Paul Goodman Changed My Life - official US trailer

Opens October 19, 2011. 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.

For more information visit http://www.paulgoodmanfilm.com

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[garvey812]

@lioctober Why do you care who he had sex with? I don't understand this hostility man. And it's fuckin', not fucken. Go watch Fox News, you illiterate, anti-Semitic homophobe

[dennervideos]

Must say I'm really looking forward to seeing this movie film in 2011 !

Thank you for sharing the new trailer

Denner

[knightschwartz]

did he support the 1965 imm. reform act? If so I don't like him.

[charlesnsiegel]

Goodman was one of the most interesting political writers of the twentieth century. I am sure that the people who are criticizing him here have never read any of his books.

Worst of the commenters, obviously, is lioctober, who is a racist and who spouts obscenities because he doesn't have anything worthwhile to say.

[lioctober]

what a fucken loser have sex with any one...ya open mind? left wing shit this is why people hate the jews. he gives them a bad name.

[caseyspaos]

@diewahrheitistnochda Oh, I have got lots to say. Only judging from your comments, you wouldn't understand those big words.

[diewahrheitistnochda]

@caseyspaos a typical answer from someone who dont know what else to say. "fear", "judgementalism", "negativity", "hatred" ... haha

[caseyspaos]

@diewahrheitistnochda Goodman was as healthy, brave, smart and honest and as they come. You, on the other hand, appear to be suffering from irrational fear, judgementalism, negativity and hatred. Sounds like you could use the therapies he developed, you poor, sick man.