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A new documentary about Leonard Cohen’s most celebrated song, “Hallelujah,” lays out his spirituality – and hope.

How did Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" go from rejected album cut to pop-song classic? Our review of the new documentary that explains it all.

A Lou Reed archival series kicks off with 'Words & Music, May 1965' in August 2022.

In a new documentary, fans and experts explore the legacy of a song that was originally shunned before becoming a timeless classic

This month’s nonfiction picks include a reflection on a father, a immersive dive into the fishing industry and an alternative approach to the rock band biopic doc.

Leonard Cohen was deep in his career when he finally finished Hallelujah. Well, the first version of Hallelujah — there would be many, many versions when all was said and done. He’d toiled on the lyrics for seven years. Yet when he submitted the album, Various Positions, to his longtime record company Columbia Records in 1984, the company’s president Walter Yetnikoff decided not to release it in the US. What would become Cohen’s seminal anthem was dead on arrival. But in the new document...

In the new documentary "Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song," filmmakers Dayna Goldfine and Dan Gellar examine how despite the odds, the song managed

At the beginning of The Velvet Underground, the first documentary film by Todd Haynes, a title card appears: “A documentary film by Todd Haynes.” I laughed out loud when I saw it, though not out of derision. I had been waiting for Todd Haynes to make a documentary for a while.

The documentary “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song” tells the story of the infamous song and Cohen’s expansive musical career.

Richie Unterberger spoke with Rose Simpson about her time in The Incredible String Band and her book, Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden: A Girl’s Life in the Incredible String Band.