A ubiquitous influence even as he remains elusively elsewhere Leonard Cohen is back. ... more
Woven through a riveting tribute is a career-spanning interview with the man himself. Sprinkled with his own artwork and personal photos Cohen speaks of his stately ...
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Advantages: Great songs, production, lyrics Disadvantages: If you don't like Leonard's voice this won't convert you
We've seen so many times that artists and songwriters who have great success throughout the 60's and the 70's often have a horrendous 80's as they try to keep up with the times. The songwriting becomes bland and the need for synthesisers means that the songs become so electronically ladened that the production becomes the focus over the songs themselves. It fills me with great pleasure to say that in the case of LeonardCohen and 'I'mYourMan' this is most certainly not the case. It could be argued that prior to this Len was having a creative crisis. The mid 70's and early 80's were just about fair to him but albums were patchy compared to his 60's output and by his own high standards. Just when we thought Len's time was up, he brought us this curious powerhouse.
The scene is set with the opening track 'First We Take Manhattan ...
Advantages: I've run out of superlatives Disadvantages: None, nyet, nada
, Cohen's old friend Jennifer Warnes helps out on vocals as well. The final verse is typical Cohen bringing together the profane and profound, needing no excuse for his love because "it's written in the scriptures.
The third song is a more socially aware critique. "Everybody Knows" deals with the AIDS epidemic - then at its shocking early height - and wealth/poverty as well as with personal issues. For Cohen the personal and the political have always mingled. The line:
"everybody knows you've been discreet
But there were so many people you just had to meet
without your clothes
and everybody knows"
alone makes it worth buying this!
So to the title track. "I'mYourMan" is a career-defining moment of, a mission statement of someone who has always been scathingly honest with and about himself. The chorus is a sincere yet amusing ...
OPINION
I first heard of LeonardCohen at a friends house as a record, the song was "Suzanne" and I loved it. I remembered the name and to my delight I found his CD in the Woolworths price crunch a while back now. His songs are so calming but have lyrics that explore ideas of religion, isolation, sexuality and complex interpersonal relationships, so as calm as they seem their underlying provocations are deeply moving.
ARTIST
LeonardCohen is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. His earliest songs are rooted in European folk music, his 1970's music encompasses pop, chaberet and world music and since the 1980's his high baritone voice took on more low registers, often accompanied by electronic synthesizers and female backing singers. His writing has influenced lots of singer-songwriters and more than ...
Documentaries & Biographies - Entertainment Documentary
Classification
Parental Guidance
Production Year
2006
Running Time
1 hour 39 minutes
Video Category
Feature Film
Plot
LEONARD COHEN – I’M YOUR MAN is a warm tribute to the introspective Canadian singer, drawing on the words of his many celebrity fans while also sharing generous amounts of footage from a Cohen tribute concert staged in 2005.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
LIONS GATE HOME ENTERTAINMENT; ELEVATION SALES; TECHNICOLOR DISTRIBUTION SERVICES
Release date
19/03/2007
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
9389601000
Barcode
5060052412218
Featured
Nick Cave, Bono, Jarvis Cocker, Leonard Cohen, The Edge, Kate McGarrigle, Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright, Linda Thompson
Additional songs, A conversation with Leonard Cohen, Teddy Thompson rehearsal footage
Aspect Ratio
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital
DVD Description
Leonard Cohen manages to garner fans from the unlikeliest of places despite his distinctly un-rock-&-roll appearance and a set of songs that veer closer to poetry than to their uneasy bedfellows in the pantheon of popular music. But viewers looking for an in-depth analysis of the man behind some of the most deeply introspective music ever recorded should look elsewhere: LEONARD COHEN - I'M YOUR MAN contains precious little insight from Cohen himself. Instead, director Lian Lunson has pieced together a warm tribute to the Canadian singer, drawing on the words of his many celebrity fans while also sharing generous amounts of footage from a Cohen tribute concert staged in 2005. The concert was filmed in Australia, with the bulk of the celebrity testimonials coming from performers at the show. The eclectic array of artists taking part include Nick Cave, Pulp's Jarvis Cocker, Martha and Rufus Wainwright, and folk legend Linda Thompson, all of whom perform unique interpretations of Cohen-penned classics such as ‘I'm Your Man’ (Cave) and ‘Chelsea Hotel #2’ (Rufus Wainwright). Lunson intersperses the concert footage with interviews from the stars, the most vocal and effusive praise coming from U2’s The Edge and Bono, who are seen backing Cohen on a rendition of ‘Tower of Song’ as the movie closes. Cohen himself is also given some screen time in which he muses on a number of interesting topics, but Lunson's piece is mostly designed as a straight tribute to a man who has never sat easily in the contemporary music world, much to the delight of his fans.
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