Compiled by Jarkko Arjatsalocontributed by Dick Straub, Kelley Lynch, Adrian Martin, Michael Meyer, Ben Benaziza,
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McCabe and Mrs. MillerUSA 1971 |
The stranger song Sisters of mercy Winter lady |
A drama/Western directed by Robert Altman, starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie. A grim and dirty slice of bleak frontier life rendered with extraordinary beauty. John McCabe, an ambitious small-timer opens a bordello in turn-of-the-century boom town. Several versions of Cohen’s three songs are used (both original and instrumental). 121 min. More about this film |
Beware of a Holy Whore
Germany 1971 |
Master Song Sisters of Mercy So Long, Marianne Suzanne |
A film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. An honest account of the world of filmmaking from Fassbinder centered around the relationships of a German film crew staying at a Spanish seaside hotel, awaiting the arrival of the temperamental director. Starring Lou Castel, Eddie Constantine and Hanna Schyguila. Music by Leonard Cohen etc. 103 min. |
Fata MorganaGermany 1971 |
Suzanne So long, Marianne Hey, that's no way to say goodbye |
An avantgarde/experimental film by Werner Herzog.
Fata Morgana,refers to mirages, an apt title for this storyless, hallucinatory work shot in the Sahara deserts of North Africa. It is a rhythmic, musical succession of images and short scenes.
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Last movieUSA 1971 |
which song? |
The director Dennis Hopper concocts a hallucinatory acid-trip concerning an American movie company making a western in a remote mountain village in Peru.
The Peruvians decide that they want to make their own movie. Not having the necessary film equipment, but plenty of local raw material, the villagers construct the needed cameras, microphones, and sound recorders out of bamboo, and although the equipment is faked, the villagers substitute real,
bloody violence for the make-believe violence of Hollywood.
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The Second Coming of SuzanneUSA 1973 | Suzanne (thrice!) |
This film was produced in 1973 by Suzanne Company and was shot in San Francisco and Sausalito. Written and directed by Michael Barry, produced by Ralph Burris and Gene Barry. Music by Don Caverhill. Starring Sondra Locke, Paul Sand, Jared Martin, Richard Dreyfuss and Gene Barry. Timing 1:22.
Young actress encounters a hypnotic film director. Her role: to star in a crucifixion--which may be more real than she imagines. Winner of two international film festivals. Cohen's original version of Suzanne is twice on the soundtrack (during the first scenes and also during the last ones, when Suzanne IS crucified). Also another version of Suzanne by an unidentified female artist is heard.
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Fox and His Friends
Germany 1975
| Bird on a wire (twice) |
A film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film is protagonized by Fassbinder himself in the role of Frank Biberkopf nickmaked Fox. |
Like a bird on a wire
Germany 1975
| Bird on a wire |
A 44 min TV film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. |
A WeddingUSA 1978 | Bird on a wire |
Drama directed by Robert Altman.
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Renaldo and ClaraUSA 1978 |
Suzanne (Joan Baez) |
four hour epic from Bob Dylan.
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Der Alte
Germany 1978
| Suzanne (twice) |
Suzanne was played (at least) twice in one 1978 episode of the very successful whodunit-series Der Alte, with Siegfried Lowitz, Bernd Herzsprung. The episode was called Der Spieler.
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
Germany 1980
| Chelsea Hotel # 2 |
In 1980 Rainer Werner Fassbinder directed the TV series “Berlin Alexanderplatz” based on the novel of the same title by Alfred Dublin. The soundtrack of the last episode (13 + 1, 93 minutes) included Cohen, Janis Joplin (Me and Bobby McGee), and Donovan (Atlantis). The leading roles are: Gunter Lamprecht (as Frank Biberkopf), Gottfried John, Hanna Schygulla, and Barbara Sukowa.
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Other tonguesCanada 1984 | which song(s)? |
The filmmaker points a voyeuristic camera into the lives of four people trying to decide who they are and what they want. Musical score by Zone Jaune and Leonard Cohen. Directed by Derek May. Starring Peter Bierman, Linda Lee Tracey. National Film Board of Canada, 57 min.
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Adjo solidaritetNorway 1985 | Bird on the wire |
A self-ironic story of a psychiatrist and his friend, a theatre critic, members of the first big after-war generation; they lived
their most important years of youth between 1965 and 1975, years of economic boom and
security. Directed by Petter Vennerod and Svend Wam.
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Grandeur et décadenceFrance 1986 | The Guests |
"Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma" (English title: "Rise and Fall of a Little Film Company"), 1986, 90 minutes, is a video film by Godard. The principle actors are Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Marie Valéra and J.-L. Godard himself. It's made from a thriller by James Hadley Chase. It's a film about the difficulties of making a film. The subject is only a pretext that allows Godard to express himself about cinema as an art and also a relationship between creativity and money.
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Puissances de la paroleFrance 1988 | Take this waltz |
A short film by Jean-Luc Godard's (25 min)
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Les matins infidèlesCanada 1988 | Suzanne |
A feature film by Jean Beaudry et François Bouvier,
produced in 1988 by Les Productions du Lundi Matin, Montréal.
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Love at largeUSA 1990 | Ain’t no cure for love |
A romantic comedy about two rival detectives, male and female. Directed by Alan Rudolph, starring Tom Berenger, Anne Archer, Kate Capshaw and Elizabeth Perkins - and even Neil Young. 97 minutes.
