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AMERICAN HOT WAX Directed by Floyd Mutrux Screenplay by John Kaye
...someone ever does write a script that does justice to the birth of the rock culture, Floyd Mutrux may be the man to direct it. This erratic film maker at times creates exhilarating order out of American Hot Wax's chaos. There is one infectious sequence in a sound studio where a record producer (played by real-life Record Producer Richard Perry) flamboyantly reshapes a lame rock song into a hit; there's also a surprisingly touch ing scene in which the president of the Buddy Holly Fan Club (well acted by Moosie Drier, 13) tells Freed...
...pastel photography reminiscent of countless TV commercials. Monte Hellman, director of Two-Lane Blacktop, even appears in a cameo role. All this does not amount to much more than another episode of Sunset Strip angst, but there are reassuring indications throughout that Director James Frawley and Scenarist Floyd Mutrux are capable of better work...
...Mutrux and Cinematographer William Fraker capture the feeling: the neon and chromium, the chili-dog stands, the freeways, the drive-in stereo stores and the supermarkets. Nearly all of the characters are played by junkies, not actors. They relive their lives for a camera that observes compassionately as each fix brings them that much closer to self-destruction. Mutrux views his characters as victims, if rather romantic ones. That attitude lends his film a distinct but unsatisfactory ambiguity...
This movie shares one problem with another new film about dope called The Panic in Needle Park. Both Mutrux and Jerry Schatzberg, who directed Needle Park, are too much absorbed by the mechanics of addiction. They include lengthy and excessive footage of dope, needles, veins and various techniques of shooting. Mutrux and Schatzberg understand well enough the conditions of hard doping, but they do not adequately suggest the causes...