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For Bob Dylan and Lazslo Toth, Jewish reinvention has its limits
For 15 minutes in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, audiences are confronted with a still image. Adrien Brody, as immigrant ...
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How ‘The Brutalist’ built architect László Tóth — inside and out
In a dark corner of a mansion in mid-century Pennsylvania, Erzsébet, a Hungarian immigrant rebuilding her life in America, pores over the contents of a desk. Scattered across it are sketches and ...
Meet the real László Tóths: 14 midcentury wonders around Philadelphia, and the architects who created them
Modern European architectural ideas landed in Philadelphia in the middle of the last century, making it a center of modern design. But unlike in the movie The Brutalist, there was no singular ...
‘The Brutalist': Production Designing László Tóth's Monumental Institute as Tragic Autobiography
Production designer Judy Becker channeled Adrien Brody's Brutalist architect to create a towering building symbolizing his ...
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The Brutalist Trailer Will Have You Googling László Tóth
If you were psyched for the release of the long-awaited biopic of László Tóth, the Hungarian geologist who infamously vandalized Michelangelo’s Pietà statue in 1972, or László Toth the ...
‘The Brutalist’ Revives a Classic Movie Theater Tradition
But it works.”The movie follows visionary architect László Toth, who escapes post-war Europe and arrives in America “to ...