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Pump up the volumeUSA 1990 |
Everybody knows If it be your will Everybody knows (Concrete Blonde) |
A drama directed by Allan Moyle, starring Christian Slater, Ellen Greene and Samantha Mathis. 100 min. Hard Harry, an embittered and angst-ridden teenager,
is a school-kid by day and the operator of a pirate radio station by night. One snippet of "If it be your will" and three snippets of "Everybody knows" are heard. On the soundtrack album there is only Concrete Blonde’s version of Everybody knows. A snippet of the Concrete Blonde version appears when the police chase Slater's jeep.
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Bird on a wireUSA 1990 |
Bird on a wire
(The Neville Brothers) |
A romantic comedy directed by John Badham. Starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn. Murderers force Gibson - who has been hiding in the FBI witness relocating program - and his onetime sweetheart (Hawn) to take it on the lam. 110 min.
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Ha chayim alpy Agfa
Israel 1992
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If it be your will First we take Manhattan Chelsea Hotel # 2 Dance me to the end of love Take this waltz Who by fire |
Drama, directed by Assi Dayan, music by Naftali Alter. Black & white, 90 min. A sad and violent film about youngsters around a bar in Tel Aviv,
a story about their lives, hopes, hates and relations to each other - and the Israeli people in general.
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Caro diario
Italy 1993
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I'm your man |
A film directed by Nanni Moretti. Story of a hot summer in Rome. Cohen's song is playing while Moretti is riding a scooter through Rome.
Awarded for the best scenario at the Festival de Cannes. 100 min.
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Both sides of the wire
Canada 1993
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Who by fire |
This documentary, directed by Neal Livingston, focuses on a group of German and Austrian refugees who were deported from Britain in the summer of 1940 and sent to a Canadian prison camp. These civilian refugees, most of them Jews, were ironically labeled as "dangerous enemy aliens" by the Canadian government, which has since grudgingly acknowledged that the internment was unnecessary. This documentary (based on a book by Ted Jones) reunites the prisoners of war fifty years after their ordeal, detailing the political circumstances which led to their imprisonment, recalling the atmosphere of the camp, and exploring the effect the experience had on their lives. Both Sides of the Wire is Black River's most ambitious film. 60 min.
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L'Eau froide
France 1994
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Avalanche |
An extraordinary French movie by Olivier Assayas about teenagers, made for the same series of autobiographical films as Akerman's (see Portrait -
1995 below).
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ExoticaCanada 1994 |
Everybody knows (twice) |
Exotica is a strange, compelling movie from Canadian writer/director Atom Egoyan. Bruce Greenwood is a tax adjuster who links a gay pet-shop owner, a baby sitter, and the gentleman's club - Exotica. Mia Kirshner is a beautiful dancer in the club, Egoyan's wife plays the club owner, and Elias Koteas gives a powerful perfomance as a cynical master of ceremonies (strip show barker), past Mia lover, and jealous foil to Greenwood.
Cohen's "Everybody Knows" makes a fittingly sensual, sardonic accompaniment to a lap dance fairly early on. Rest of soundtrack is also engaging. The movie won a "Genie" award as Canada's best film of 1994, and Egoyan also received accolades at Cannes. 104 min
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When night is fallingCanada 1994 |
Hallelujah (Instrumental) |
The third feature from Patricia Rozema (best know for "I've heard the mermaids singing"), is a lushy atmospheric if oppressively symbolic account of Camille's death and rebirth as a sexual (lesbian) being. Music by various artists, including the instrumental version of "Hallelujah" at the end of the film.
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Natural born killersUSA 1994 |
Waiting for the miracle The anthem The future |
A violent drama, directed by Oliver Stone, script by Quentin Tarantino, starring Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis. A hedonistic couple murders more than fifty people on their bloody honeymoon. 119 min
Waiting for the miracle and The Future are on the soundtrack CD. Read an analysis of the movie. |
Homicide: Life on the Street
USA 1995
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Suzanne
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In episode #40 "Heartbeat" of this TV series, detective Munch comes home and switches on his stereo system. Some upbeat jazz comes on, and he quickly changes to "Suzanne" by Cohen. The song then runs through the first verse.
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Le peril jeuneFrance 1995 |
Suzanne
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Cédric Klapisch, one of the rising stars of the new French generation of directors, offers a brilliant, devastatingly funny depiction of the young French people in the 1970s.
Old schoolmates Bruno, Momo, Alain and Léon reunite after a few years' separation at a hospital, where Sophie, the girlfriend of their friend Tomas, who died a week earlier of an overdose, is about to give birth.
In turn, they recall the last year in high school: the burning crushes, the demonstrations, the fancies; the tensions between the parents, the teachers, and the young; and the excitement before the finals.
The film won the first price at the Festival d'Humour de Chamrousse in 1994.
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Portrait of a young girl in Brussels at the end of the 60'sFrance 1995 |
Suzanne
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Chantal Akerman's beautiful autobiography has a key scene in which two teenagers dance to the entirety of "Suzanne"
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Strange DaysUSA 1995 |
Dance me to the end of love
(Kate Gibson) |
A paranoid, future-shock action-fantasy-melodrama directed by Kathryn Bigelow, and stars Ralph Fiennes, Julliette Lewis, Angela Bassett, and Tom Sizemore. It is set in LA at New Years - 2000. Fiennes plays Lenny (believe it or not) an ex-cop black marketeer dealing in illegal virtual reality disks -- "like tv only better...straight from the cereberal cortex." Murder, violence, sex -- all without leaving your chair.
