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 ...

Judy Becker, a production designer who has worked on films such as Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Carol (2015), brought the universe of Toth to life. While Becker isn’t an architect, her job, she ...

Los Angeles Times columnist Glenn Whipp talks with Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones and Brady Corbet to get to the bottom of 'The Brutalist.' ...

Architects may groan at the depiction of their profession in “The Brutalist,” an enormously ambitious, epically scaled film about an imaginary Hungarian architect, László Toth. Played by ...

The protagonist is Laszlo Toth (played exceptionally well by Adrien Brody), a Bauhaus-educated modern architect. He is also more importantly Hungarian and Jewish, recently freed from Buchenwald ...

If the protagonist's name sounds familiar, that's because Laszlo Toth was the Hungarian-born Australian geologist who took a hammer to Michelangelo's Pietà in 1972.

BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: When Laszlo Toth staggers up to the ship's deck after his transatlantic voyage in 1947, leaving concentration camps behind, the first thing he sees is the Statue of Liberty.

The building’s interior proportions – odd, impractical – are vital, to the point the architect refuses to budge when he’s advised to change them. “I took it further than anyone knows ...

Brady Corbet's monumental drama, The Brutalist, chronicles the journey of a Jewish architect who comes to the U.S. in 1947 and creates a troubled and troubling masterpiece.

By Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — In a dark corner of a mansion in mid-century Pennsylvania, Erzsébet, a Hungarian immigrant rebuilding her life in ...