Cohen sang the original version of “Hallelujah” on his 1986 album Various Positions. His rendition incorporates elements of new wave music and gospel music.

That documentary is inspired by music journalist Alan Light’s much-acclaimed book, “The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley & the Unlikely Ascent of ‘Hallelujah’,” originally ...

When he began to work on “Hallelujah,” he kept writing verses, filling notebooks with perhaps 180 of them, and the song literally took years to complete. Cohen didn’t do this with other songs.

Leonard’s Cohen’s song “Hallelujah” is an anthem for people who are spiritual, secular, skeptical, romantic, and heartbroken. Now it’s one of the most recognizable songs, but it was a flop upon ...

After enjoying glory on the film festival circuit, the documentary Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song is ready for its wider rollout. Hallelujah — directed and produced by Daniel ...

Larry “Ratso” Sloman is an author and long-time interviewer of Cohen. When the two first met, Sloman was writing for Rolling Stone, had a deep fascination with Cohen’s music, and was eager ...

A new documentary, “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song,” details how the tune went on a journey from John Cale and Jeff Buckley covers to “Shrek” and “American Idol” ubiquity.

“Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song” is smart enough to embrace that mystery and that beauty, and to know that there’s far more to Cohen than can be summed up in four, or seven, or ...

Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” was a complex, nearly indecipherable musical riddle that flummoxed even its composer. Originally released as a funereal synth-laden dirge on 1984’s Various ...

‘Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song’ Review: A Unique and Gratifying Pop-Music Documentary Reviewed at Venice Film Festival (Out of Competition), Sept. 4, 2021.