Ignore all the whingers. Go to see the excellent The Brutalist. Take along an architect you hate. The film is 3½ hours long. They might actually explode with fury
Ignore all the whingers. Go to see the excellent The Brutalist. Take along an architect you hate. The film is 3½ hours long. They might actually explode with fury
Oliver Wainwright’s piece in Guardian points us towards a podcast in which various architecture critics explain “why the Brutalist is a terrible movie”. The article notes that, at one screening, a “leading figure from the 20th-century heritage movement” declared “It’s just utter tosh!”. We are left to assume this is an architectural rather than a cinematic complaint.
No doubt those architects raising objections to The Brutalist are sincere. But the truth is that any film about any profession will, for understandable reasons, cause those who know which nuts go on which bolts to roll their eyes in disapproval.Mark Sherman, a jazz faculty member at the Juilliard School, in New York, about the techniques used in Damien Chazelle’s Oscar-winning. Sherman didn’t like how JK Simmons’s character taught Miles Teller’s young musician.
Knoll’s Law, named for the US journalist Erwin Knoll, argues that “everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge”.
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