As they scout the mines of Carrara to find marble for their gargantuan Pennsylvania monument, Hungarian architect László Tóth (Adrien Brody) and his brooding American financier Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce) stumble into an isolated corner of a cave — and,

The Australian actor digs into his role as a wealthy industrialist opposite Adrien Brody in Brady Corbet’s acclaimed mid-century American epic.

Stefan Pape interviews Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce & Joe Alwyn on The Brutalist - the genius of Corbet, Jedi-influences & hiding in cupboards.

Even before she met The Brutalist director Brady Corbett, production designer Judy Becker secretly hoped she could work with him. The post How Production Designer Judy Becker Did The Brutalist on a Budget appeared first on MovieMaker Magazine.

It takes more than just length for a film to become an epic but at 215 minutes, plus a fifteen-minute interval, The Brutalist meets that first requirement. It also needs to be about something greater than just the domestic travails of its characters and it ticks that box, too.

“The Brutalist” is a moving work of art that captures the deep pain of dispossession and the long-lasting mental scars of the Holocaust on the Western world in increasingly subtle ways until a final denouement provides a coda sure to haunt the audience for a long time to come.

The fictional movie, set in the 1950s and '60s, centers around architect László Tóth (Adrien Brody), a Hungarian immigrant to the United States and a Jewish Holocaust survivor.

The further “The Brutalist” progresses along its 215-minute track, the more evident it becomes that co-writer/director Brady Corbet sees himself in his protagonist, László Toth (Adrien Brody), the overlooked genius who seeks to reform modern architecture away from its ugly preconceptions and must put himself through the wringer to prove the doubters.

Marquee Arts cinema program director, Nick Alderink, has returned from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. He screened a good number of films with an eye towards bringing them to the big screens in Ann Arbor.

The cast of ‘The Brutalist’ discusses the Oscar-nominated film directed by Brady Corbet and the idea of the American Dream.

In digging into Van Buren, Pearce was guided less by real-life experience than the script. The hardest entry way to the character, he says, was the voice. “Thankfully,” Pearce says, “I’m friends with Danny Huston and he’s got a wonderfully old-fashioned voice.” He and Corbet didn't speak much about the director's hardships on “Vox Lux.”

Ben Johnson's comments and his hiring of Dennis Allen point to one place the Bears could finally decide to get serious about fixing in the draft or free agency.