A24 has landed U.S. distribution rights to “The Brutalist,” a historical epic directed by Brady Corbet and starring Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones. The 215-minute movie (which includes an intermission!) debuted to acclaim at the Venice Film Festival before screening for buyers at the Toronto Film Festival. Multiple parties pursued the sale after “The Brutalist” […]

Brady Corbet’s historical drama “The Brutalist,” starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce, wowed Venice Film Festival on Sunday with a 12-minute standing ovation. Brody, who stars in the film as a Hungarian Holocaust survivor struggling to revive his career as an architect in the U.S., was overcome with emotion as the clapping raged […]

It’s three hours and 15 minutes long, it’s paced with a pleasing stateliness and overflows with incident and emotion — and it spins out the story of László Tóth (Adrien Brody), a Hungarian-born Jewish architect who journeys from Budapest to America after World War II, as if Corbet were making a biopic about a real person.

Brady Corbet, who is premiering his three-and-a-half hour historical drama “The Brutalist” at Venice Film Festival on Sunday, is shrugging off discourse around movie runtimes being too long. “This film does everything that we are told we are not allowed to do,” the director said during the film’s press conference. “I think it’s quite silly […]

At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be much common cause between Pablo Larraín’s anticipated Maria Callas biopic, “Maria,” starring Angelina Jolie as the titular opera singer, and Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist,” a 215-minute epic about a Holocaust survivor forging a new life in America. Though both films will premiere on the Lido at this […]