Film
Please note: This was screened in Sept 2023
More than just one of the greatest concert films ever made, The Last Waltz is an ecstatic and elegiac summation of a vital era in American rock music.
Invited to capture the farewell performance of the legendary group the Band at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom on Thanksgiving in 1976, Martin Scorsese conceived a new kind of music documentary.
Enlisting seven camera operators and production designer Boris Leven to design the strikingly theatrical sets, Scorsese created a grandly immersive experience that brings viewers onstage and inside the music itself.
[Synopsis credit: Criterion]