Paul Goodman Changed My Life
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  • Summary: Paul Goodman was once so ubiquitous in the American zeitgeist that he merited a “cameo” in Woody Allenʼs Annie Hall. Author of legendary bestseller Growing Up Absurd (1960), Goodman was also a poet, 1940s out queer, pacifist, visionary, co-founder of Gestalt therapy—and a moral compass mpass for many in the burgeoning counterculture of the ‘60s. Paul Goodman Changed My Life immerses you in an era of high intellect 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. (Zeitgeist Films)… Expand
  • Director: Jonathan Lee
  • Genre(s): Biography, Drama, History, Documentary
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Runtime: 89 min
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  1. Positive: 7 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Sam Adams
    Oct 19, 2011
    83
    Perhaps it's a tribute to the breadth of Goodman's life that even after 90 minutes, it feels as if we've just scratched the surface.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Mark Holcomb
    Oct 18, 2011
    80
    As bluntly humanist and free-ranging as its subject, this brisk take on the life of poet, sociologist, educator, psychologist, and general pain-in-the-ass gadfly Paul Goodman is as much endangered-species doc as biography.
  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    Jan 5, 2012
    75
    Filled with abundant evidence of Goodman as a public intellectual, assembled by its director Jonathan Lee, who believes the time is here for a rediscovery of his ideas.
  4. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Keith Uhlich
    Oct 18, 2011
    60
    Mostly though, it feels like we're watching a superficial gloss on Goodman's CV rather than a probing interrogation of his legacy. For the choir only.

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