Leonard Cohen - songwriter, poet, former monk, a womanizer, and a comfortable Sharp - is treated in the short hagiographic'm your man, part concert part documentary in which work is performed by a group of singers. Cohen tributes are nothing new, what with the famous Blue Raincoat Jennifer Warnes "and multi-artist compilations Tower of songs and I am your fans in front. However, the music producer Hal Willner, who traveled similar projects focused on Thelonious Monk, Kurt Weill, Harold Arlen and Charles Mingus, is especially adept at bringing together several lists of artists and unexpected, and he did it again here, matching superstars U2 with the likes of Nick Cave, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Kate sons Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Beth Orton, Antony Hegarty (of Antony and the Johnsons's group), Jarvis Cocker, among others. if it works or not depends, of course, the spectator's point of view.
Cohen is not their idea of a great singer, but certainly a mark of his deep oceans and insinuations slow down profundo is a guy who was the Zen monaco, certainly includes the virtues of patience, his lyrics, too, is on generis, but rarely mawkish staff, both regular and cryptic. To these ears, shows Orton ("Sisters of Mercy"), Teddy Thompson ("Tonight Will Be Fine"), and the Handsome Family with Linda Thompson ("A Thousand Kisses Deep") come mainly eat the spirit of Cohen was performing by only. On the other hand, are too polite stylings McGarrigles and Wainwrights have been acquired taste, at best, Rufus "Louche posing, affected vocal delivery, and, skin-tango-esque matching" Everybody Knows "almost overwhelm the song ( is much better, "Chelsea Hotel No. 2"), and Martha "traitor" has done much to improve.
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Please make sure you two die-hard fans of Cohen and the newly initiated, this film is full of captivating music and offers an intimate portrait of a truly unique artist, poet, songwriter, cultural icon.
Cohen appears in a single number ("Tower of Song" with U2), but the interview segments are scattered throughout director Lian Lunson is now in his seventies, seems to delight in perpetuating his own legend serving comments elusive as "I was living in the horror" and "Things are easier when I stopped expecting to win." Bonus material includes deleted scenes and more -. Sam Graham
Cohen is not their idea of a great singer, but certainly a mark of his deep oceans and insinuations slow down profundo is a guy who was the Zen monaco, certainly includes the virtues of patience, his lyrics, too, is on generis, but rarely mawkish staff, both regular and cryptic. To these ears, shows Orton ("Sisters of Mercy"), Teddy Thompson ("Tonight Will Be Fine"), and the Handsome Family with Linda Thompson ("A Thousand Kisses Deep") come mainly eat the spirit of Cohen was performing by only. On the other hand, are too polite stylings McGarrigles and Wainwrights have been acquired taste, at best, Rufus "Louche posing, affected vocal delivery, and, skin-tango-esque matching" Everybody Knows "almost overwhelm the song ( is much better, "Chelsea Hotel No. 2"), and Martha "traitor" has done much to improve.
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Please make sure you two die-hard fans of Cohen and the newly initiated, this film is full of captivating music and offers an intimate portrait of a truly unique artist, poet, songwriter, cultural icon.
Cohen appears in a single number ("Tower of Song" with U2), but the interview segments are scattered throughout director Lian Lunson is now in his seventies, seems to delight in perpetuating his own legend serving comments elusive as "I was living in the horror" and "Things are easier when I stopped expecting to win." Bonus material includes deleted scenes and more -. Sam Graham
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