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Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man

58.104.185.185

dave c

Recorded at the Sydney concert organised by Hal Wilner in 2005 as part of the Sydney Festival, this film features the MacGarrigles and Wainwrights, The Handsome Family with Linda Thompson, (is it Richard and Linda's son) Teddy Thompson, Antony, Nick Cave and near the end an astonishing performance that for my money steals the show and I'm not going to tell you who by.
The house band are very good and includes Chris Spedding.
There are also some incongruous interviews with U2 which comes round at the end to make sense.
I hate U2.
Intercut is a series a interviews with LC explaining his work and also others about what he means to them. These range from the good to the not so good.
Hal Wilner looks extraordinarily like Jerry Garcia after a trip to the barber.
A must for Cohen fans and a good way into his music for outsiders I think.

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RE: Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man - kSpace 21:21:56 06/14/07 (1)
My wife and I were really floored by this film. Rufus was in top form. Antony, in "If It Be Thy Will", sang a stunningly powerful performance that left us speechless. Who is this guy?

Bob
- Antony - dave c 23:23:26 06/15/07 (0)
  As you might guess from seeing him, Antony is a gay guy with possible trans-gender issues, but the voice of Nina Simone (in my opinion).
  Get his album and you will not be disappointed. But it is serious adult stuff dealing with serious issues. Hear it to know what I am talking about.
  The first time he was really heard of over here was when he was singing back up for Lou Reed and got to sing lead on a song or two. THen the Cohen concert and a tour of his own. The album got a reasonable amount of airplay here.
  I saw him early last year when my girlfriend of the time threatened to wear a see through dress with just a g-string under it (and she looked sensational like that!!!) but with a pair of socks stuffed down them so she looked like my trannie lover... strange sense of humour that girl!
  HE was great but a little single paced and will need to step up a second time around. But then he was an unknown quantity so there may not have been enough money for a bigger band. If I remember it was Antony on the piano, an acoustic guitarist and a cello player... maybe a drummer, but it lacked the variety and oomph of some of the album tracks.
  BUt get the album and you will love it.
RE: Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man - plantsman 03:20:39 06/08/07 (0)
I'm a Leonard Cohen fan but I was a little disappointed with the concert/film. I liked many of Hal Wilner's prior projects but I thought this one was weak. Too many of the performers have excessively mannered styles that I thought undercut the material. If I had produced it I would have gone primarily to gospel and R&B singers. I would also be interested to hear Neko Case's take on some of Leonard Cohen's songs.

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