Tower

The animation, by Craig Staggs, has a notable imaginative specificity, and the meticulously complex interweaving of styles turns the film into a horrifying true-crime thriller that’s enriched by a rare depth of inner experience.

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Austin-based filmmaker Keith Maitland’s eyewitness-based account of Charles Whitman’s killing spree uses animation and survivors’ memories to powerful effect.

2952d ago

The animation, by Craig Staggs, has a notable imaginative specificity, and the meticulously complex interweaving of styles turns the film into a horrifying true-crime thriller that’s enriched by a rare depth of inner experience.

2952d ago

Words can't do justice to the singular power of Keith Maitland's documentary Tower, a you-are-there reconstruction of the harrowing 1966 mass shooting at the University of Texas at Austin, where 25-year-old former Marine and engineering student Charles Whitman planted himself in the school's clock tower and shot 49 people, killing 16.

2952d ago

Using a limited frame, Mr. Maitland does his own commemorating, inherently raising questions about terror, the nature of heroism and what it means to really survive. He also does something even more necessary: He turns names on a plaque into people.

2952d ago

Using a limited frame, Mr. Maitland does his own commemorating, inherently raising questions about terror, the nature of heroism and what it means to really survive. He also does something even more necessary: He turns names on a plaque into people.

2952d ago

The animation, by Craig Staggs, has a notable imaginative specificity, and the meticulously complex interweaving of styles turns the film into a horrifying true-crime thriller that’s enriched by a rare depth of inner experience.

2952d ago

Using a limited frame, Mr. Maitland does his own commemorating, inherently raising questions about terror, the nature of heroism and what it means to really survive. He also does something even more necessary: He turns names on a plaque into people.

2952d ago

Words can't do justice to the singular power of Keith Maitland's documentary Tower, a you-are-there reconstruction of the harrowing 1966 mass shooting at the University of Texas at Austin, where 25-year-old former Marine and engineering student Charles Whitman planted himself in the school's clock tower and shot 49 people, killing 16.

2952d ago

Austin-based filmmaker Keith Maitland’s eyewitness-based account of Charles Whitman’s killing spree uses animation and survivors’ memories to powerful effect.

2952d ago

Words can't do justice to the singular power of Keith Maitland's documentary Tower, a you-are-there reconstruction of the harrowing 1966 mass shooting at the University of Texas at Austin, where 25-year-old former Marine and engineering student Charles Whitman planted himself in the school's clock tower and shot 49 people, killing 16.

2952d ago

The animation, by Craig Staggs, has a notable imaginative specificity, and the meticulously complex interweaving of styles turns the film into a horrifying true-crime thriller that’s enriched by a rare depth of inner experience.

2952d ago

Austin-based filmmaker Keith Maitland’s eyewitness-based account of Charles Whitman’s killing spree uses animation and survivors’ memories to powerful effect.

2952d ago

A tense, reflective and uniquely cinematic reconstruction of the 1966 sniper shootings that rocked a Texas university campus.

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I rarely, if ever, use the cliche “a must-see movie,” but in this case it’s entirely apropos. Go see Tower, and then think long and hard about how little ground our society has gained in the intervening half-century when it comes to guns in the streets and spent bullet casings on the ground.

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Fifty years later, Keith Maitland talks to survivors of the University of Texas massacre.

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The gripping Tower highlights bravery in the face of horror.

2952d ago

Fifty years later, Keith Maitland talks to survivors of the University of Texas massacre.

2952d ago

The gripping Tower highlights bravery in the face of horror.

2952d ago

I rarely, if ever, use the cliche “a must-see movie,” but in this case it’s entirely apropos. Go see Tower, and then think long and hard about how little ground our society has gained in the intervening half-century when it comes to guns in the streets and spent bullet casings on the ground.

2952d ago

Fifty years later, Keith Maitland talks to survivors of the University of Texas massacre.

2952d ago

A tense, reflective and uniquely cinematic reconstruction of the 1966 sniper shootings that rocked a Texas university campus.