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Breaking the wavesDenmark 1996 |
Suzanne
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This is a praised Danish film in the English language, directed by Lars von Trier, a Dane, and filmed in Scotland. It's a story about a simple-minded, religious woman, who falls in love with an oil worker. She is ready to do anything for him, just anything. Starring Emily Watson and Stellan Skarsgard. 2:40.
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SuzanneThe Slovak Republic 1996 |
Suzanne (?)
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According to a Slovak TV interview with the director Dusan Rapos, this Slovak-Czech coproduction was inspired by Cohen's song (possibly the original or Juraj Kukura's version
is also on the soundtrack?) It's a story about a young girl falling in love with an artist who has shown her the
way to drugs. Starring Eva Vejmelkova.
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Chronicle of a disappearance
Israel 1996
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First we take Manhattan
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An International Film Circuit presentation of a Dhat production produced in association with the Fund for the Promotion of Israeli Quality Film.
Director/writer: Elia Suleiman. The film comes in two parts and with two different moods. The first part is entitled Nazareth: A Personal Diary, and the second part Jerusalem: A Political Diary. The director has returned to his homeland after a self-imposed exile of 12 years in New York to tell his story with the use of mostly nonprofessional actors. We get to hear Leonard Cohen sing in his unique and somber tone, as the police blindly invade an Arab apartment to unjustifiably search it. The lyrics reflect about being sentenced to 20 years of boredom.
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A perfect candidateUSA 1996 | Democracy |
A fascinating, frequently cynical, repulsive view of American politics; a 'cinema verite' documentary covering the 1994 United States senate campaign between incumbent Charles Robb (L.B. Johnson son-in-law, plagued by Playboy magazine coverage of "massage" administered by 19 year old blonde sex-pot in New York hotel, and attendance at parties where drug use was common) and Oliver North (convicted of lying to Congress in Iran-Contra, but now a Bible-quoting born-again Christian, campaigning on 'traditional' family values).
Shown from the points of view of the key North campaign stategist and a senior Washington Post political
reporter assigned to the campaign. Cohen's "Democracy," played in full during the final credits, stirs all the right emotional strings.
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Lost and foundHong Kong 1996 |
Dance me to the end of love
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Screenplay by [director] Lee Chi-Ngai. A beautiful woman (Kelly Chan) has leukemia, but learns how to live, and with whom to fall in love,
(Takeshi Kaneshiro, or Michael [Fitzgerald] Wong). In spite of the sad starting point, the film has a graceful, lively, kind of witty tone that supports the story, about loss and death, without undue melancholy.
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BasquiatUSA 1996 |
Hallelujah
(John Cale) |
Basquiat tells the story of the rise and fall of youthful black graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Starting out in New York's Tompkins Square Park in a cardboard box, Jean-Michel is "discovered" by Andy Warhol's art world and becomes an 80's sensation, before dying of a drug overdose at 27. Directed by painter Julian Schnabel, the film features a number of big stars, including Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Walken, Parker Posey, and Benicio Del Toro. Tatum O'Neal, Courtney Love and Isabella Rossellini have small cameos. Jeffrey Wright gives a strong performance as Basquiat, and Claire Folani is heartbreaking in her role as his girlfriend. The closing sequence leads wonderfully to Cale's Hallelujah, done over the closing credits. The soundtrack includes Van Morrison and Tom Waits, among others. David Bowie does the final song and makes an excellent Andy Warhol.
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River StreetAustralia 1996 |
Hallelujah
(Simon Austin) |
Story of a young, aggressive and successful business man who ends up, sentenced by a judge, in a community centre where he has to do social work with socially misadapted people. Directed by Tony Mahood. Cast: Aden Young, Bill Hunter, Tammy McIntosh, Joy Smithers, Essie Davis, and Sullivan Stapleton.
The soundtrack features a very nice guitar & voice cover of Cohen's "Hallelujah" (by the Australian singer Simon Austin) in the ending generic.
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Portraits ChinoisFrance 1996 |
Dance me to the end of love
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French film directed by Martine Dugowson (also known as "Shadow Play") is an intense exploration of the romantic and existential issues
facing a group of 20- and 30-something Parisians and stars Helena Bonham Carter. In one scene she does a charming semi-drunken dance
to Leonard's song.
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Love etc.France 1997 |
Take this waltz
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The storyline deals with three young people and love. Directed by Marion Vernoux. Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, and Charles Berling.
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True love and chaosAustralia 1997 |
So long, Marianne One of us cannot be wrong Bird on a wire |
Directed by Stavros Efthymiou. The main actor, Hugo Weaving, sings several Cohen songs in full: So Long Marianne (a rock-band version) and One of us cannot be wrong (solo acoustic)
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PlatinumCanada 1997 |
Democracy Waiting for the miracle |
A knee slappin', head bangin', rump shakin' peek inside the star-making machines of the music biz. That's how director Bruce McDonald describes his made-for-TV movie. This two hour film is the satirical story of a small, independent Montreal record label and its efforts and misadventures as it tries to sign and retain its volatile singers and bands.
The film opens with Leonard Cohen’s Democracy (instrumental portion only). Shot from a long range lens and from above, a car rolls into the scene and parks on the bird and blue heart logo from Cohen’s The Future album. About one hour and a half into the film, L.Cohen’s Waiting for the Miracle is featured as female band members walk in slow motion to the office building of a rival record label to sign a contract.
