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  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 19 m
  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 19 m
Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan

Summary This film tells the story of the unstoppable rise of the skyscrapers. Starting in 1869, in New York and Chicago, elevators, steel, and electricity combined to create a frenzy of tall and taller buildings. Tall traces the experiments of the early skyscraper architects, especially Louis Sullivan, the Chicago architect (and mentor of Frank ...

  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 19 m
  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 19 m

Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Summary This film tells the story of the unstoppable rise of the skyscrapers. Starting in 1869, in New York and Chicago, elevators, steel, and electricity combined to create a frenzy of tall and taller buildings. Tall traces the experiments of the early skyscraper architects, especially Louis Sullivan, the Chicago architect (and mentor of Frank ...

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90
Jan 18, 2018
Manfred Kirchheimer’s 2006 documentary, only now being released, is an exemplary work of urban romanticism, intellectual history, and visual analysis.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW
90
Jan 18, 2018
The film is useful in part because it is so frankly argumentative. The critical appreciation of art is always advanced more effectively by partisanship than by neutrality.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 18, 2018
[Kirchheimer's] arguments — delivered in declarative voiceover by Dylan Baker and scored to music from Maurice Ravel and Dmitri Shostakovich, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis — have power, but what stirs the mind and the heart, here, is his photography and editing.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 18, 2018
It offers an eccentric but accessible look at American high-rise history.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Jan 19, 2018
Duration 1 h 19 m
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