Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin.... A truly beautiful movie. Musicians perform a tribute to this very zen creature in a suit Mr Leonard Cohen.

Interview snippets are economically peppered throughout the movie and also one sees the economy of words and speech with purpose. Just listening is beauty to that voice. A guru of word and most humble.

To write something about this man is almost impossible as words fail me. Listening to his songs and lyrics delivered by other musicians with such conviction and passion to the lyric intent.

This movie oozes from the screen to your heart, as a child does to a parent. If you love music and the poetry of lyric then this movie is a must, if you don't yet you will after seeing it.

The man is simply a legend.

Control

The bands I grew up to in the loose sense of growing up. The Fall and Joy Division always figured highly on my playlist in the flat. The Fall seemed to cater for that angst with semi mystic lyric. Joy Division seemed deep and angst and a whole lotta things.

So when Ian Curtis takes his life what a crash. What a band that could have been. Miraculously New Order rose from this tragedy with success.

Seeing the movie Control re kindled all those feelings from the dizzy days when music could affect public thought and business can be a collective and bands could all earn direct avoiding that middle greedy business man!

But all the nostalgia aside. I felt like I was getting some "closure" something of an answering of why Ian Curtis took his life.

Even at moments I was transported back to the music the realness and the acting completely took me, I forgot ...this ends bad.

Wow what a movie from the bleakness of black and white TV Manchester England. This movie works on so many levels and gives such an understanding as one can of the band and the man Ian Curtis was.

The genius that was Joy Division a must see movie.

And The Pursuit of Happiness (Louis Malle)

How things change? This movie was made in the mid 80's, I believe and is still valid today as it was then.

A couple of questions it left me with.

Is slavery still what the wealth of the world is based on. As each country deals with immigration. What price do people have to pay for the pursuit of that happiness.

This documentary intelligently gives us a birds eye view the pursuit of the American Dream as far as it goes for immigrants.

How different cultures mix or do not.

It merely serves this up to us and allows the viewer to make there own opinion.

A fascinating look at just how vast the gap between rich and poor is. Yet again!