The gig is root-rockers The Band’s San Francisco farewell in 1976, “a kind of elegy”, says Scorsese, for a band and an era buckled by drugs and time. Members seem blitzed in interview segments but the gig is alive and momentous.

Joined by mega-stars (Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, a steaming Neil Young…), The Band live up to their myth in Scorsese’s scorching testament.

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Shame the winner was Rocky, not Scorsese’s masterpiece of urban alienation, which turns 35 this month.

Though its iconic elements – De Niro’s unstable cabbie, Jodie Foster’s child prostitute, “You talkin’ to me?” – earned immortality, it’s screenwriter Paul Schrader’s palpable disgust that resonated (and still does) with disaffected viewers, notably John Hinckley Jr, a fan of Foster’s who shot at Reagan in 1981.

He missed his target. Scorsese and co do not.

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