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  • 2009
  • Unrated
  • Arthouse Films
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2009
  • Unrated
  • Arthouse Films
  • 1 h 23 m

Summary 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 includi...

Directed By: Eric Bricker

Written By: Phil Ethington, Jessica Hundley, Lisa Hughes, Deborah Dietsch, Eric Bricker

  • 2009
  • Unrated
  • Arthouse Films
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2009
  • Unrated
  • Arthouse Films
  • 1 h 23 m

Visual Acoustics

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary 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 includi...

Directed By: Eric Bricker

Written By: Phil Ethington, Jessica Hundley, Lisa Hughes, Deborah Dietsch, Eric Bricker

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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25% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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75% Positive
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25% Mixed
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83
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.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
78
Associated with the modernist architectural movement centered in Southern California during the mid-20th century, Shulman’s still photographs are essential to any study of the style’s vast popularization and commercialism.
By Marjorie Baumgarten FULL REVIEW
75
Shulman photographed buildings as if they were movie stars: He found their best angles and immortalized them.
By Carrie Rickey FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
70
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.
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60
Visual Acoustics goes out of its way to remain as kindly and pleasing as Shulman himself.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
50
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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Release Date Oct 9, 2009
Duration 1 h 23 m
Rating Unrated
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Website http://www.juliusshulmanfilm.com/
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Awards

Austin Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Palm Springs International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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