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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (1976) – The Band (The Last Waltz)

Posted on June 17, 2025 by observationblogger — 14 Comments

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down is drawn from the final concert by The Band – The Last Waltz – held on Thanksgiving Day, 1976, at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom. Superlatives are scarcely suffice when describing The Band’s performance…

Tagged with: Joan Baez, Martin Scorsese, robbie robertson, the band, the last waltz, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Posted in Music

The Highly Anticipated ‘The Irishman’ – Martin Scorsese

Posted on July 31, 2019 by observationblogger — 6 Comments

The year was 1995. Scorsese, De Niro, & Pesci teamed up in CASINO (and GOODFELLAS in 1990) and De Niro & Pacino in HEAT. And now all four have finally come together in Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’. Arguably the greatest cast…

Tagged with: Crime drama, Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
Posted in Movies and TV

Music Homage Films Abound in 2019 (Beatles, Springsteen, Elton John & Bob Dylan)

Posted on May 3, 2019 by observationblogger — 8 Comments

After the big box-office smash hit Bohemian Rhapsody, film studios must have been wiping the dust off dozens of musical homage scripts faster than they could sing: ‘We will, we will rock you!’. Yesterday and Blinded By The LightIn similar…

‘Love and Theft’ – American Hustle (2013)

Posted on December 31, 2013 by observationblogger — 2 Comments

David Russell lent heavily from Martin Scorsese’s best crime dramas to make American Hustle. The narratives, music and editing are an almost direct homage to Scorsese’s 90’s work particularly Casino. Even De Niro makes a key entrance wearing the same…