Visual Acoustics
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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 anand 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)… Expand

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  2. Mixed: 3 out of 12
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  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    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.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    80
    A really terrific, intensely focused documentary on a fascinating personality.
  3. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    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.
  4. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Keith Uhlich
    60
    Visual Acoustics goes out of its way to remain as kindly and pleasing as Shulman himself.

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