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Those bitter arbiters of taste
![MADE nearly 30 years apart, the psychedelic London psychodrama "Performance" and the sugary Versailles romp "Marie Antoinette" — both out on DVD this week — have a surprising amount in common. Both concern role-playing games and identity formation. Both are sensual pinnacles of high-aesthete decadence. Both inject rock-star glamour into incongruous genres: the gangster film and the costume drama. And both were perceived as easy targets for a critical drubbing.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-02/27823236.jpg "MADE nearly 30 years apart, the psychedelic London psychodrama "Performance\" and the sugary Versailles romp \"Marie Antoinette\" — both out on DVD this week — have a surprising amount in common. Both concern role-playing games and identity formation. Both are sensual pinnacles of high-aesthete decadence. Both inject rock-star glamour into incongruous genres: the gangster film and the costume drama. And both were perceived as easy targets for a critical drubbing.")
Special to The TimesMADE nearly 30 years apart, the psychedelic London psychodrama "Performance" and the sugary Versailles romp "Marie Antoinette" — both out on DVD this week — have a surprising amount in common. Both concern role-playing games and identity...Tags: Drama (genre), Health, Gaming, Sofia Coppola, Mick Jagger
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Dylan, Hendrix DVDs show rock 'n' roll history in action
Special to The TimesThere haven't been that many nights in rock 'n' roll when you could say after a performance that music will probably never be the same again, but two marvelous new DVDs let us revisit two such evenings. "The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at...Tags: Festive Events, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones (music group), Documentary (genre), Popular Music (genre)
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'Stoned'
![Longtime British producer Stephen Woolley — most notably of such Neil Jordan films as "The Crying Game" and "Interview With the Vampire" — makes his directing debut with the lethargic drama "Stoned." An account of the final months of founding Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, who drowned in 1969, the film is a hodgepodge of bohemian decadence, finely observed period detail and an overdose of flashbacks.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-03/22581606.jpg "Longtime British producer Stephen Woolley — most notably of such Neil Jordan films as "The Crying Game\" and \"Interview With the Vampire\" — makes his directing debut with the lethargic drama \"Stoned.\" An account of the final months of founding Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, who drowned in 1969, the film is a hodgepodge of bohemian decadence, finely observed period detail and an overdose of flashbacks.")
Times Staff WriterLongtime British producer Stephen Woolley — most notably of such Neil Jordan films as "The Crying Game" and "Interview With the Vampire" — makes his directing debut with the lethargic drama "Stoned." An account of the final months of...Tags: Drama (genre), Neil Jordan, Crimes, The Rolling Stones (music group), Keith Richards
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Stones show is worth the wait
Sun ReporterHigh-energy Stones show is worth the wait Thirty-six years may have passed since the Rolling Stones last played Baltimore, but on Wednesday night Mick, Keith and the boys made the passage of time seem irrelevant with a relentless, classics-heavy set of...Tags: Washington (U.S. state), The Rolling Stones (music group), Super Bowl, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards
Feb 11, 2007
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Oct 17, 2007
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 24, 2006
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Feb 3, 2006
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Original site for Brian Jones topic gallery.
