Every year at Thanksgiving time, Steve tries to watch The Last Waltz, Martin Scorsese’s classic 1978 documentary about the final concert performed by the original incarnation of The Band. It’s his favorite Thanksgiving movie: Other films have used Thanksgiving as a backdrop, but The Last Waltz IS Thanksgiving.

This week, we invited another Last Waltz fan, the critic and poet Hanif Abdurraqib, to talk about the film and why it has extra significance at Thanksgiving. Turns out Hanif, a Muslim who didn’t grow up celebrating the holiday, has his own annual tradition tied up with The Last Waltz, after watching the film in college with other kids who were stranded in the dorm over the holidays. Join us as we dig into the minutia of one of the great rock films ever made!