July 2018
Films
about bands are supposed to follow the arc of forming, start out
awful, get better, create personal or artistic friction, achieve
success, then implode just as the world can't get enough of them.
Then
there's Leningrad Cowboys.
For
See Hear podcast episode 54, Bernie, Tim and Maurice discuss Aki
Kaurismaki's 1989 film Leningrad Cowboys Go America about a band from
Siberia in the era of glasnost attempting to break into America. They
are led through “the promised land” with a clueless manager and
followed by their village idiot (who just may be the cousin / brother
no one wants to talk about). They play to unreceptive audiences while
travelling across America to play at a Mexican wedding, but is that
of any importance to them?
The
crew discuss music as the air we breathe, adapting to one's
environment, the ruling class / working class divide, onions, Elvis
quiffs, carrying a stiff around, and rrrrrrrock & rrrrrrroll.
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