“We are exploring our legal options.”īrian J.
Rice, the legal rep for the Leonard Cohen estate said in a statement Friday. “We are surprised and dismayed that the RNC would proceed knowing that the Cohen Estate had specifically declined the RNC’s use request, and their rather brazen attempt to politicize and exploit in such an egregious manner ‘Hallelujah,’ one of the most important songs in the Cohen song catalogue,” Michelle L. Now, the estate says, they plan on “exploring our legal options.”
In fact, they specifically told the RNC they couldn’t use “Hallelujah,” but they did anyway. Leonard Cohen’s famous ballad “Hallelujah” was everywhere this week, and while the late singer might not have minded its inclusion in the new trailer for the Snyder Cut of Justice League, his estate would like everyone to know he definitely wouldn’t have wanted it used at the 2020 Republican National Convention. While you wait for the film to debut, you can watch the trailer here.Photo: Gary Wolstenholme/Redferns via Getty Images
In "Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song" (opening in theaters Friday, July 8), the Emmy-winning co-directors, who are married and live near Alamo Square, trace the unlikely artistic journey of the legendary singer-songwriter's most enduring and widely covered song.īy doing so, their film, which is engaging even for those with only a casual interest in the Canadian troubadour, also becomes a moving portrait of the poet turned musician who was on a lifelong quest to square his spiritual hunger (Cohen spent half a decade living in a Zen monastery) with his secular and sexual longings for connection. At a time when pop singers can dash off a song on their phone, post it online and achieve overnight success, it's astounding to watch Leonard Cohen scribble and revise the lyrics to his famous song "Hallelujah" in notebooks over the course of more than five years in a new documentary by San Francisco filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine.
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