To paraphrase a saying attributed to Buddha, when the student is ready, the Leonard Cohen song will appear. Philosopher king and ladies’ man, poet and ordained Buddhist monk, aesthete and pilgrim — in ...

For music nerds of sufficient intensity, there’s not much on this earth as fun as getting obsessed with a particular song. I recently spent an entire weekend digging into the Beatles’ B-side classic ...

It’s not exactly a hit parade, the songs that have been turned into movies. There was the shambling reconstruction of Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant,” the fizzy pop of “Earth Girls Are Easy,” the ...

Many people write love songs that take place when the bliss of a relationship is at its peak. And many more write love-gone-wrong songs from the perspective of someone ruing the departure of someone ...

In the canon of great songwriters, few names loom as large as Leonard Cohen. The Canadian singer-songwriter pursued a career as a poet before pivoting to music later in life, and that sensibility ...

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This review of “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song” first appeared when the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2021. Like the blind men of lore groping to understand an elephant ...

A version of this story about “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song” first appeared in the Guilds & Critics Awards / Documentaries issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. The title of Dan Geller ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook A cult-favorite poet from Quebec who wrote the most ubiquitous song of his generation, who didn’t ...

Recognized as one of the greatest songwriters and lyricists of all time, Leonard Cohen was born in Westmount, Quebec, on September 21, 1934. Known particularly for his song, “Hallelujah”, Cohen sang ...

Leonard Cohen was a struggling poet and author living on the Greek Island of Hydra in 1960 when he first met Marianne Ihlen, the ex-wife of Norwegian author Axel Jensen. Their whirlwind romance ...