While you wait for the film to debut, you can watch the trailer here. In "Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song" (opening in theaters Friday, July 8), the Emmy-winning co-directors, who are married and live near Alamo Square, trace the unlikely artistic journey of the legendary singer-songwriter's most enduring and widely covered song.īy doing so, their film, which is engaging even for those with only a casual interest in the Canadian troubadour, also becomes a moving portrait of the poet turned musician who was on a lifelong quest to square his spiritual hunger (Cohen spent half a decade living in a Zen monastery) with his secular and sexual longings for connection. When we find ourselves in desolation, we ask: How can we stay alive when we have kissed death Is faith still possible Has love lost its savor and. At a time when pop singers can dash off a song on their phone, post it online and achieve overnight success, it's astounding to watch Leonard Cohen scribble and revise the lyrics to his famous song "Hallelujah" in notebooks over the course of more than five years in a new documentary by San Francisco filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine. It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah. The deal the terms of which were not announced includes all 278 songs that Cohen wrote, including his oft-covered Hallelujah, Suzanne, So Long, Marianne, First We Take Manhattan and.
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