Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen (1965)

National Film Board of Canada
Directed by Donald Brittain and Don Owen
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
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Before he started recording albums that made him famous around the world, he was a poet and stand up comic in Canada. These pre-fame days are captured in this sort of black-and-white promo film with a jazz soundtrack. Leonard entertains a packed college crowd with his dry humor, Leonard visits a late-night bistro incognito, Leonard records his poetry for a record album, and so forth and so on. He seemed like a nice guy, but it does often feel like vain self-promotion.