avivapress's blog

By Maria Esteves - November 11, 2009

The 29th CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival 2009 (CMJ09), Opening Night Special Screening of LEONARD COHEN: LIVE AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT 1970, directed by Academy Award winning filmmaker Murray Lerner was held at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex, New York, Tuesday, October 20, 7:00 PM. Attendees included CMJ recording artists, filmmakers, industry professionals, songwriters, producers, promoters, and journalists. A special Q&A session immediately followed the screening with director Lerner and singer/songwriter Judy Collins moderated by Alan Light, director,
programming, "Live from the Artists Den."

LEONARD COHEN: LIVE AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT 1970 is an astonishing music documentary based on the awe inspiring live performance by iconic Canadian folksinger/songwriter/poet/novelist Leonard Cohen at the Third Annual Isle Of Wight Music Festival, on August 31, 1970, 2:00 A.M. The five-day outdoor music festival in England with an estimated audience of 600,000 featured performances by Joan Baez, Jimmy Hendrix, Kris Kristofferson, and many others. The exclusive behind the scenes and live footage of Cohen's performance are profound and extraordinary.  

LEONARD COHEN: LIVE AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT 1970, directed by Murray Lerner | Music Documentary | USA | 2009 | English | 65 min.| released by Columbia/Legacy, Opening Night Special Screening, 2009 CMJ Film Festival, now available on Blu-ray, DVD, CD, and Vinyl (2 disc set).  For more information, please visit: http://www.leonard-cohen.com/music.cgi?album_id=23

Post new comment

Your name: *

E-mail: *

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.

Homepage:

Subject:

Comment: *

• Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
• Allowed HTML tags: <p><b> <br> <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <img> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <div> <span> <embed> <param> <object> <script><i><b><u>
• Insert Google Map macro.
• Images can be added to this post.
• Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

More information about formatting options

CAPTCHA

This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.

What code is in the image?: *

Copy the characters (respecting upper/lower case) from the image.