Performance (Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell, 1970)
Again it’s a transformative movie. There are segments in Performance where I don’t understand how they did them. I don't know what they were thinking when they made the decisions.
I thought it was just incredible. It’s like a playbook for editing and for boldness of filmmaking. To take what is essentially quite a straightforward genre film and then transform it into a kind of search through the soul of the two men is incredible. And then that Roeg cutting pattern that seems to be developed in Performance and then spreads out into Walkabout, Bad Timing and The Man Who Fell to Earth. Those movies were massively influential on me.