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SaraPoland 1997 |
I'm your man Boguslaw Linda If it be your will (Agnieszka Wlodarczyk) |
Sara is 16 years old. Her father - a kind of Godfather type - needs a bodyguard for her. He employs Leon (Boguslaw Linda - Polish Mickey Rourke and Bruce Willis mixed together), an ex-commando (former member of Polish Special Forces) with a drinking problem. His wife has left him because of that. Sara’s father says he will kill anyone who touches his daughter. Soon Sara and Leon become lovers. There is a lot of killing - definitely B or rather C class movie. Directed by Maciej Slesicki.
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Heaven before I dieCanada 1997 |
Dance me to the end of love
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Director: Izidore K. Musallam. Cast: Andy Velasquez, Giancarlo Giannini, Omar Sharif. A young misfit leaves his native Palestine for a new life in Canada, hoping to escape the ridicule he's experienced because of his turned-out feet and Chaplinesque waddling gait. His journey of self-discovery brings him into contact with a cast of colorful characters, including a kind thief and 'The Prophet' author Kahlil Gibran.
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Mr. JealousyUSA 1998 |
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye
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A comedy with Eric Stoltz and Annabella Sciorra as the leading lovers, fine cameos by Peter Bogdanovich and Bridget Fonda, and some good songs on the soundtrack (also John Lennon's Jealous Guy and others by Luna).
The movie is about Lester, a very jealous substitute teacher. He is jealous about the last boyfriend of his current partner Ramona. So he joins her ex- boyfriend's therapy group under an alias to find out if she has any feelings for him.
Cohen's song is used at a critical moment of the plot, and even though only a little over two minutes is played (with several visuals, and one fairly long black screen) it makes an effective contribution to the movie.
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El tiempo de la felicidadSpain 1998 |
Bird on a wire
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A Manuel Iborra film starring by Verónica Forqué and Antonio Resines.
Cohen's song is the leitmotiv of the movie, and you can hear it several times. The film is a comedy about a bohemian family living on Ibiza in the 70's.
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Kiss the skyUSA 1998 |
Tower of song The future Waiting for the miracle Dance me to the end of love Take this longing Teachers Ain't no cure for love Bird on the wire (Jennifer Warnes) |
Directed by Roger Young. MGM, 105 minutes.
Starring Gary Cole, Sheryl Lee, William Petersen, Terence Stamp.
Two businessmen – in search of themselves – leave the ‘rat race’ and their families
behind to live peacefully on a tropical island until their mutual love for a beautiful
woman drives them apart! Read the review by Dick Straub. |
Krutyje. Smertel’noje show
Russia 1998
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Dance me to the end of love |
Cohen's songs was heard in the Russian thriller/detective story "Krutyje. Smertel’noje show" ("Cool Guys. The Internecine Show") - it was playing in the background when the main characters, specialists in crime detection, celebrated successful end of investigation in a café. The film was directed by Igor Shavlak. |
Sex TV
Canada 199X
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Everybody knows Ain't no cure for love |
Every 30 min episode in this erotic documentary starts and ends with Cohen's songs! |
More tales of the city
USA 1999
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Suzanne
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The second last episode of the TV series, based on the books by Armistead Maupin.
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Just Watch Me: Trudeau and The 70's Generation
Canada 1999
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Which song(s)?
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Canadian director Catherine Annau's debut work is a documentary about the legacy of Pierre Trudeau, the long-running Prime Minister of Canada, who governed during the 1970s.
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
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Siam sunsetAustralia 1999 |
Hallelujah
(Vince Jones) |
Director: John Polson. A lightweight comedy about a British man who travels across Australia in a bus, meets a cast of eccentric people, overcomes his grief over his deceased wife, and starts life anew. It features prominently, over a montage sequence, a cover of Hallelujah by famous Australian jazz artist Vince Jones.
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Spanish flySpain/USA 1999 |
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye
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Written and directed by Daphna Kastner. Starring Daphna Kastner and Toni Canto. Produced by Nella Banfi. A Miramax release. Drama. Zoe (Daphna Kastner), a sexually rigid journalist, goes to Spain to research a book about machismo and finds more than she bargained for.
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Wonder boysUSA 2000 |
Waiting for the miracle
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This film features music from some of the world's most popular and acclaimed singer/songwriters - including Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Van Morrison, Neil Young and Leonard Cohen. The film was directed by Academy Award-winner Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential), produced by Scott Rudin and Hanson, and starring Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Katie Holmes, Rip Torn and Robert Downey, Jr.
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I cento passi
Italy 2000
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Suzanne Performer unknown |
This movie was filmed in a small town in Sicily and directed by Marco Tullio Giordana
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ShrekUSA 2001 |
Hallelujah (John Cale) |
Shrek is DreamWorks Pictures' animated comedy adventure, "the greatest fairy tale never told". A reclusive ogre and a chatterbox donkey go on a quest to rescue a princess for a tyrannical midget lord. On the soundtrack CD the song is performed by Rufus Wainwright (John Cale performs the song in the actual movie).
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Ab Fab
UK 2001
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Bird on the wire (Jennifer Saunders) |
"Absolute Fabulous" stars Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley, and follows the adventures of two highly superficial women as they offend everyone with whom they come into contact. In the episode ("Jealous", transmitted on April 27, 1995, in series 3) Saunders gets drunk at a public relations industry award night and is called on to give a speech. Being barely coherent she launches into a spoken version of Bird on a Wire.
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Dancing at the Blue IguanaUSA 2001 |
Dance me to the end of love |
The San Fernando Valley watering hole at the center of
Michael Radford's moody film "Dancing at the Blue
Iguana" is a strip club in which the bare-breasted
dancers writhe and slither to the ominous drone of
Leonard Cohen singing "Dance Me to the End of Love."
