Last Waltz (The)
Genre:
concert movie
With: the
Band (Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel and Levon
Helm), Ronnie Hawkins, Dr. John, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, the Staple
Singers, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Bob Dylan and more
Director: Martin
Scorsese
Release: 1978
Studio: FM
Productions, Last Waltz Inc.
Rating: PG
MBiS score: 8.2/10
Stage Fright? Not Tonight!
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Story-line: in
November 1976, the Winterland in San Francisco hosted a special farewell concert
by the Band, the legendary rock group behind The Shape I’m In, Up On Cripple Creek, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and other enduring hits. Mentors,
friends and musical peers joined in.
Pluses: wonderful
live footage, interesting interviews and humorous anecdotes, superb direction, sound recording, photography (Michael Chapman) and editing (Jan
Roblee and Yeu-Bun Yee).
Minuses:
none whatsoever.
Comments: according
to some, THE LAST WALTZ is the best concert movie ever made and I won’t contradict
them. Any way you look at it, this invigorating movie stands as a monument to a
monumental band and a brilliant effort by Martin Scorsese. Rock on, movie buffs!
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