Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen

Paints an informal portrait of the legendary Montreal poet, novelist and songwriter both onstage and off.

Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen is a 1965 documentary about Leonard Cohen, co-directed by Don Owen and Donald Brittain, and written by Brittain.

Produced by John Kemeny for the National Film Board of Canada, the film received the Genie Award in the TV-Information category.

 The original idea for the film had involved documenting a tour of Canadians poets, including Irving Layton and Earle Birney; however, that idea was abandoned when the filmmakers decided the other poets would not serve as charismatic film subjects. Watch courtesy of the NFB from their site, below, or via their YouTube channel.