That may not be the sort of music you would expect to
hear in such a place. But then the Blue Iguana isn't
just any old West Coast fleshpot but a microcosm of this
sad, lonely world and its lost female souls who cater to
male lust.
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Ball and ChainUSA 2001 |
Chelsea Hotel # 2 |
30 min documentary presents the story of the lonesome rock star Janis Joplin just before her death in October 1970.
In the famous Chelsea Hotel in New York, Janis - alone, drunk and under the influence of drugs - tries to seduce a young black waiter. But he has some questions for her about colour of the skin,drugs and music.
The last scene ends with Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel #2" heard in the background. |
Once And Again
USA 2001
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Sisters of Mercy
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"Sisters" is heard playing throughout a long closing scene of this episode ("Visit of a fragile man") - Aron, Lily's brother, leaves her house to return to the hospital.
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Hombres FelicesSpain 2001 |
Take this waltz
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Spanish comedy directed by Roberto Santiago, starring Sergi López and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón. Filmed in Tenerife (Canary Islands). Take This Waltz is playing no less than three times! |
Judging Amy
USA 2001
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Everybody knows
(Don Henley) |
Cohen's song is used on the soundtrack of episode # 219 |
Dead Zone
USA 2001
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Hallelujah
(Anthony Michael Hall) |
Cohen's song is used on the soundtrack of one of the first season episodes |
Amnesia
Italy 2002
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In my secret life
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Cohen's new song is used twice on the soundtrack. The film was directed by Gabriele Salvatores.
A "junkie" film...young freaky people on Ibiza.
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Pomor Tuljana
Croatia 2002
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Everybody Knows
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This Croatian short film was the graduate work by Ivan Goran Vitez.
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West Wing
USA 2002
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Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley) |
Hallelujah was featured on the last Spring 2002 episode "Posse Comitatus" of this highly esteemed US
TV series.
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SecretaryUSA 2002 |
I'm your man
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A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer,
where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one. Directed by
Steven Shainberg. Starring by E. Edward Grey and Lee Holloway. The Cohen song sets the town for a sequence
that demonstrates her growing love for the attorney, and willingness to do anything for him.
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L'Imbalsamatore
Italy 2002
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I'm your man
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A great and somehow disturbing movie directed by Matteo Garrone. Peppino (Ernesto Mahieux) is an aging taxidermist constantly ridiculed for being short and somewhat creepy. He meets Valerio (Valerio Folgia Manzillo), a handsome young man fascinated by Peppino's work. Peppino, in turn, becomes entranced by Valerio and offers him a large salary to come work as his assistant. But when Valerio meets Deborah (Elisabetta Rocchetti), their fledgling romance is threatened by an insanely jealous third wheel.
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The Good ThiefUSA 2003 |
A thousand kisses deep
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Neil Jordan's thriller, starring Nick Nolte, Ryan Phillippe and Ralph Fiennes.
The film is a remake of Jean Pierre Melville's "Bob le Flambeur" (1955). The story revolves
around an aging gambler and heroin addict planning a major Monte Carlo heist.
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The Life of David GaleUSA 2003 |
The future
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The Life of David Gale tells of a professor and advocate for the abolishment of the death penalty in Texas, who gets convicted and sentenced to death for murder. Directed by Alan Parker.
Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet and Laura Linney are playing the leading roles. "The Future" is being played while the main character, David Gale, attends a party.
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The Best of Youth
Italy 2003
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Suzanne
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Italian drama directed by Marco Tullio Giordana.
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The Gin GameUSA 2003 |
Take this waltz (Scott Trammel) |
This is a PBS Hollywood Presents television version of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize winning play by D.L. Coburn. The original play, with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, did not have a dance scene. The scene was added during a 1997 Broadway revival starring Julie Harris and Charles Durning. (Cohen's sister Esther recalls that the song was played at intermission as well as during the dance sequence in that revival.) This 2003 public television show stars Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore. The play is set in a nursing home. When Mary Tyler Moore's character notices music from a dance class, she says the waltz is beautiful. Dick Van Dyke's character grumbles that the song is too long and that the words are "just crazy." They eventually do dance to it in a very moving scene. The author explains that Julie Harris suggested the dance scene, and that he originally rejected the idea. After he and his wife listened to "Take This Waltz" during dinner one evening he changed his mind. The au!
thor now writes, "I do not see the dance scene as an option for producers at this point. Not only do I not see this as a modular scene that can be plugged in or out at a director's discretion, but I also don't want any other choice of music to be made because "Take This Waltz" inspired me to write this scene. I'd like it to be a part of the play as long as the rights are available."
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OC
USA 2003
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Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley) |
Hallelujah was used on the soundtrack of the 2nd episode in the new FOX series
about a young man who gets into trouble in his hometown and is shipped off to live with relatives in Newport Beach, CA, which is in Orange County, hence the name "OC".
The song was again used in the season finale.
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Without A Trace
USA 2003
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Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley) |
Jeff Buckley version of Hallelujah was also in the episode "Fallout", the season ending show for Without A Trace, a CBS program.
