For 15 minutes in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, audiences are confronted with a still image. Adrien Brody, as immigrant architect Laszlo Tóth, stands with his bride outside a Budapest synagogue, surrounded by family.
On this month's The Bigger Picture, we explore that complexity, and talk with a Houstonian from Nigeria about his experience assimilating in America.
Pennsylvania's rich architectural history is in the spotlight with the Academy Award-nominated film The Brutalist, which tells the story of an immigrant architect’s journey to design his first American masterpiece in Doylestown.
Adrien Brody returns to Oscar-winning form as architect László Toth, a Holocaust survivor who arrives in America to start a new life.
After so many years of setbacks and threats, he keeps returning to his great new American building. It is torture; it is hell, but on he goes. In a Europe ravaged by wars, brutalism found a purpose in the relatively inexpensive and abundant nature of concrete and the need for large,
Nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Picture, Brady Corbet’s film – starring Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones – explores around the existential terrors of America, and clocks in at a garg
Director Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” is both intimate and epic. It is an intense exploration of one man’s complicated life during post–World War II in America. Corbet and his co-writer, Mona Fastvold,
The Childhood of a Leader was Corbet's first feature film as a filmmaker. He recently directed the historical epic The Brutalist, which won Best Director at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, and the Silver Lion at the 81st Venice International Film Festival. He also directed the musical drama Vox Lux.
Director Brady Corbet has defended the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in his award-winning film The Brutalist. In the epic drama, Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones play Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivors László and Erzsébet Tóth who emigrate to America in search of a better life.
The Brutalist' director Brady Corbet is defending the controversial use of AI to alter Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’ Hungarian accents in his acclaimed film
The director discusses the immigrant experience, his own origins and why America needs a movie about a sympathetic rightwinger