Best Of: ‘First Man’ Dir. Damien Chazelle / Leonard Cohen’s Legacy

Best Of: ‘First Man’ Dir. Damien Chazelle / Leonard Cohen’s Legacy

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The Oscar-winning director (‘La La Land’) talks about his new film, ‘First Man,’ which stars Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong in the 10 years leading up to the moon landing. Chazelle wanted to show how loud, rickety, and nauseating space travel was at the time. He used full-scale replicas that spun and shook violently — with the actors and cameras inside. “The sweat you see on screen will be real. The shaking will be real. Even some of the terror will be real. The nausea will be real. And, by extension, the audience will really feel that they themselves are in that capsule too.”

Leonard Cohen died in 2016, leaving behind many unpublished poems and lyrics. His son Adam Cohen discusses ‘The Flame,’ a collection of some of Leonard’s final works.