Paul Goodman Changed My Life

The most influential man you have never heard of.
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  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: April 17, 2012
  • Originally Released: 2011
  • Label: Zeitgeist Films

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User Ratings: 256
Rating: 2.5/4 -- The movie effectively uses Goodman's poems to illustrate his life. Full Review
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Dec 30, 2011
It is generally pungent and enlightening. Full Review
The New Republic
Jun 19, 2013
Rating: 3/4 -- What makes him such an interesting biographic sketch for a film, however, is the way Goodman undercut his own successes. Full Review
Globe and Mail
Dec 9, 2011
Rating: 3/4 -- "Paul Goodman Changed My Life" is a documentary about a man who changed mine. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Dec 30, 2011
Rating: 6/10 -- Paul Goodman Changed My Life, a new documentary by Jonathan Lee, captures Goodman's ubiquitousness, as well as the fashionable intellectual bohemianism of the period... Full Review
Playback:stl
May 15, 2012
Rating: 2/4 -- As documentaries go, it's an able introduction that doesn't make its subject nearly as relevant to our current discontents as it could.
Boston Globe
Jan 3, 2012
Rating: 4/5 -- Lee aims to revive Goodman's legacy, using archival footage and thoughtful interviews with surviving friends and relations to create a portrait of a man who was quite literally too complicated for his times.
NOW Toronto
Dec 9, 2011

Product Description:

The true story of 1960s counterculture icon and GROWING UP ABSURD author Paul Goodman comes alive on the screen through archival footage of the noted intellectual, and through candid interviews with the family, friends, and colleagues who were closest to him. Interviewees include Noam Chomsky, Lee Swenson, Zeke Finkelstein, and Frieda Gardner.

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  • UPC: 795975114035
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