Joni Mitchell
Series
Criterion collection volume 1062
Language
English
Description
Martin Scorsese's documentary about Bob Dylan's legendary 1975 tour, which featured a band of troubadours including Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and Joni Mitchell, blends behind-the-scenes archival footage, interviews, and narrative mischief.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1118
Language
English
Formats
Description
"More than just one of the greatest concert films ever made, The Last Waltz is an at once ecstatic and elegaic summation of a vital era in American rock music. Invited to capture 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 (led by director of photography Michael Chapman, and also including...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1062
Language
English
Description
"In 1975, in an America defined by both the self-mythologizing pomp of the upcoming bicenntenial and ongoing sociopolitical turmoil, Bob Dylan and a band of troubadours -- including luminaries such as Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and Joni Mitchell -- embarked on a now-legendary tour known as The Rolling Thunder Revue, a freewheeling variety show that was part traveling counterculture carnival, part spiritual pilgrimage. Director Martin Scorsese blends...