![]() 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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