How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer
Jeff Zimbalist's 2024 feature documentary on Norman Mailer; U.S. theatrical premiere at Film Forum on 28 June 2024. An about-Mailer film, included under the audio/video extension to Lennon's scope.
How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer is a feature documentary directed by Jeff Zimbalist, distributed in North America by Zeitgeist Films with Kino Lorber, and given its U.S. theatrical premiere at Film Forum in New York on 28 June 2024. Several Mailer family and Norman Mailer Society members took part in the premiere. The film falls under the audio/video extension to Lennon’s Works and Days scope (Lennon’s register excluded film); by editor’s decision it is given a single Work page that the documentary’s coverage points to.
Coverage in this register includes the Variety review (Owen Gleiberman), the LitHub reading-list tie-in, and the Screen Daily distribution notice.