Via The Believer, the extraordinary 1965 documentary Ladies and Gentlemen… Mr. Leonard Cohen by Donald Brittain and Don Owen, available to watch in full on the NFB of Canada website. An “informal black-and-white portrait of Leonard Cohen shows him at age thirty on a visit to his hometown of Montreal, where the poet, novelist, and songwriter comes ‘to renew his neurotic affiliations.’” Forty-four minutes well-spent.
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I have now spent a grand total of 18 weeks combing through Norman Bel Geddes’s vast collection of papers, housed at the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin. It’s probably fair to ...
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