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Crossing Jordan
USA 2003-2004 |
Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley) |
These shows used snippets of the song
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Crash Burn
Australia 2003
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Dance me to the end of love (Mark Seymour) |
When Ben and Rosie’s ten year marriage hits the wall, the resulting debris also hits their friends. The story of their trial separation is told in two distinct halves – his and hers. The new series from CoxKnight taps into the dilemma of modern relationships. The lead track: “Dance Me To The End Of Love”, penned by Leonard Cohen, echoes beneath the opening credits of every episode, and at the end of the very last episode, as a closing finale to the series. This version was specially commissioned for Crashburn and features the vocals of Mark Seymour.
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The Favourite Game
Canada 2003
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You know who I am Suzanne (the riff only) Who by fire True love leaves no traces Dress rehearsal rag A 1000 kisses deep |
The film is based on the novel by Leonard Cohen.
At 28 years of age, poet Leo Breavman takes his memories of childhood and his female conquests as a starting point to create his work. In full identity crisis, he puts an end to his torrid liaison with Tamara in order to spend some time in New York. While writing in a coffee shop, Leo shares a glance with Shell, a graphic designer who divides her time between Montreal and New York. Not long after, the young woman leaves her husband and engages in a passionate affair with the poet.
Drama, 90 mins. Directed by Bernar Hébert, produced by Michel Ouellette for Cine Qua Non Films. Screenplay Bernar Hébert, Peter Putka. -
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Amateur Man
Greece 2003
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Waiting for the miracle Be for real |
"Amateur Man" is a Greek daily drama about a medicine student who becomes a prostitute. In one episode the bad-tempered heroine goes to her room and turns on the radio. "Waiting for the miracle" is on the air
at the moment. In the other episode a company is drinking and talking in a bar. The
music in the background is "Be for real".
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Kotikatu
Finland 2003
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Dance me to the end of love |
Cohen's song was used in the first Fall 2003 episode of this very popular Finnish drama series; a female priest is thinking about her love affairs while Cohen's song is heard on the radio.
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Karen Sisco
USA 2003
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Chelsea Hotel # 2 |
The third episode of Karen Sisco (A new TV series in the style of "Alias") is the one featuring Chelsea Hotel #2. Much of the song as recorded by Leonard is played, with the obvious deletion of a few lyrics about unmade beds. Of interest is that the song plays a real role in the plot, and that the characters say it is a Leonard Cohen song.
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Adieu Pays
France 2003
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Hey, that's no way to say goodbye |
Drama comedy directed by Philippe Ramos, starring Philippe Garziano,
Frédéric Bonpart, Julie Depardieu, Françoise Descarrega, and Violeta Ferrer. Serge and Vincent Nortier, two brothers at the head of the familial sawmill; doctor Claire Tissot (who has a nocturnal affair with Vincent); her daughter Fanny; and the poacher Barthoulot (sworn enemy of the Nortier clan) live in Mantaille, a quiet little village. When Carole, niece of Barthoulot, is passing by the village on her way to Québec to begin a new life in America, Vincent falls in love with her despite the clan's rules, but Serge is ready to do anything to keep the clan together. A story told like a Western movie.
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Nathalie
France 2004
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Boogie Street |
A dramatic comedy by Anne Fontaine tells about a man (Gérard Depardieu) and a woman (Fanny Ardant), who are in their fifties and married together since about 30 years, trying to solve the problems in their fading sexuality with the help of a young prostitute (Emmanuelle Béart) called Nathalie. During a suggestive but sensitive dance of Nathalie around a thin metal column, we hear Leonard singing "A sip of wine, a cigarette..."
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Saint Ralph
Canada 2004
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Hallelujah (Gord Downe) |
The film is about a 14 year old boy whose mother is ill – he decides that to bring her back around, he must perform a miracle – and he eventually settles on running and winning the Boston Marathon. Written and directed by Michael McGowan.
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L Word
USA 2004, 2005
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In my secret life I'm your man Coming back to you (original versions) Hallelujah (Rufus Wainwright) |
"In My Secret Life" is sung in the fourth episode of the "L Word" shown
weekly on Showtime. The song can be heard during the last minutes of the show and during credits. "Hallelujah" performed by Rufus Wainwright is on the soundtrack of a later episode (and also on the soundtrack album), and finally "I'm your man" can be heard in the last episode of the season.
. - The "L Word" is a new series depicting the life of a group of lesbian friends. In the "Luminous" episode (2005 /season 2, episode 7) Leonard was doing "Coming back to You" during the closing credits. |
The last days of The San JoseUSA 2004 |
Hallelujah (Rufus Wainwright) |
A documentary of 90 mins, part ghost story, part video diary, part sociological investigation, story of the lives of both the long term and transitory denizens of the San Jose Motel. Once a charming family motor court in Texas, now one of the last residential hotels on Austin's trip, in disrepair and a haven for the down and out, recovering and most wanted.
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Joan of Arcadia
USA 2004
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Hallelujah |
"Hallelujah" is used in episode # 115 of the series.
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Lobo
Spain 2004
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The Partisan |
A drama directed by Miguel Courtois, starring Eduardo Noriega and José Coronado. The movie is based on a true story about a Spanish spy who joins the ETA in 1973.
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LAX
USA 2004
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Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley) |
"Hallelujah" is played at conclusion of the episode "Thanksgiving" of the new drama show based on guys in charge of the Los Angeles International airport (LAX).
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Amnesia
Italy 2004
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In my secret life |
Diego is a porno movie producer whose young daughter (Stella) is unaware of her dad's activities. She travels to Ibiza to meet her father. Stella has a secret of her own: she is pregnant and wants abortion. At the same time Sergio finds a suitcase full of cocaine and the nightmare begins.
