![]() ![]() ![]() Yesterday and today, Leonard Cohen is the picture of class - but it’s class with feeling.Lian Lunson’s “Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man” is partly an interview documentary and partly a record of a Cohen tribute performance, organized by the ever-inventive producer Hal Willner, at the Sydney Opera House in 2005. And his voice has developed a glorious depth and texture over the years, like the patina on an antique watch chain. The pinpoint-precise imagery of his poetry is part of what makes it so alive. There has never been anything scruffy, literally or figuratively, about Cohen. There was a time when every worthy record collection (and I mean record collection) included a copy of Cohen’s 1967 debut, “Songs of Leonard Cohen,” whose cover featured a sepia portrait of the man himself: This somber visage - gazing straight into the camera, straight at us - might have come directly from the Old West, except most people in the Old West never looked this impeccably groomed and elegant. "It’s probably impossible to make the perfect documentary about Leonard Cohen, a poet, songwriter and performer about whom most people - of a certain age and temperament, at least - have ardent feelings. ![]()
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