Brady Corbet visits us at Curzon Soho and talks about The Brutalist and the importance of filming on celluloid among other things for a new chapter of Conversations @ Curzon.
Brady Corbet’s latest epic film THE BRUTALIST, has been nominated for ten Academy Awards and nine BAFTAs. Now showing at Curzon.
Interviewer: Hannah Strong
0:00 intro
0:35 first experience in the cinema
1:10 favourite spot to sit in a cinema
1:45 The Brutalist intermission
5:27 your film as a piece of public art
6:45 celluloid screenings
8:20 Ed Lachman saving Kodak’s lab analogue equipment
10:08 choosing the right format for The Brutalist
11:25 shooting in VistaVision
13:50 the good use of digital and the stigma of shooting on celluloid
16:14 casting Adrien Brody
18:49 great actors playing bad actors
20:30 Corbet’s beginnings as a child actor
22:55 the film industry in the 1990s
23:44 the films in this year’s awards conversations
25:45 on Dune’s big budget
26:15 Denis Villeneuve’s short film and its influence on Corbet
26:50 is film a supportive industry?
27:45 the importance of awards for filmmakers