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Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen on KNOWLEDGE NETWORK (HNP)
KNOWLEDGE NETWORK (HNP)
2010-03-31 at 23:00
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Ladies and Gentlemen...Mr. Leonard Cohen paints an informal portrait of the legendary Montreal poet, novelist and songwriter both onstage and off.
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- by John Feeney
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- by Donald Winkler
- 1990,
- 38 min 2 s
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- by Andy Thomson
- 1981,
- 25 min 15 s
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- by Donald Brittain
- 1964,
- 58 min 38 s
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- 1978,
- 57 min 10 s
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- 1964,
- 38 min 13 s
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- 38 min 13 s
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- 56 min 50 s
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- 58 min 17 s
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- 1973,
- 27 min 20 s
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Adam Symansky
A lot of Donald's work was salvage jobs for other people, and that's how he came to do this film. Don Owen shot the tour of the four poets, couldn't get it to work and Brittain came in and saw that the only thing that worked was the Leonard Cohen segments.
The most interesting thing is the exploration of documentary truth, where Cohen writes in the bathtub, caveat emptor, and then the two of them sit in the theatre and Don questions him about that scene. It's an interesting exchange. The whole film is basically the two of them saying, "Don't believe everything you see just because it's documentary."
They stayed friends all their life. Cohen was at Don's funeral in tears. They recognized each other as authentic human beings. The lived the lives they wanted to lead.
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