The Last Waltz – Co-Presented with SFFILM
About this Event
A pre-screening conversation moderated by Ben Fong-Torres will feature cinematographer and onstage cameraman for the film crew Hiro Narita, music critic and journalist Joel Selvin, and The Last Waltz producer and former tour manager for The Band Jonathan Taplin.
On Thanksgiving Day in 1976, The Band took the stage alongside an extraordinary lineup of music icons, including Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, and Emmylou Harris, for what would become one of rock's most celebrated farewell concerts. Through a blend of live performances and candid conversations, Scorsese transforms the event into a deeply cinematic reflection on The Band's legacy and the evolution of rock and roll. Released in 1978, the same year Winterland closed its doors, The Last Waltz preserves the legacy of one of San Francisco's most legendary cultural landmarks while standing among the most influential music documentaries ever made.
View the film in our newly renovated Kanbar Hall, featuring Dolby Atmos surround sound, 4K projection and enhanced acoustics for an immersive film experience.
Language: English
Year: 1978
Runtime: 117 minutes
Director(s): Martin Scorsese
Format: 4K
Ben Fong-Torres, who joined Rolling Stone in 1969, became its music editor and, many years later, a real-life character in the movie, Almost Famous. During his time at Rolling Stone, Ben covered musical events including the final concert of The Band featured in Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz. In his own real life, he profiled such artists as Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Paul McCartney, Marvin Gaye, the Rolling Stones, and Ike and Tina Turner. He has published a dozen books, including a memoir, The Rice Room, and continues to work as a writer, editor, broadcaster, MC-about-town, and Emmy Award-winning TV host. He is the subject of a documentary, called, what else? Like a Rolling Stone. He lives with Dianne, his wife, in San Francisco.
Hiro Narita
CINEMATOGRAPHER AND ONSTAGE CAMERAMAN
Upon graduating from San Francisco Art Institute in 1964 he spent over thirty-five years exploring the interaction of light, color and composition as carriers of emotion and story both in documentary and narrative genre. A fellow in Culture and Communication at the East-West Center in Hawaii, he lectured, mentored and juried in the republic of Georgia and Kazakhstan. Recipient of many awards, he is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for which he juried the Student Academy Awards for many years.
His credits include Farewell to Manzanar (1976), Never Cry Wolf (1983), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), The Rocketeer (1991), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1992), Hocus Pocus (1993), and Technolust (2002).
Joel Selvin
MUSIC JOURNALIST
Joel Selvin has covered pop music for the San Francisco Chronicle since shortly after the Civil War. His magazine articles have appeared in publications all over the world you would have thought knew better. Some people have actually read his books.
Jonathan Taplin
PRODUCER AND FORMER TOUR MANAGER FOR THE BAND
Jonathan Taplin’s extraordinary journey has put him at the crest of every major cultural wave in the past half century: he was tour manager for Bob Dylan and The Band in the ’60s, producer of major films in the ’70s, an executive at Merrill Lynch in the ’80s, creator of the Internet’s first video-on-demand service in the ’90s, and a cultural critic and author writing about technology in the new millennium.
Taplin is the Director Emeritus of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and author of The Magic Years: Scenes from a Rock and Roll Life and Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon Have Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy which was nominated by the Financial Times as one of the Best Business Books of 2017. He is also the author of The End of Reality: How Elon Musk and His Friends are Changing Your World and a memoir, The Magic Years. Taplin has produced music and film for Bob Dylan and The Band, George Harrison, Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Gus Van Sant and many others. He was the founder of Intertainer, the first streaming Video On Demand Platform in 1996
Mr. Taplin graduated from Princeton University. He was a Professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism from 2003-2016. He is a member of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He currently sits on the board of The Authors Guild. His commentary has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Time Magazine, The Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly and the Wall Street Journal.
Our community partner for this is SFFILM.
All seating is first come, first served.
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