Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?

(Redirected from Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?) 2013 film

Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
Film poster
Directed by	Michel Gondry
Written by	Michel Gondry
Produced by	Raffi Adlan Georges Bermann Julie Fong Michel Gondry
Starring	Noam Chomsky
Edited by	Sophie Reine Adam M. Weber
Distributed by	IFC Films
Release dates	12 February 2013 (2013-02-12) (MIT) 30 April 2014 (2014-04-30) (France)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	France
Languages	English French
Box office	$137,042

Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? is a 2013 French animated documentary film by Michel Gondry about the linguist, philosopher, and political activist Noam Chomsky.

Cast

Noam Chomsky as himself
Michel Gondry as himself

Release

Originally titled Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?: An Animated Conversation with Noam Chomsky, it was first screened on 12 February 2013 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The film had its European premiere in the Panorama section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.

Reception

Reviews

Rotten Tomatoes reports that 92% of critics gave the film a positive review, based upon a sample of 38, with an average score of 7.2 out of 10. According to the site's critical consensus, "An unlikely pairing of form and style, Michel Gondry's Is the Tall Man Happy? successfully gives Noam Chomsky's philosophical musings an expressive canvas with a delightfully anarchic animation style." Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gave the film an average score of 76 based on 16 reviews.

References

"Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
"Panorama 2014: First Films". PRESS RELEASES 64TH BERLINALE. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin. 19 December 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
"Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? Movie Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
"Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?". Metacritic. Retrieved 19 January 2014.

External links

v t e Films directed by Michel Gondry
Features	Human Nature (2001) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) The Science of Sleep (2006) Be Kind Rewind (2008) The Green Hornet (2011) The We and the I (2012) Mood Indigo (2013) Microbe & Gasoline (2015) The Book of Solutions (2023) Golden (2025)
Documentaries	Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2005) The Thorn in the Heart (2009) Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (2013)
TV series	Kidding (2018–20)
Shorts/segments	Pecan Pie (2003) Tokyo! (2008)
Music videos	The Work of Director Michel Gondry (2003) Michel Gondry 2: More Videos (Before and After DVD 1) (2009)
Animated films	Maya, Give Me a Title (2024)

Noam Chomsky

Select
bibliography

Linguistics	Syntactic Structures (1957) Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (1964) Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965) Cartesian Linguistics (1966) Language and Mind (1968) The Sound Pattern of English (1968) "Remarks on Nominalization" (1970) "Conditions on Transformations" (1973) Reflections on Language (1975) The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory (1975) Lectures on Government and Binding (1981) Knowledge of Language (1986) The Minimalist Program (1995) New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind (2000)
Politics	"The Responsibility of Intellectuals" (1967) American Power and the New Mandarins (1969) For Reasons of State (1973) Counter-Revolutionary Violence (1973), with Edward S. Herman The Fateful Triangle (1983) Manufacturing Consent (1988), with Edward S. Herman Necessary Illusions (1989) Deterring Democracy (1991) Letters from Lexington (1993) The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many (1993) World Orders Old and New (1994) Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship (1997) Hegemony or Survival (2003) Failed States (2006) Requiem for the American Dream (2017)
Collections	Class Warfare (1996) Middle East Illusions (2003) Imperial Ambitions (2005) Interventions (2007) Gaza in Crisis (2010) 9-11: Was There An Alternative? (2011) Making the Future (2012) Occupy (2012) On Palestine (2015), with Ilan Pappé

Academic
works about

Filmography

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
Last Party 2000 (2001)
Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times (2002)
Distorted Morality – America's War on Terror? (2003)
Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause (2003) (TV)
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land (2004)
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (2013)

Family

William Chomsky (father)
Carol Chomsky (deceased wife)
Valeria Wasserman (wife)
Aviva Chomsky (daughter)

Chomsky–Foucault debate

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