Jeff Buckley once said that his version of the Leonard Cohen classic, 'Hallelujah', was about more simple pleasures, ...

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 ...

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No song exists strictly within the milieu that the songwriter imagined for it. The magic of music is in the silent, but very real, interaction between the artist and the audience members, who are free ...

Leonard Cohen’s signature song, “Hallelujah,” had its journey to music immortality stopped almost at birth by a record executive. The chief of Cohen’s label, Columbia, vetoed the finished album ...

A new documentary tells the entwined stories of a songwriter and his best-known composition. By A.O. Scott When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an ...