Three More Cards, Three More Tricks

A deluxe box set containing three DVDs focussing on Leonard Cohen's Music and Career. The set features the following original films in their complete, unabridged versions, including all original extras, set up features and menus. THE COMPLETE REVIEW - VOLUME 1 Covering the years 1935 (When the great man entered this world) until 1977 (the year he released his ground-breaking album, Death Of A Ladies Man, co-written and produced with Phil Spector) when he changed his style almost unrecognisably. The film features rare footage and music plus interviews with those who worked alongside Leonard during this period. THE COMPLETE REVIEW - VOLUME 2 Disc two covers the period 1978 - 2006, during which Cohen released some of his finest albums; such as Recent Songs (1979), Various Positions (1984), I'm Your Man (1988), The Future (1992), Ten New Songs (2001) and Dear Heather (2004). He also performed a number of superb concert tours and even found time to spend years at a Buddhist Monastery, where he would meditate for several hours a day. LEONARD COHEN'S LONESOME HEROES In Leonard Cohen's Lonesome Heroes, the scope and detail of his artistic inspirations are put under the microscope. Cohen's first love was poetry and in both the works of his fellow Canadian Irving Layton, and the Spanish bard Federico Garcia Lorca, he found the words that moved him to create his own verse. The beat writers too hit a positive note with Cohen and their work has lived with him throughout his career. While it may come as no surprise to find Bob Dylan and Judy Collins included in this film, a less acknowledged genre of interest to Leonard is country music - but he was deeply affected by performers such as Hank Williams, Hank Snow and by the country recordings of Ray Charles. These and many others artists are here shown to have played a crucial role in the formation of Leonard Cohen's muse.