‘The Brutalist’ Cinematographer Lol Crawley Breaks Down Filming in VistaVision in an Active Marble Mine in Tuscany
variety.comBrady Corbet would shoot “The Brutalist” on. Cinematographer Lol Crawley says, “We’ve always shot on film.” “The Brutalist” tells the story of Hungarian Jewish architect László Tóth, played by Adrien Brody.
He escapes the Holocaust and moves to the U.S., where he gets a taste of the American dream after meeting a wealthy industrialist who changes his life.
Brady and Crawley researched architecture photography and examined how it had been photographed. Speaking with Variety’s Inside the Frame, Crawley says, “One thing that came across in photographing any sort of architecture, you tend to want to have minimal distortion from the lenses.
You may want to use rectilinear lenses so that you don’t get the same sort of distortion when you shoot a wide-angle lens.” The idea led Brady to choose the rarely used VistaVision film, a large format stock created by Paramount Pictures in the 1950s to improve image quality.
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