2952d ago

I rarely, if ever, use the cliche “a must-see movie,” but in this case it’s entirely apropos. Go see Tower, and then think long and hard about how little ground our society has gained in the intervening half-century when it comes to guns in the streets and spent bullet casings on the ground.

2952d ago

The gripping Tower highlights bravery in the face of horror.

2952d ago

A tense, reflective and uniquely cinematic reconstruction of the 1966 sniper shootings that rocked a Texas university campus.

2952d ago

With mass shootings such a disturbingly common occurrence in the United States today, it’s becoming more and more difficult to remember a time when news of such senseless violence wasn’t met with the same exhausting thought: “Again?”

2952d ago

The gripping Tower highlights bravery in the face of horror.

2952d ago

With mass shootings such a disturbingly common occurrence in the United States today, it’s becoming more and more difficult to remember a time when news of such senseless violence wasn’t met with the same exhausting thought: “Again?”

2952d ago

Fifty years later, Keith Maitland talks to survivors of the University of Texas massacre.

2952d ago

With mass shootings such a disturbingly common occurrence in the United States today, it’s becoming more and more difficult to remember a time when news of such senseless violence wasn’t met with the same exhausting thought: “Again?”

2952d ago

I rarely, if ever, use the cliche “a must-see movie,” but in this case it’s entirely apropos. Go see Tower, and then think long and hard about how little ground our society has gained in the intervening half-century when it comes to guns in the streets and spent bullet casings on the ground.

2952d ago

A tense, reflective and uniquely cinematic reconstruction of the 1966 sniper shootings that rocked a Texas university campus.

2952d ago

With mass shootings such a disturbingly common occurrence in the United States today, it’s becoming more and more difficult to remember a time when news of such senseless violence wasn’t met with the same exhausting thought: “Again?”

2952d ago

Using newsreel footage, rotoscoped animation and talking-head interviews, this documentary re-creates the events surrounding the 1966 Texas Tower massacre with a remarkable you-are-there immediacy.

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Using newsreel footage, rotoscoped animation and talking-head interviews, this documentary re-creates the events surrounding the 1966 Texas Tower massacre with a remarkable you-are-there immediacy.

2952d ago

Documentaries about events in the somewhat-distant past tend to speak in a familiar visual vocabulary.

2952d ago

Documentaries about events in the somewhat-distant past tend to speak in a familiar visual vocabulary.

2952d ago

Documentaries about events in the somewhat-distant past tend to speak in a familiar visual vocabulary.

2952d ago

Using newsreel footage, rotoscoped animation and talking-head interviews, this documentary re-creates the events surrounding the 1966 Texas Tower massacre with a remarkable you-are-there immediacy.

2952d ago

Documentaries about events in the somewhat-distant past tend to speak in a familiar visual vocabulary.

2952d ago

Using newsreel footage, rotoscoped animation and talking-head interviews, this documentary re-creates the events surrounding the 1966 Texas Tower massacre with a remarkable you-are-there immediacy.

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The longer this film pulls back from the day and the more its animation focuses on the outcome, the more profound it grows.

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The longer this film pulls back from the day and the more its animation focuses on the outcome, the more profound it grows.

2952d ago

The longer this film pulls back from the day and the more its animation focuses on the outcome, the more profound it grows.

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The longer this film pulls back from the day and the more its animation focuses on the outcome, the more profound it grows.

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Propulsive, beautiful and tense as hell, Tower is superior documentary filmmaking.

2952d ago

Propulsive, beautiful and tense as hell, Tower is superior documentary filmmaking.

2952d ago

Propulsive, beautiful and tense as hell, Tower is superior documentary filmmaking.

2952d ago

Propulsive, beautiful and tense as hell, Tower is superior documentary filmmaking.

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Broadly, filmmaker Keith Maitland's treatment of the UT Tower shooting is both taut and humane.

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Broadly, filmmaker Keith Maitland's treatment of the UT Tower shooting is both taut and humane.

2952d ago

Broadly, filmmaker Keith Maitland's treatment of the UT Tower shooting is both taut and humane.

2952d ago

Broadly, filmmaker Keith Maitland's treatment of the UT Tower shooting is both taut and humane.

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