The Last Waltz Movie Review. The website's critical consensus reads, among one of, if not the best rock movie ever made, the last waltz is a revealing, electrifying view of the classic band at their height. Overview of the last waltz, 1978, directed by martin scorsese, with bob dylan, neil young, joni mitchell, at turner classic movies
Take this waltz critics consensus. The last waltz 40 tour is a celebration of the band’s farewell concert performance held on thanksgiving, 1976 at winterland ballroom in san francisco. The rock documentary was filmed by martin scorsese at a farewell concert given on thanksgiving day 1976 by the band, which had been performing since 1960, in recent years as the backup band for bob dylan.
Rather than going out with a whimper, this film plays like a last great hurrah!
That part of the movie aside, ‘the last waltz’ is a celebration of the music by the band and that generation of musicians. That part of the movie aside, ‘the last waltz’ is a celebration of the music by the band and that generation of musicians. The concert was promoted as the last waltz because it was set to be the band’s “farewell concert appearance” after they had been touring the world for almost 16 years. After sixteen years on the road, they had decided to call it a day, and so rick danko (bass, vocals), levon helm (drums, vocals), garth hudson (keyboards, brass, woodwind), richard manuel (piano, vocals) and robbie robertson.
