The Last Waltz (1978)
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese's documentary intertwines footage from The Band's incredible farewell tour with probing backstage interviews and featured performances by Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, and other rock legends.
4 connections found
View:
4 connections, in both directions
What critics compared The Last Waltz to
It reminded me of such expert concert films as Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense and Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz.
Musical sequences are beautifully constructed with camera moves echoing great concert films like The Last Waltz and Stop Making Sense , and the entire film is punctuated by close-ups of instruments, mid-play, set to the tune of the music.
Alongside the wide-canvas American epics for which he’s best known—stories of men, often working-class, driven to corruption and worse by their monomaniacal desire for wealth, power and fame—there has been a parallel strand of films, from The Last Waltz to Hugo , dedicated to the art of performance, the magic of the movies, and the relationship between artist and audience.
And although he’s known for his New York crime movies, his work spans a variety of genres (The Last Waltz, Kundun The Last Temptation of Christ).
Ao longo de sua carreira, Martin Scorsese dirigiu comédias de humor sombrio ( O Rei da Comédia , Depois de Horas ), dramas românticos ( A Época da Inocência ), meditações teológicas ( A Última Tentação de Cristo , Silêncio ), suspenses que beiram o terror ( Cabo do Medo , Ilha do Medo ), estudos de personagem ( Vivendo no Limite , Taxi Driver , Alice Não Mora Mais Aqui ), documentários sobre Cinema ( Minha Viagem à Italia ), sobre cineastas ( Carta para Elia ), sobre músicos (George Harrison, Bob Dylan), sobre escritores ( Public Speaking ) e registros de shows ou do histórico de bandas célebres ( The Last Waltz , Shine a Light ).
Others drop in and pay their respects, Bobby Cannavale, Jesse Plemons, Ray Romano, Sebastian Maniscalco, Anna Paquin and rapper Action Bronson among them, while Robbie Robertson, a Scorsese collaborator going back to "The Last Waltz," turns in a brooding, jazz-inflected score.