London’s ‘ugliest’ brutalist estates where flats cost £1,000,000

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London’s ‘ugliest’ brutalist estates where flats cost £1,000,000

Devotees of brutalism are desperate to snap up these ‘ugly’ flats in the capital (Credits: Getty Images) With three Golden Globes under its belt already and 10 Oscar nominations, The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody, is shaping up as a modern classic, taking over $37million globally at the box office since its release. Its story, of Hungarian-Jewish architect László Tóth bringing modernist design to the US after World War II, is fictional. But i…

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<em>The Brutalist</em>: A Holocaust survivor reclaims his life

There are striking images and certain convincing performances, but on the whole the filmmakers seem very much out of their depth. The work is starved of genuine historical and social insight.

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The multiple Oscar-nominated, critically acclaimed "Brutalist" allows the image surface to change wildly. But how does it work in the cinema? Filmfredag received a question from a cinemagoer who missed masks on the screen in dark scenes. Mårten "Filmdoktorn" Blomkvist explains the concepts.

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Who is the real “Brutalist”? Aspen icon Hebert Bayer is among Oscar-nominated film’s Bauhaus inspirations.

There is no single historical model for the fictional Bauhaus-trained architect and American immigrant in “The Brutalist,” which is nominated for 10 Academy Awards in Sunday’s ceremony. Among its inspirations is Herbert Bayer, whose life and work in Aspen from the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s informs aspects of the fictional “Brutalist” played by Oscar-nominated Adrien Brody in this swaggering cinematic epic. The Bayer-designed Aspen Institute cam…

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What’s on at Pontio in Bangor this week 2.03.25 – 8.03.25

Watch Big Films on the Big Screen at Pontio in Bangor. Bangor Aye Film of the Week: The Brutalist (18) Showing Friday 7 – Thursday 13 March Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. Don’t Miss: Hard Truths (12A) 3-6 March and last chance to watch Bridget Jones: Mad About …

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In the early hours of Monday (Spanish time), Brady Corbet will compete for three awards, the golden statuette for the best film, the best script and the best director for his extraordinary work in The brutalist, among other things because although due to its epic structure seems to have cost a real fortune, it was made as an independent cinema, with a budget that did not reach 10 million euros. His defeat in the prizes of the Trade Union of Dire…