Ladies and gentlmen_Mr. Leonard Cohen pt1

[JoyDivisiongirl]

thanks so much for posting this! i cannot wait to watch it all.

[IDoNotBlameYou]

I've owned this for years. I love it. One of the things in this part that really showed that this was definitely "of its time"--1965--was the narrator saying, "He is not primarily a stand-up comic...."

[multical100]

Cohen is really tall, Hoffman is really short.

[GuildF40]

Leonard the Legend :o)

[farfadetdesbois]

He looks more like Al Pacino in the Godfather, don't you think?

[SquallPwnLife]

"can you do something about my body?"

even back then he was so much the man

[Attarraxxia]

I met him in Jean Mance park two years ago. It was my favourite moment.

[karolecampesine]

During the day I laugh, and during the night I sleep

[TheCrazypizza]

he is not primarily a stand up comic :)

joke or pathos, his language keeps burning brilliance

[brainpoptart]

A heartfelt thank you for posting this wonderful NFB documentary on Cohen. I wanted to see it for some time.

[Dykeborn]

OMG! Just saw Leonard Cohen in Oakland at the Paramount. Fantastic show. I had heard his singing voice, but never his speaking voice from the early days till now. He sounds not ulike Gene Wilder! The accent and inflections. Thanks for posting

[roddy99]

That's funny. I'd never thought of that. But yeah there's definitely some Gene Wilder there! funny

[XYZandTime]

I just want to see what people looked like in 1966.

[issyvoo2]

1964. That's when this was filmed. People looked the same. Their clothes and haircuts didn't.

[XYZandTime]

Well, it may be cliche to say it, but I think certain faces come in and out of prominence. My old high school had grad photos going back to the late 50s and certainly there were many people from that era and a little later who looked nothing like anyone I knew.

[FriedEggsandChips]

I just want to say thank you so much for these videos, they are some of the best on Youtube and I think the only truly great documentary on Leonard Cohen. Please do keep them up for all eternity!

[wytworny]

"he was doing this instead of college"

[weareallanemic]

I heart this man!

[coloardokid103]

saw him today still rules

[weareallanemic]

I saw him last monday, what a show! Sir Cohen's will alwasy be the troubadour of my heart. <3

[EuchridEucrow1]

I've seen only the first part of this movie and I can already tell it's ten times better than "I'm Your Man," namely because it's ABOUT Leonard Cohen. It isn't about Bono and half-a-dozen other jagg-offs torturing the man's words.

[smockinbarrels]

I thought the performances on I'm Your Man were wonderful. I grow weary of individuals like yourself who see variation as necessarily bad. Both documentaries are worth while.

[EuchridEucrow1]

I'm not talking about mere variations, smock (sorry but your name kind of invites it). I enjoy variations in live performances quite a bit, actually. However, no musician can match Leonard's own performances of his own material. The voice simply isn't there.

By-the-by, I really dug Nick Cave's 'I'm Your Man' and Jarvis Cocker's, 'I Can't Forget'. However, when I see 'Leonard Cohen' in the title of a documentary, I want it to be about LEONARD COHEN! Is that so wrong?

[quasarsphere]

Personally, for the most part, I prefer Cohen as a songwriter. I prefer hearing other peoples' covers of his songs to his own performances.

There are exceptions to this rule, though. "If It Be Your Will" is THE most beautiful song ever written, and NOBODY has ever done even a half-decent cover of it.

[EuchridEucrow1]

Oh and I'll mentioned one final perceived indignation: I deeply resent your implication that I'm somehow a philistne.

I'm deeply committed to progression in art. However, I also am able to distinguish between good innovation vs. bad innovation.

[GreatBonFire]

@EuchridEucrow1 Absolutely! But there's so many mediocre artist who are anxios to ride on the waves of this true poet! But as always they end up looking small next to the giant!!

[saintesavine]

@EuchridEucrow1 agreed!!!!!!

[bnojammymulligan]

Leonard Cohen will be playing Dublin 15th June. And Ireland has a standing army of 50,000 poets so he'll be in good company...looking forward to it

[gm0618]

What do you have to do to make your comment indent under the person you are answering?

[CiaranLiam]

Click reply and make the comment there.

[jayboytheplayboy]

Great to see Layton if only for a moment.

[OsvaldoPaese]

hahahaha, Leonard Cohen the comedian. Love the man.

[thegasworks]

Thank you so much for posting this.

[beattific89]

am I the only one who thinks that Cohen looks a little like Dustin Hoffman?

Am I wrong in saying that?

[tricyclesinskirts]

funny you should ask, i thought dustin hoffman looked so much like leonard cohen in the graduate!

[beattific89]

Yeah, I said the same thing, too! I watched "The Graduate" last year in my Jr. film analysis class, and I sorta yelled in my mind "Leonard Cohen!" LOL

I'm glad I'm not alone. . .

[klimkovsky]

@beattific89 No you are not the only one! He is practically his "look alike" :)

[GreatBonFire]

@beattific89 No... you're not wrong! in the 60's, sure!!

[JeffCharleson]

@beattific89 Dustin Hoffman looks like Leonard Cohen

[TheGreeeen]

@beattific89 i think that too^^.

[DangerousBastard]

@beattific89 No, not wrong! lol

[lunarpark35]

Cohen is awesome.  Notice how much in these younger years he resembles the young Dustin Hoffman?

[staubnadel]

had the some thought when I saw the graduated...

[1975leolion]

leonard, you mean so much

[Myrtone]

Wow and flutter can be heard whenever music is heard.

[Tasha6cat]

I always thought he was uniquely handsome, to bad he didn't feel the same.

[amcgeoch]

great, i was not even born when this was done. what a legend of 20thC culture.

[thetussler]

Wow! A truly excellent documentary from 1964.

Not just historically important but also very entertaining and remarkable fresh despite its age.

Thanks!

[1969inthesunshine]

i've been looking for this for years !! and i was checking youtube almost every day !! thank you so much !

[Unsettling]

Thank you for posting the film blacipad, though I think I still want to own it. Wonderful segment.