Music.

ZSIGMOND, Vilmos, 1930-2016; ROZSA, Miklos, 1907-1995

Motion picture director Pauline Kael famously dubbed "The Last Waltz," "the most beautiful rock movie ever." As a formalist she had a point. With seven cameramen, including Vilmos Zsigmond and Miklos Rozsa, later famed cinematographers, Scorsese professionalized the deliberately nonprofessional documentary sensibility of D.A. So now "The Last Waltz" gives the author a kind of double vision: It's an elegy to "The Band," that is also, perhaps unwittingly, an elegy to an era. The sense of reverence toward the motley parade of music stars trooping across its lenses is intercut with openeyed realism during the best of the connecting interview segments--though those too are frequently tinged with Scorsese's romanticism.