The New Yorker1h
The Empty Ambition of “The Brutalist”
Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” is such a film—one that proclaims its ambition by the events and themes that it takes on, ...
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 ...
Mansion Global14d
Brutalist, Midcentury, French. He’s Got a Thing for Chairs.
Los Angeles–based interior designer Stephan Jones talks about his passion for collecting stylish, noteworthy seating ...
What Is VistaVision? How ‘The Brutalist’ Revived a Beautiful but Cumbersome Film Format
"The Brutalist" filmmaker Brady Corbet shot his 3.5-hour epic in VistaVision, but what is the gorgeous but cumbersome film ...
Architectural Record14d
To Make ‘The Brutalist’ Monumental, the Filmmakers Approached Cinema as Architecture
Yet we’re placed in built exteriors and interior sets enough to appreciate what’s happening. The layered cinematic volumes—score, cinematography, editing, production design—solidify into a space ...
CNN14d
How ‘The Brutalist’ built architect László Tóth — inside and out
Director Brady Corbet’s film “The Brutalist,” a vast and imposing ... The thrust of the movie is Tóth’s commission to design a public institute for industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren ...
Los Angeles Times8d
A sultry scene shifts in ‘The Brutalist’
The architectural wonder of writer-director Brady Corbet’s 215-minute postwar immigrant epic “The Brutalist” astonishes onscreen. The ambitious spectacle, which follows László Toth (Adrien ...
Yahoo16d
Movie Review: Like architecture itself, 'The Brutalist' is an epic exercise in ambition and grandeur
And, wouldn't you know, ambition and design are precisely what the movie’s about. Of course, that’s not all. “The Brutalist,” which takes its name from the raw style of architecture that ...