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Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man (DVD)
Directed by Lian Lunson
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Says one blogger: "If you're at all a Cohen fan, you've got to see "I'm Your Man." Directed by Australia's Lian Lunson ("Willie Nelson Down Home") and built around the 2005 "Came So Far for Beauty" tribute concert at the Sydney Opera House, the movie features both stirring and quizzical performances. But it's fortified with excerpts from a biographical interview with Cohen, as well as testimonials from many of the performers as to his genius."

If you're too young to know about the enigmatic, poetic, mysterious Leonard Cohen, you will either enjoy this fascinating music documentary introduction into the landscapre of Cohen or be perplexed by it. It's like a fine perfume or cologne, you are either seduced by the scent or indifferent to it.

We personally find Cohen the rarest of combinations -- a poet and musician. Like Dylan, his voice wouldn't probably make the choir, but both of them move you in a way that masters the power of music.

While Dylan is best known for his cerebral and political poems, Cohen is the balladeer of the penumbra world of love, loss, mysteries of faith, doubt, and romance. Cohen elevates the details of emotion into lyrical art form.

He was born Jewish in Montreal, wrote fiction, then turned to music. His latest passion has been Zen Buddhism.

Cohen never went the route of the celebrity. He is much too profound, and has, for his 72 years, been on a personal journey that spurns such attention.

So, it is a privilege to see a film about him that allows you to get some sense of the man, even if he remains endlessly elusive, perhaps, he would admit, even to himself.

All but one of the performances are by musicians paying tribute to Cohen.

Appropriately, Cohen's turn to sing comes in a collaboration with a band of worshipful admirers, U2.

For us, Cohen reaches down to parts of our soul that we didn't know were there. But we understand that some people might just find him fey.
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Leonard Cohen is widely regarded as one of the finest and most influential poets and songwriters of his generation, a writer whose artful m�lange of love, eros, and despair has earned him a passionate international following and the respect and admiration of artists ranging from R.E.M. to Johnny Cash. In 2005, music producer Hal Wilner staged an all-star tribute concert in Australia in which a handful of major artists offered their interpretations of Cohen's songs, including Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, Rufus Wainwright, Beth Orton, Kate and Anna Mcgarrigle, and many more. Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man includes highlights from this concert and thoughts on Cohen and his work from the participants as well as an extensive interview with Leonard Cohen himself as he talks in detail about his life and his art. The film also includes a special performance of "Tower of Song," in which Cohen is accompanied by U2.

Mark Deming of "All Movie Guide"
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"A wonderful portrait"

-- New York Times

"Comes down from the moutaintop with the tablets of stone."

-- U2

"This is one of the greatest music films of all time."

-- Wim Wenders
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Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Lions Gate
DVD Release Date: November 14, 2006
Run Time: 103 minutes
DVD Features:
Available Subtitles: English, Spanish
Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
Commentary by director Lian Lunson
A Conversation with Leonard Cohen
Never-Before-Seen musical performances
ASIN: B000I2J62I
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