Taking Everything to Extremes: A Conversation Between Michael Almereyda, Brady Corbet and Mona Fastveld on The Brutalist
“Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet.” So wrote the spectacularly good Brutalist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It’s a fair guess Brady Corbet and his longtime co-screenwriter Mona Fastvold have encountered this quote, and that they recognize the affinities between architecture and movies. Being good in either medium requires a sure knowledge of your materials, an ability to translate imagined designs into physical reality, to assemble and guide teams of inspired collaborators and to know or intuit more than a little about visual textures, space and light and how to move […] The post Taking Everything to Extremes: A Conversation Between Michael Almereyda, Brady Corbet and Mona Fastveld on The Brutalist first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.


“Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet.” So wrote the spectacularly good Brutalist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It’s a fair guess Brady Corbet and his longtime co-screenwriter Mona Fastvold have encountered this quote, and that they recognize the affinities between architecture and movies. Being good in either medium requires a sure knowledge of your materials, an ability to translate imagined designs into physical reality, to assemble and guide teams of inspired collaborators and to know or intuit more than a little about visual textures, space and light and how to move […] The post Taking Everything to Extremes: A Conversation Between Michael Almereyda, Brady Corbet and Mona Fastveld on The Brutalist first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.