The last waltz
Martin Scorsese (Film director, Interviewer), Robbie Robertson (Film producer, Performer, Interviewee), Eric Clapton (Performer), Neil Diamond (Performer), Bob Dylan (Performer), Joni Mitchell (Performer), Neil Young (Performer), Emmylou Harris (Performer), Van Morrison (Performer), Dr John (Performer), Muddy Waters (Performer), Paul Butterfield (Performer), Ronnie Hawkins (Performer), Ringo Starr (Performer), Ron Wood (Performer), Michael Chapman, Boris Leven (Production designer), Yeu-Bun Yee (Editor of moving image work), Jan Roblee (Editor of moving image work), Michael McClure (Performer), Geoffrey Chaucer, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Band (Musical group) (Performer), Staple Singers (Performer), MGM Home Entertainment Inc (Production company), United Artists (Firm) (Film distributor)
"More than just one of the greatest concert films ever made, The Last Waltz is an at once ecstatic and elegiac summation of a vital era in American rock music. Invited to document the farewell performance of the legendary group the Band at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom on Thanksgiving, 1976, Martin Scorsese conceived a new kind of music documentary. Enlisting seven camera operators (including renowned cinematographers Vilmos Zsigmond, László Kovács, and Michael Chapman) and art director Boris Leven to design the strikingly theatrical sets, 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 religious expression of the transcendent possibilities of rock and roll." - Amazon.com
DVD Video, English, 2005
Special edition
MGM Home Entertainment, Santa Monica, Calif., 2005