Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song
[Opens July 29 in theaters.] Nostalgic, memorable music highlights Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller's entertaining, informative, in-depth, insightful, 117-minute, 2021 documentary that examines the legendary, illustrious career of talented singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen through his unforgettable song , five chapters, including 1) The Birth of a Songwriter, 2) The Holy and the Broken, 3) The Secret Chord, 4) The Minor Fall, the Major Lift, and 5) Epilogue, and consists of archival photographs and film clips, concert footage, journal and notebook excerpts, Larry ‘Ratso' Sloman's interview snippets with Cohen, and commentary by singers and songwriters (such as Judy Collins, Eric Church, Sharon Robinson, Brandi Carlile, John Cale, Glen Hansard, Bob Dylan, Rufus Wainwright, Jeff Scott Buckley, Amanda Palmer, Regina Spektor, and Joan Wasser), producer and Columbia Records Talent Acquisition director John Hammond, journalist and author Adrienne Clarkson, Columbia's Records president Clive Davis, arranger and producer John Lissauer, editor and lifelong friend Nancy Bacal, Rabbi Dr. Mordecai Finley, Cohen's Zen master Kyozan Joshu Sasaki Roshi, artist and Cohen's mother Suzanne Elrod, photographer Dominique Issermann, former managers Marty Machat and Walter Yetnikoff, On the Road with Bob Dylan author Larry ‘Ratso' Sloman, music producer Hal Willner, Shrek co-director Vicky Jenson, Arts at St. Ann's artistic director Susan Feldman, Arts at St. Ann's program director Janine Dreyer Nichols, Sin-'e Cafe owner Shane Doyle, singer Myles Kennedy, and Columbia Records A&R executive Steve Berkowitz.
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