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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 activist - 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.
Original Release
10/19/2011
US Release
10/19/2011
Cast
Name | Character |
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Paul Goodman | Self / Himself |
Directors
Cast
Name | Character |
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Paul Goodman | Self / Himself |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Israel Ehrisman | Producer |
Robert Hawk | Producer |
Jonathan Lee | Producer |
Kimberly Reed | Producer |