More than just one of the greatest concert films ever made, The Last Waltz is at once an ecstatic and elegiac summation of a vital era in American rock music. Invited to capture the farewell performance of legendary group The Band at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom on Thanksgiving of 1976, Martin Scorsese conceived a new kind of music documentary. Enlisting production designer Boris Leven to design the strikingly theatrical sets and seven camera operators (including director of photography Michael Chapman and renowned cinematographers Vilmos Zsigmond and László Kovács), Scorsese created a grandly immersive experience that brings viewers onstage and inside the music itself. That music—as performed by The Band and a host of other generation-defining artists, including Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, the Staple Singers, Muddy Waters, and Neil Young—lives on as an almost spiritual expression of the transcendent possibilities of rock and roll. Relive the era-defining moment with this glorious new restoration.
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