SEPTEMBER 1979, TAMPERE

Floyd Mutrux: American Hot Wax (US 1978), one of the great rock films. The central figure  is Alan Freed (Tim McIntire) in the heat of the payola scandal. Based on essential rock and roll history, with Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Frankie Ford as themselves.

Позови меня в даль светлую / Isää ei tarvita [insultingly bad Finnish title translation] / Call Me From Afar. SU 1976. D: German Lavrov & Stanislav Lyubshin. Vasili Shukshin. With Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Stanislav Lyubshin, Mikhail Uljanov. Fine Shukshin moments in this posthumous film adaptation
Мимино / Haukka / [The Falcon]. GE-SU 1977. D: Georgi Danelia. Capitol. dismal
American Hot Wax / Kuumaa vahaa. US 1978. D: Floyd Mutrux. An engaging interpretation of the Alan Freed payola story
Щорс / Punaisen lipun alla / Shors. SU 1939. D: Aleksandr Dovzhenko. SEA Joukola
Hair / Hair. US 1979. D: Milos Forman. Gerome Ragni & James Rado. Gloria. Sympathetic
La Salamandre / Salamanteri. CH 1971. D: Alain Tanner. Bulle Ogier. Solaris. "In Brazil they destroy the body, here, the soul"