Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man
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Actor: Bono, Hal Willner, Leonard Cohen, Rennie Sparks, Rufus WainwrightBrand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Lions Gate
DVD Reviews of Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man
DVD Review: Not quite the real thing, but good enough
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm officially into another Leonard Cohen phase, which happens once in a while. In leading up to seeing Leonard Cohen at Coachella (more on that later), I replayed the several albums I have of his, and also watched this DVD, a concert tribute from 2005.
"Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man" (104 min.) brings the highlights of the tribute concert, intermixed with various interviews, primarily from the Edge and Bono, but more importantly from Leonard himself. As nice a job as the various tribute concert participants did (including Rufus Wrainright on several songs, such as "Hallelujah", which he has performed many times over the years, and quite well), when you hear the songs, all it makes me wanna do is grab the original Cohen tunes. Leonard Cohen's interviews are the real meat here, including among others his reading of an introduction he recently wrote for an old book of his that was now being translated into Mandarin for the Chinese market, but also his musings on how the "Suzanna" song came about, just mesmorizing. The last track is Leonard performing "Tower of Song" accompanied by U2, quite nice.
So I saw Leonard Cohen's set at this past weekend's Coachella music festival, my first time seeing him in concert, and what a delight it was, almost an honor really. He was his humble self, several times saying "Thank you, my friends". No, thank YOU, Mr. Cohen. If you have a chance to catch him on what could possibly his last tour ever (the man is 75 yrs. old, after all), DO NOT MISS IT.
DVD Review: He's Our Man
Summary: 3 Stars
Fine; as long as it's clear that this is not Leonard Cohen; it's ABOUT Leonard Cohen. This is, I find, mentioned in the Amazon product information, but it's not made clear on the packaging. I believe that most of what works for Leonard Cohen is lost in innovative renditions of his work, but if you want to see some LC family-photos and lots of nifty people doing his songs and saying extremely nice things about him, this DVD might rate five stars from you. Personally, one actual LC performance would do more for me than this whole 'movie.' After a few slow, sentimental minutes, I cued through quickly and didn't notice one.DVD Review: Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man
Summary: 2 Stars
the movie was not what I thought it would be!!!. Not much of Cohen imself at all.DVD Review: Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man.
Summary: 5 Stars
I received my copy of this DVD a few days ago and have already viewed it about ten times. The music is just so good, the information about Leonard Cohen himself is very useful and to feel part of the Sydney Opera House Concert was exciting. Thoroughly enjoyable.DVD Review: Outstanding
Summary: 5 Stars
The master talks about life, music, and Zen, but the music says it best. Hallelujah is awesome.
Description of Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man
Sure to please both die-hard Cohen fans and the newly initiated, this film is full of captivating music and offers an intimate portrait of a truly singular artist, poet, songwriter, cultural icon.Leonard Cohen--songwriter, poet, former monk, ladies man, and sharp dresser--receives a near-hagiographical treatment in I'm Your Man, a part concert-part documentary in which his work is interpreted by an array of singers. Cohen tributes are nothing new, what with Jennifer Warnes' Famous Blue Raincoat and the multi-artist compilations Tower of Song and I'm Your Fan having preceded this one. But music producer Hal Willner, who has spearheaded similar projects focusing on Thelonious Monk, Kurt Weill, Harold Arlen, and Charles Mingus, is especially skilled at putting together rosters of diverse and unexpected artists, and he's done it again here, matching superstars U2 with the likes of Nick Cave, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Kate's offspring Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Beth Orton, Antony Hegarty (of the group Antony and the Johnsons), Jarvis Cocker, and others. Whether all of this works or not will naturally depend on the viewer's point of view. Cohen is no one's idea of a great singer, but he's certainly a distinctive one, with his ocean-deep basso profundo and the slow insinuations of a guy who, having been a Zen monk, certainly understands the virtues of patience; his lyrics, too, are sui generis, personal but rarely mawkish, at once plain and cryptic. To these ears, performances by Orton ("Sisters of Mercy"), Teddy Thompson ("Tonight Will Be Fine"), and the Handsome Family with Linda Thompson ("A Thousand Kisses Deep") come closest to capturing Cohen's spirit without actually impersonating him. On the other hand, the overly mannered stylings of the McGarrigles and Wainwrights are an acquired taste, at best; Rufus' louche posing, affected vocal delivery, and cute, tango-esque arrangement of "Everybody Knows" pretty much overwhelm the song (he's much better on "Chelsea Hotel No. 2"), and Martha's "The Traitor" is scant improvement. Cohen himself appears on just one number ("Tower of Song," with U2), but interview segments are scattered throughout director Lian Lunson's film; now in his seventies, he seems to delight in perpetuating his own legend, serving up elusive comments like "I was alive in the horror" and "Things got easier when I stopped expecting to win." Bonus material includes deleted scenes and more. --Sam Graham
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