Paul Goodman was once so ubiquitous in the American zeitgeist that he merited a cameo in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Author of legendary bestseller Growing Up Absurd (1960), Goodman was also a poet, 1940s out queer (and family man), pacifist, visionary, co-founder of Gestalt therapy—and a moral compass for many in the burgeoning counterculture of the ’60s.
Paul Goodman Changed My Life immerses you in an era of high intellect (that heady, cocktail-glass juncture that Mad Men has so effectively exploited) when New York was peaking culturally and artistically; when ideas, and the people who propounded them, seemed to punch in at a higher weight class than they do now. Using a treasure trove of archival multimedia—selections from Goodman’s poetry (read by Garrison Keillor and Edmund White); quotes from Susan Sontag, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Noam Chomsky; plentiful footage of Goodman himself; plus interviews with his family, peers and activists—director/producer Jonathan Lee and producer/editor Kimberly Reed (Prodigal Sons) have woven together a rich portrait of an intellectual heavyweight whose ideas are long overdue for rediscovery.
Run time | 89 Minutes |
Theater Release Date | October 19, 2011 |
DVD and Blu-ray Release Date | April 17, 2012 |
Actors | Paul Goodman |
Directed by | Jonathan Lee |
Studio | Zeitgeist Films |
MPAA | Not-Rated (Not Rated) |
Gross | $34,605 |
Genre(s) | Documentary |
Watch Movie Trailer | Paul Goodman Changed My Life Trailer |
Where to Rent | Netflix Redbox |
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