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Martin Scorsese’s film The Last Waltz is practically The Robbie Robertson Show; he appears in nearly every frame, and frequently talks over his bandmates in interview clips. (Richard Manuel, once described by Eric Clapton as “the true light of The Band,” is mostly M.I.A.) As good as The Last Waltz is in many ways, Scorsese seems bent on lionizing his good friend Robertson at the expense of his equally worthy partners, which wasn’t lost on critics like Dave Marsh, who quipped that Robertson is “one of the few people capable of making Bob Dylan seem humble.
