In 1976, The Band decided to throw a party when it was time to call it quits. Their farewell concert included more than a dozen guests—from Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Muddy Waters to Van Morrison, the Staple Singers, Joni Mitchell, and Eric Clapton—and the setlist covered many of their greatest hits (“Up on Cripple Creek,” “Stage Fright,” “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”). Filmmaker extraordinaire Martin Scorsese was on hand to record the whole thing. From its beginning, with the famous title card that says, “This film should be played loud!” to its end, this is a beautiful, mesmerizing tribute well worthy of its status as a classic.

The Last Waltz
The Last Waltz
Tickets: $11 (members), $16 (nonmembers)
"No American movie this year has been as full of the 'joy of making cinema' as Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz."
"At its best the style of The Last Waltz, at once kaleidoscopic and concentrated, discursive and fixated, distils more about its subject and its times (and about its maker and his obsessions) than the impressionism of cinema verite."
This film is part of the Sounds of Summer series.
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