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Visual Acoustics

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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary
Written by:
Eric Bricker
Phil Ethington
Lisa Hughes
Jessica Hundley
Directed by: Eric Bricker
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 9, 2009
Running Time: 83 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Frances Anderton, Tom Ford, Frank O. Gehry, Recardo Legorreta, and Kelly Lynch
Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, Visual Acoustics celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman, who passed away this year, captured the work of nearly every modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Frank Gehry. His images epitomized the singular beauty of Southern California’s modernist movement and brought its iconic structures to the attention of the general public. This unique film is both a testament to the evolution of modern architecture and a joyful portrait of the magnetic, whip-smart gentleman who chronicled it with his unforgettable images. (Arthouse Films)
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What The Critics Said
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Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Shulman was around so long that he even got to weigh in on Frank Gehry's Disney Hall. He was skeptical once but came to love it.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
A really terrific, intensely focused documentary on a fascinating personality.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Shulman photographed buildings as if they were movie stars: He found their best angles and immortalized them.
Read Full Review >St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams
This stylish film reminds us that great images endure after bodies and buildings crumble.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Andy Webster
It’s about lovely photographs of graceful buildings and those who can afford the real estate. But it does pay proper respect to a deserving artist.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Nominally about the life and career of landmark Southern California architectural photographer Julius Shulman, but it's more about the buildings he photographed than it is about him. Which is probably the way he'd like it.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Ella Taylor
Enjoyable as it is, Bricker's giddy hagiography could have used a little pushback, especially in the matter of Shulman's airy dismissal of the postmodernism that, he claimed, forced him into "retirement."
Read Full Review >Time Out New York Keith Uhlich
Visual Acoustics goes out of its way to remain as kindly and pleasing as Shulman himself.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Fred Camper
This documentary tells this story reasonably well, though one might question whether director Eric Bricker's jazzy montages, collages, and rapid camera movements are appropriate to the contemplation of still photographs.
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