Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man PG-13

A documentary on the legendary singer-songwriter, with performances by those musicians he has influenced.
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  • Rated: PG-13
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 14, 2006
  • Originally Released: 2005
  • Label: Lions Gate

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Rating: B+ -- I'm Your Man may be as close as we'll ever get to Cohen on film.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
Jul 28, 2006
3 stars out of 5 -- [A] marvelous blend of documentary and concert film....The film cuts in interviews with Cohen interpreting his songs and telling of adventures that took him from New York clubs to a Zen monastery...
Rolling Stone
Jul 13, 2006
Rating: 3/4 -- I'm Your Man never quite gets its man in a coherent frame, but for all its zigs and zags outside the lines, the portrait of Cohen that emerges is a fascinating one.
San Jose Mercury News
Jul 20, 2006
The concert is mixed with interviews with the 71-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter, and he's a charmingly self-deprecating raconteur.
Entertainment Weekly
Jun 30, 2006
Rating: 3/5 -- It's not a deep documentary. We learn precious little about the real man underneath his sharp-dressed pose.
Orlando Sentinel
Oct 27, 2006
Rating: 2/5 -- Hit and miss tribute to the great melancholist. Full Review
Empire Magazine
Dec 30, 2006
4 stars out of 5 -- It's a warm, touching portrait of a genius -- and long overdue.
Total Film
Jan 1, 2007

Product Description:

Leonard Cohen manages to garner fans from the unlikeliest of places despite his distinctly un-rock-&-roll appearance and a set of songs that veer closer to poetry than to their uneasy bedfellows in the pantheon of popular music. But viewers looking for an in-depth analysis of the man behind some of the most deeply introspective music ever recorded should look elsewhere: LEONARD COHEN: I'M YOUR MAN contains precious little insight from Cohen himself. Instead, director Lian Lunson has pieced together a warm tribute to the Canadian singer, drawing on the words of his many celebrity fans while also sharing generous amounts of footage from a Cohen tribute concert staged in 2005. The concert was filmed in Australia, with the bulk of the celebrity testimonials coming from performers at the show. The eclectic array of artists taking part include Nick Cave, Pulp's Jarvis Cocker, Martha and Rufus Wainwright, and folk legend Linda Thompson, all of whom perform unique interpretations of Cohen-penned classics such as "I'm Your Man" (Cave) and "Chelsea Hotel #2" (Rufus Wainwright). Lunson intersperses the concert footage with interviews from the stars, the most vocal and effusive praise coming from the Edge and Bono from U2, who are seen backing Cohen on a rendition of "Tower of Song" as the movie closes. Cohen himself is also given some screen time in which he muses on a number of interesting topics, but Lunson's piece is mostly designed as a straight tribute to a man who has never sat easily in the contemporary music world, much to the delight of his fans.

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  • UPC: 031398204343
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