicolas Roeg on the film Performance (1970). The
lead actors in Performance, Mick Jagger and James Fox, are
interviewed along with Roeg, Barbara Steele, Cathy Moriarty, and
avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger, who cast Cammell in his 1973
Lucifer Rising. MacDonald and Rodley, using several interview clips
of Cammell himself, trace his career from his days as a Paris
portrait artist to such films as Demon Seed, White of the Eye, and
The Wild Side with Anne Heche and Christopher Walken, probing the
dark side of Cammell's "dissociative personality" that triggered
his 1996 suicide at the age of 62.
Festivals:
1998 Toronto Film Festival
1998 Chicago Film Festival.
Synopsis:
Kevin MacDonald and Chris Rodley produced and directed this
docu-biog about the extraordinary life, work and death of Scottish
film writer and director Donald Cammell, best known for his
collaboration with Nicolas Roeg on the film Performance (1970). The
lead actors in Performance, Mick Jagger and James Fox, are
interviewed along with Roeg, Barbara Steele, Cathy Moriarty, and
avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger, who cast Cammell in his 1973
Lucifer Rising. MacDonald and Rodley, using several interview clips
of Cammell himself, trace his career from his days as a Paris
portrait artist to such films as Demon Seed, White of the Eye, and
The Wild Side with Anne Heche and Christopher Walken, probing the
dark side of Cammell's "dissociative personality" that triggered
his 1996 suicide at the age of 62.
Festivals:
1998 Toronto Film Festival
1998 Chicago Film Festival.