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HALLELUJAH: LEONARD COHEN, A JOURNEY, A SONG – Review by Martha K Baker

July 27, 2022July 31, 2022 Martha K. Baker Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine, Hallelujah, judy collins, leonard cohen

Leonard Cohen put his imprimateur on this documentary just before his 80th birthday. The film includes archival material never before seen — from notebooks, photographs, performances, and interviews. The film begins in December 2013 at his final concert with his bass voice vibrating, his body virile in genuflection. The directors, partners Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine, plaited three strands of the story: Cohen journeying through the Sixties to his final concert in 2013.

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MARIANNE AND LEONARD: WORDS OF LOVE – Review by Martha K. Baker

July 21, 2019July 21, 2019 Martha K. Baker 0 Comments documentary, judy collins, leonard cohen, marianne ihlen, nick broomfield

Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love pokes into an affair of the heart. Loving Leonard Cohen means accepting him. This documentary does not gloss over the aspects of the poet’s life that are unsavory — drugs, acid, womanizing. It presents his depressions and digressions, his depths and heights. It does not make an idol of him.