The Last Waltz (U)
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Opening with the band's encore, the film intermingles high-intensity concert footage and lo-fi chats with the singer Robbie Robertson and the others, looking back over a 16-year career with fondness, disbelief and a somewhat dry-throated exhaustion (you can almost smell the weed in the room). It's a notable record, not just for the guest cameos – Dylan, Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, et al – but for the lurking presence of Scorsese himself, putting his camera right in the middle of the action and popping up in person during the interviews. Impossible to view now without strong stirrings of nostalgia.
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