Weeks before The Brutalist sparked a debate over its use of generative AI, director Brady Corbet spoke with CBC’s Eli Glasner about why casting Adrien Brody was a 'no-brainer' and the challenges of portraying architecture in the 10-time Oscar-nominated film.

The Brutalist”—starring Adrien Brody—finally gets a wide release following 10 Oscar nominations. What do critics have to say about director Brady Corbet’s historical epic?

Adrien Brody—in a year when Timothy Chalamet sang, learned guitar and played harmonica winningly as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown—deserves a second Oscar for this 3 1/2-hour epic.

Brady Corbet’s work as an actor is familiar to me, it goes back a way, but as a writer-director the only picture of his I’ve watched was the Natalie Portman pop-star drama Vox Lux. This couldn’t be more different.

An emotional epic, it traces the course of one man’s efforts to rediscover his identity and place in society, taking its time to consider myriad aspects of his resurrection.

Brady Corbet and his film The Brutalist are the talk of the town right now in the world of film. This sprawling epic film is attracting audiences in surprisingly strong numbers—especially for a 215-minute film—and sweeping awards shows aplenty,

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,

Oscars: How to watch every movie nominated streaming or in theaters, including "Wicked," "Emilia Perez," and "The Brutalist."

Over the years, Guy Pearce has been good in most all things. But he’s been particularly good at playing characters with a refined disposition who harbor darker impulses underneath.

In wake of controversy surrounding its use of artificial intelligence, the Brady Corbet film landed 10 Oscar nominations.

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The story follows two decades in the life of fictional architect Tóth, a Jewish Hungarian immigrant who escapes post-World War II Europe only to find new horrors and struggles in the United States as his complex and troubling relationship with a powerful Pennsylvania industrialist manifests itself into Tóth’s newest and greatest creation.