I generally love Roeg's stuff, although I believe you're right about Performance being primarily a Cammell film. I watched Walkabout again recently and was reminded just what a great film it is. The fact that he's had any kind of Hollywood career at all is sort of amazing - although I think he sort of destroyed his industry rep in the 80s, with rubbish flops like Castaway (if Roeg produced one piece of 'hack work' it's surely that, not Don't Look Now) and the just too odd for its own good, Track 29.
I Watched Cammell's Whites of the Eye a few years ago and wasn't that into it, but I keep hearing and reading things about it so I really should give it another go.
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