Director Brady Corbet and cinematographer Lol Crawley say they can’t take credit for their favorite shots in The Brutalist. The longtime collaborators shot their three-and-a-half hour epic on 16mm while also employing the VistaVision celluloid format—very rarely used in movies over the past half-century—but opted not to storyboard it. From beginning to end, they were open to discovery, trusting that their innovative method of filmmaking would yield some unexpected magic.
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