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Nel mio amore (Inside my love)
Italy 2004
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Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley) |
A film directed by Susanna Tamaro, the well-known Italian novelist and movie maker.
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Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei
Germany 2004
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Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley) |
Crime drama directed by Hans Weingartner. Berlin student Jule is hoplessly indebted due to an accident she caused, uninsuredly hitting a rich businessman's limousine. Evicted from her flat she moves in with her boyfrend Peter and soon learns that Peter and his flatmate, Jan, are breaking into luxurious mansions at night. Instead of stealing or vandalizing, though, they carefully and ornately rearrange furniture and valulables and leave obscure messages. Jule convinces Jan, who has a crush on her, to pay a visit to the villa of her creditor..Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley is a significant part of the last half hour or so of the film, played repeatedly through to the end of the film.
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Non ti muovere
Italy 2004
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If it be your will |
This drama directed by Sergio Castellitto is based on a novel written by the director's wife Margaret Mazzantini.
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Land of Plenty
USA 2004
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The land of plenty The letters |
The new film of the famous German director Wim Wenders [Buena Vista Social Club!] will first be shown at the Venice film festival in September 2004. After years of living abroad with her American missionary father, Lana returns to the United States to begin her studies. But instead of focusing on her education, Lana sets out to find her only other living relative - her uncle Paul, her deceased mother’s brother. A Vietnam veteran, Paul is a reclusive vagabond with deep emotional war wounds. A tragic event witnessed by the two unites them in a common goal to rectify a wrong, and takes them on a journey of healing, discovery, and kinship. (Synopsis courtesy of ncta.com). Two Cohen songs are said to play an important role in the movie. Starring Michelle Williams, John Diehl, Richard Edson, Gloria Stewart. Filming took place in Los Angeles, California Desert Towns and New York.
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Duck
USA 2004
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Love Itself Anthem |
In 2009, Arthur, an elderly widower (Philip Baker Hall) comes to the end of the line when his wife dies. Broke and lonely, he is about to commit suicide when he encounters a precious baby duck, which becomes his constant companion. After Arthur becomes the latest victim of the bankrupt and privatized near-future, he and his companion animal face homelessness. Director/writer Nic Bettauer demonstrates his background as a volunteer crisis counselor in a scene where Arthur talks a young man out of ending it all. This indie film was shot in just 18 days. |
A Home at the End
USA 2004
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Suzanne |
This film directed by Michael Mayer is based on Michael Cunningham's novel A Home at the End of the World. The album cover of Songs of Leonard Cohen is also prominently shown, and the main character takes out the LP and puts it onto the record player.
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Mosca & Smith En El Once
Argentina 2005
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I'm your man
| New TV crime comedy tells about two
police officers (Fabián Vena and Pablo Rago).
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Vinterkyss
Norway 2005
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Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley) | Buckley's Hallelujah
appears several times in this sad drama; a story about losing a child and the parents' reaction of grief.
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House, MD
USA 2005
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Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley) |
Season 2 opener of "House, MD" used Buckley's Hallelujah at conclusion (Not full song - about 3 minutes).
House, MD is a medical mystery; Hugh Laurie stars as a brilliant, but sarcastic Dr. Gregory House, a maverick physician who is devoid of bedside manner. While is behavior can border on antisocial, Dr. House thrives on the challenge of solving medical puzzles that other doctors give up on. |
Nip & Tuck
USA 2005
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Dance me to the end of love (Madeleine Peyroux) |
Set in the high-gloss city of Miami, Nip/Tuck explores the lives of two hot-shot plastic surgeons. The song is used in the 2nd season opener. Very poignant scene -- something on the order of Gilbert Grape - not sexy, but definitely moving. |
L'Audition
Canada 2005
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Hallelujah (Original version) |
A movie by director and actor Luc Picard. The story of Louis, a collector guy for loan sharks, a bone braker. His job is to scare people. Louis has always secretly dreamed of becoming an actor and one day he is offered the opportunity to audition for a major director. His life is at a turning point.
The movie won Grand Prize at the new Festival de Films de Montréal. The song comes in at a key moment of the movie, in a crescendo that is very touching. It even seems to interfere with the action on screen and you understand exactly why only at the end. |
This Beggar's Description
Canada 2005
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Suzanne, Who by fire, If it be your will, Guests, Anthem, Partisan |
A sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Philip Tétrault, a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic.
A promising athlete as a child, Philip began experiencing mood swings in his early 20s. His extended family, including his daughter, share their conflicted feelings love, guilt, shame, anger with the camera. They want to make sure he's safe, but how much can they take?
Director/writer Pierre Tétrault (brother of Philip), former artistic director of Young People's Theatre, uses lots of shattered, hazy imagery and some discordant music (by Donald Quan ) for ambience. Songs by Leonard Cohen also add a running commentary, and Cohen, himself a long-time admirer of Philip's poetry, makes a poignant appearance at the film's end.
If you have the DVD be sure to also watch the special feature "Picnic in the park - shooting the breeze with Leonard Cohen" |
Lord of War
USA 2005
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Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley) |
This film charts the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa, selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s, where he forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. The song appears in the last few minutes of the movie.
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Lost
USA 2005
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Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley) |
the show's season one finale ended with Hallelujah
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Hatching, Matching & Dispatching
Canada 2006
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The Future ?? |
In outport Newfoundland, it is often left to one enterprising family to literally taxi the residents of the town from cradle to grave-offering wedding, funeral and ambulance services all under the same roof. Mary Welsh's new show is about one such family, the Fureys.
