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

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How ‘The Brutalist’ built architect László Tóth — inside and out

The tortured architect in Brady Corbet’s film required a powerhouse performance from Adrien Brody. The Oscar winning actor and production designer Judy Becker share how they crafted the character – and his creations.

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By Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — In a dark corner of a mansion in mid-century Pennsylvania, Erzsébet, a Hungarian immigrant rebuilding her life in America, pores over the contents of a desk. Scattered across it are sketches and technical drawings for a civic building, a grand folly designed by her husband László, for the wealthy patron whose home they now share. “What are you doing?” László says, walking in. “I’m looking at you,” his wife replies. Ye…

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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,”…

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

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…

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

Brady Corbet’s new film aims to reframe our understanding of Brutalist architecture — and the American dream.

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In ‘The Brutalist,’ the Suffering Is the Point

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…

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

Some five centuries ago, the artist Michelangelo spent months sourcing 100 tons of marble from the quarry of Carrara only to discover that his patron,...

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