Payday (1972)
I read about the recent reissue of Payday on dvd from Entertainment Weekly, which called it corrosive and uproarious.
The review in the Time Out film guide praises it for its portrayal of the music industry:
it remains one of those welcome movies made by people with genuine knowledge of their subject, on the assumption that their audience is going to be reasonably knowledgeable and interested in the first place.
70’s movies have an element of cool that defines them as surely as the wardrobe and the slang do. Rip Torn is a medium successful country star, and the film follows him and his shifting entourage through 36 hours. The pace was leisurely, but certain moments, and the seedy atmosphere, lingered after the film was done.