Yes, yes, it's better photographed than the average concert movie, and it's better recorded, and the music itself is on the whole better. And so what? It's still a concert movie, as opposed to a movie movie. (A couple of bonus numbers, "The Weight" and "Evangeline," are staged in a studio amid sweeping camera movements and swirling smoke, and these show off director Martin Scorsese's cinematic prowess at full flex, and at the same time show up the limitations of the authentic concert stuff.) The lugubrious end-of-an-era sentimentality lavished onto The Band's all-star farewell concert, Thanksgiving Day, 1976, is nowhere justified in the post-mortem interview with the glamorously world-weary Robbie Robertson, conducted by the stuttering, sputtering Scorsese ("W-w-w-well, they weren't just "friends," I mean, I mean -- get that fly!"). Featured performers include Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, and Van Morrison. (1978) — Duncan Shepherd
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