I'm Your Man

[Samsa]

A new documentary on Leonard Cohen - one of the great, but under appreciated, singer-songwrites of the twentieth century - will be opening on the 21st of this month:

http://www.leonardcohenimyourman.com/

He's not exactly from the Golden Era, but is anyone else planning on seeing the film? I'll be there, for sure; he's always been one of my favorites, right up there with Bob Dylan.

 

[magneto]

Swell!

Ooh, thanks; I didn't know about this. (At least, LC's one modern-ish person with a healthy debt to classic midcentury song writing/styling)
Wonder where my copy of "Beautiful Losers" is... (you'll never look at soap the same way again)...hope I'm remembering the right book

[And how funny, as I was rereading your message and noting the previously-skipped over Dylan comment, I heard "Mozambique" on the radio.]

 

[jake_fink]

Every once in a while a movie worth looking forward to comes along. Cohen is one of my heroes.

 

[artdecodame]

Hoorah, I love watching newer period films, sometimes just for the costumes!

 

[Samsa]

Just checking....

Well, now that the movie has been out for a while (and has since appeared on DVD), I'm curious to see how many of you have seen the film, and what you though of it?

 

[jake_fink]

There are no big surprises. It's good, especially (okay only) if you like Leonard Cohen.

This is stil the definitive Cohen film as far as I'm concerned:

 

[LizzieMaine]

We ran it for a week back in October, and it drew fairly well for the first few days, but then tapered off quite a bit toward the end. It's primarily a concert film bridged with interview segments in which Cohen comes across as a very very classy -- and witty -- gentleman. Well worth seeing.