How ‘The Brutalist’ Conjures Up a Grand Building That Doesn’t Exist
It was the production designer who actually drafted an architect character’s vision. Showing it onscreen without constructing ...
With ‘Megalopolis’ and ‘The Brutalist,’ architecture is having a moment — but to what end?
When you do find an architect on screen, the job is typically ancillary to the plot (in Death Wish, for example, Charles ...
'The Brutalist' re-creates the drama and beauty of mid-century Philadelphia
When filmmaking duo Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold developed the script for "The Brutalist" — a fictional drama about the ...
How ‘The Brutalist’ Production Designer Made the Most of a Low Budget and Turned Budapest Into Philadelphia
Philadelphia in Hungary for Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist" made for a unique challenge for production designer Judy Becker.
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The Brutalist Pairs Modern Architecture and Postwar Trauma
As Corbet’s script, which he wrote with his collaborator and wife, Mona Fastvold, plumbs the metaphorical richness of ...
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Architecture Is an Act of Vengeance in The Brutalist
The Brutalist is about architecture in the way that Citizen Kane is about sledding. The entire epic works its way toward a ...
Joe Alwyn Explains ‘The Brutalist’ Ending and That Trump-Esque Invincibility: “It Makes Me Angry”
The British actor catches up with The Hollywood Reporter to talk about his role in Brady Corbet's buzzy 3.5-hour epic and ...
What Is VistaVision? How 'The Brutalist' Revived a Beautiful but Cumbersome Film Format
"Spectacular size and complete focus across the screen," announced a promotional advertisement in 1954. "The ultimate in film ...
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Movie Review: Like architecture itself, 'The Brutalist' is an epic exercise in ambition and grandeur
The making of a good building,” observed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, “is a great moral performance.” Like many notable ...
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To Make ‘The Brutalist’ Monumental, the Filmmakers Approached Cinema as Architecture
This architectural fantasy, the Institute, is the physical center of gravity in The Brutalist, a 215-minute cinematic epic of midcentury America, the postwar immigrant experience, and the practice of ...
‘The Brutalist’ Cinematographer Lol Crawley Breaks Down Filming in VistaVision in an Active Marble Mine in Tuscany
“The Brutalist” tells the story of Hungarian Jewish architect László Tóth, played by Adrien Brody. He escapes the Holocaust ...
Review: 'The Brutalist' is the movie of the year
Film critic Peter Travers reviews "The Brutalist," directed and produced by Brady Corbet, co-written by Corbet and Mona ...