Brady Corbet on The Brutalist, Oscars & AI

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Sony Music

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv Reviews, Film Interviews

4.4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Brady Corbet, the now-Oscar-nominated director of ‘The Brutalist’, sits down with Simon for an interview this week. His much lauded and lengthy fictional biopic follows the life of László Tóth, a Hungarian architect who arrives in late-1940s America having survived the Holocaust, and finds his life changed once again when he picks up a commission from a wealthy industrialist. Brady chats to Simon about all those awards nominations, the empathy generating machine that is Adrien Brody, and the future of AI in the movie business. Reviews this week of ‘Companion’, a smart sci-fi horror about a holiday weekend gone awry for a couple who seem a little uncanny—and ‘Saturday Night’, Jason Reitman’s 70s-set tale of the origins of America’s now legendary Saturday Night Live comedy show. Plus ‘Hard Truths’, Mike Leigh’s family drama following Marianne Jean-Baptiste's scathing Pansy, an emotionally volatile woman grieving her mother and navigating wounded relationships with her sister, husband and son. Check out last week’s show to hear Simon’s interview with Marianne and Mike, who some of you may have noticed was feeling a tad grumpy at the beginning of the interview... Top takes from you too on what’s been on your screens this week, and of course, Mark’s Prime Ministerial quiff. Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free): Hard Truths Review: 09:40 Brady Corbet Interview: 26:27 Saturday Night Review: 45:52 Laughter lift: 51:53 Companion Review: 54:29 You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] And to find out more about Sony’s new show Origins with Cush Jumbo, click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Don't miss The Brutalist.
0:03.0	What do you think?
0:04.0	An electrifying cinematic experience.
0:07.0	Starring Adrian Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce.
0:12.0	Fate brought us together.
0:14.0	Winner of three Golden Globes and now nominated for 10 Oscars and 9 Bafters, including Best Film.
0:22.6	Welcome to America.
0:24.8	The Brutalist in Cinemas Now, rated 18.
0:41.9	So, Mark, I have a question for you.
0:42.3	Yes.
0:49.4	Where do you stand on the slightly prickly subject of gratuitous self-promotion?
0:50.4	Well, I'm all for it.
0:51.2	Oh? This is a visual joke. Yeah. Yeah. for it.
0:56.8	This is a visual joke.
0:57.7	Yeah.
1:01.2	I could read you from chapter 20.
1:02.6	The call came in two days.
1:03.6	8 a.m.
1:04.4	Number withheld.
1:06.4	What do you think of that as a as a line?
1:07.0	It's a, it's a great line.
1:08.1	It sort of draws you in.
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