Inside the Making of ‘The Brutalist,’ One of the Year’s Best Films

How ‘The Brutalist’ Production Designer Made the Most of a Low Budget and Turned Budapest Into Philadelphia

Judy Becker’s portfolio of production design work on films like “American Hustle” and “Carol” prepared her to take on the unique challenge of shooting a period piece. “Carol” was shot in Cincinnati doubling for New York and “American Hustle” was shot in Boston and also meant to be New York, so she’s “used to looking for the right place in the wrong place.” But shooting overseas — in the case of Brady Corbet’s historical epic “The Brutalist,”…

‘The Brutalist’, ‘The Room Next Door’ & ‘The Count Of Monte Cristo’ Jump Into Pre-Christmas Indie Frame – Specialty Preview

Fewer new openings but important ones for the indie world as the year soon to close welcomes the trio of Brady Corbet’s much-nominated The Brutalist with Adrien Brody, Pedro Almodovar’s first English outing The Room Next Door starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, and a new rendition of revenge thriller The Count Of Monte Cristo. All three are starting in limited release. Aardman Animations’ latest, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, i…

Inside the Making of ‘The Brutalist,’ One of the Year’s Best Films

Director Brady Corbet talks about making one of the year's most ambitious films—and biggest awards favorite—on a budget of $10 million.

Review: The Brutalist - Chicago Reader

Brady Corbet's three-and-a-half-hour film The Brutalist is a massive American epic that damns the ground we stand on.

Inside the Epic Filmmaking of ‘The Brutalist’: “What the F–k Is Happening Here?”

Director Brady Corbet and cinematographer Lol Crawley say they can’t take credit for their favorite shots in The Brutalist. The longtime collaborators shot their three-and-a-half hour epic on 16mm while also employing the VistaVision celluloid format—very rarely used in movies over the past half-century—but opted not to storyboard it. From beginning to end, they were open to discovery, trusting that their innovative method of filmmaking would yi…

‘The Brutalist’ Is Brady Corbet’s Great American Masterpiece

Imagine a film archivist scouring an underground vault in Burbank or a cave in Butte, Montana, and discovering a few dozen dusty film canisters tucked away in a corner. Reels of some long-lost project from Francis Ford Coppola, or Bernardo Bertolucci, or Michael Cimino circa the mid-1970s reside in these tins, bearing all the hallmarks of the big-canvas epics these auteurs made in their heyday. The performances are reminiscent of that decade’s b…