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A new documentary on Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ details the slow birth of a hit song.
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A new documentary on Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ details the slow birth of a hit song.
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
Cohen is painted as a man bent on two things: God and not repeating himself. The film’s strength is its use of archival footage to attest to this lonely and difficult urgency for ever-new forms of holiness.
Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s documentary examines the singer-songwriter's creative process and spiritual search
From the blog of Sheldon Kirshner at The Times of Israel