When Robbie Robertson and The Band performed their final concert at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom in November 1976, it was clearly an ending for the group, as expressed in the title of the 1978 film Martin Scorsese made about the event, “The Last Waltz.” While that movie — by virtually any imaginable criteria, the greatest rock and roll film ever made — documented a farewell, it itself represented a new beginning: a collaboration between Scorsese and Robertson that would last nearly 50 years and yield an astonishing series of masterpieces including “Raging Bull,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” and most recently “Killers of the Flower Moon,” for which Robertson — who died last August at the age of 80 — posthumously scored an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score.
Robertson’s work in “Killers” is the apotheosis of his partnership with Scorsese, a score that exhibits the passion, variety, and depth of expression familiar from Robertson...
Robertson’s work in “Killers” is the apotheosis of his partnership with Scorsese, a score that exhibits the passion, variety, and depth of expression familiar from Robertson...
- 2/13/2024
- by Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
Getty Mike ‘The Situation’ from ‘Jersey Shore’
In the new season of “Jersey Shore,” which starts tonight, we have the cast of the show living in Florence, Italy—the motherland of that great cultural movement known as the Renaissance, the very birthplace of modern culture (though not, of course, the birthplace of reality TV). The possibilities for chaos, train wrecks and cultural absurdities, as the creators of the MTV show know, are endless.
But let’s start with the obvious:...
In the new season of “Jersey Shore,” which starts tonight, we have the cast of the show living in Florence, Italy—the motherland of that great cultural movement known as the Renaissance, the very birthplace of modern culture (though not, of course, the birthplace of reality TV). The possibilities for chaos, train wrecks and cultural absurdities, as the creators of the MTV show know, are endless.
But let’s start with the obvious:...
- 8/4/2011
- by Mark Rotella
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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