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‘The Brutalist’ Cinematographer Lol Crawley Praises ‘Pragmatic’ Brady Corbet: ‘He’ll Cut His Cloth and Find a Way Through It’
Cinematographer Lol Crawley says Brady Corbet was able to shoot 'The Brutalist' for just $10 million because he is a 'pragmatic' director.
“If somebody tells him we can’t afford [something] and he knows he wants it, he finds where he can take the money from to make it work,” Crawley continued, going on to recall an episode in “The Brutalist” where the building chosen to serve as the house of the Van Buren family didn’t feature a bedroom, despite several scenes in the script mentioning one. Corbet’s long-gestating three-hour epic about visionary Jewish architect László Tóth (Adrien Brody), who escapes postwar Europe to try to rebuild his life in America, landed 10 nominations at this year’s Oscars, including best picture and best cinematography for Crawley. At the two-hour extended talk event at Rotterdam, the DP spoke about shooting some key scenes in the film, including a side-angled shot of the Statue of Liberty Variety’ s Owen Gleiberman called “riveting” and has been widely lauded by critics.
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