"The Future" is sung in punk style in a wedding scene. |
Failure to launchUSA 2006 |
Dance me to the end of love Madeleine Peyroux |
Comedy, directed by Tom Dey. A thirtysomething slacker suspects his parents of setting him up with his dream girl so he'll finally vacate their home. |
Wedding StoriesUK 2006 |
Joan of Arc |
A BBC 3 documentary about people of different religions getting married. Christians Anna and Sam prepare for a spectacular wedding, whilst Jacqui and Tony struggle to plan their fairy tale nuptials in the midst of a family fraud.
Joan of Arc is played half way through the programme.
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Falcon Beach
USA 2006
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Hallelujah (Jenny Galt) |
The town's water tower is the scene of a poignant reunion between childhood
friends, Jason, Tanya and Danny. It resonates to the haunting words and
melody of the Leonard Cohen classic Hallelujah, performed specially for the
movie by Jenny Galt of the Vancouver-based duo Cherrybomb.
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Marilyn Monroe:
USA 2006
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I'm your man |
On PBS TV in this episode of the American Masters series, in a segment with
photographer Douglas Kirkland, there is the instrumental
lead-in of "I'm your man," with Kirkland speaking, and then about 40 seconds
of Leonard singing over images of Monroe.
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Cold Case
USA 200X
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I'm your man Hallelujah |
This series is another one in the trend of forensic/detective series in american TV in recent years; this particular series focuses on FBI detectives reopening unsolved murders from years before.
In one of the episodes, the investigation involves a hidden love affair between two women; in one segment, a flashback shows one of them dressed up as a man and lypsinc'ing all (or most of) the verses of "I'm your man" to the other in a parking lot. - According to latest information, the episode "Countdown" (# 20, season 3) uses Hallelujah on the soundtrack. |
OC
USA 2006
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Hallelujah Imogen Heap |
Hallelujah was used again in the very last episode of the third Season ("Graduates", episode # 76) in which Marissa dies.
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Salvador (Puig Antich)
Spain 2006
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Suzanne |
The film tells the story of an anarchist executed in March 1974 in the prison called "Modelo" in Barcelona. Directed by Manuel Huerga and acting Daniel Brühl, Tristán Ulloa, Leonor Walting, Joel Joan, Ingrid Rubio...
Music by Lluis LLach and international artists (Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan...)
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Numb3rs
USA 2006
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Hallelujah (K D Lang) |
The October 6, 2006 episode of this CBS series was called Provenance and dealt with a the theft of a painting which turned out was originally stolen from a jewish family by the Nazis in WWII.
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Deliver Us from EvilUSA 2006 |
Hallelujah Joseph Arthur |
Amy Berg investigates the life of 30-year pedophile Father Oliver O'Grady and exposes the corruption inside the Catholic Church that allowed him to abuse countless children. Hallelujah was playing over the credits.
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Criminal Minds
USA 2006
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Hallelujah (which version?) |
Hallelujah was used in the October 17, 2006 episode "A Real Rain".
Gideon, Hotchner and their team investigate a series of killings that appear to be the work of a vigilante.
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Monkey WarfareCanada 2006 |
The old revolution |
Dan and Linda are ex-revolutionaries who live underground and survive by cruising garage sales for buried treasures they sell on the internet.
Directed by Reginald Harkema
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Veronica Mars
USA 2007
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A thousand kisses deep |
Episode #311 - "Poughkeepsie, Tramps and Thieves": "After last week's LoVe reunion, the couple shared a sweet pillow-talk
moment, baring their souls over Leonard Cohen's A thousand Kisses Deep."
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Duck
USA 2007
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Love itself Anthem |
In 2009, when Los Angeles' last city park is closed to the public, a dispossessed man -- and the duck who follows him as a mother -- quest west, on foot, in search of water and meaning, in the desert that is LA. The film, directed by Nic Bettauer, opens with "Love Itself" and closes with "Anthem".
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Wide Awake
USA 2007
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In my secret life
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This documentary produced, directed, written & edited by Alan Berliner puts his struggle with insomnia under the microscope.
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Ugly Betty
USA 2007
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Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley) |
Hallelujah was used in the episode "A nice day for a posh wedding", episode # 30, season 2.
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ER
USA 2007
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Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley) |
According to a message on the LC Forum ER has now joined the ever growing group of TV series that have used Hallelujah! |
The King of Kong
USA 2007
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Everybody knows
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In 1982, a teenager named Billy Mitchell showed up at a Life magazine photo shoot of the world's best video game players, walked into an arcade and set a world record score for Donkey Kong that destroyed what anybody else had been able to do up to that point.
This is the beginning of this brisk-paced new documentary directed by Seth Gordon and produced byt Ed Cunningham.
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Lost
USA 2007
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Hallelujah (Imogen Heap) |
According to Wikipedia, the third season of the show closed (again) with the haunting rendition of Hallelujah |
SalvadorSpain 2007 |
Suzanne
| Based on a true story, this intense biopic, directed by Manuel Huerga, tells of the doomed life of the young Catalan militant in the Iberian Liberation Movement and the desperate attempts of his family and friends to stay his execution. |
Feast of LoveUSA 2007 |
Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley) | This Morgan Freeman/Robert Benton film includes Hallelujah in a key love scene. |
Scrubs
USA 2007
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Hallelujah (John Cale) |
Virtually every show from The West Wing to The O.C. has used "Hallelujah" at some point, and Scrubs was no exception, whipping it out in only its fourth episode.
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