Tomasz Wolski’s documentary “The Big Chief,” which world premiered this week at Visions du Réel, follows the life of Soviet spy ringmaster Leopold Trepper. Variety speaks to Wolski about ...

Lest the headline scandalizes you, this is not an apology for the Soviet Union or its centrally (and badly) planned economy and gulags. So please indulge me. The world, rather two of the most ...

MANILA, Philippines — After World War II and past the peak of Art Deco, Brutalist architecture reached the Philippines. The movement aimed to use raw, unadorned materials like exposed concrete ...

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In second place for award count was “The Brutalist,” with three awards. The most notable was Adrien Brody, winning best actor. Brody delivered the best performance of the year, so seeing him ...

Arising from a concrete garage, Trilogy House’s rectilinear massing, triple-pane glazing, and vertical wood batten feel nearly commercial next to the traditional residential homes in Portland ...

“Did you watch The Brutalist? That movie is hard as fuck,” Scott remarked. “I hope he wins Best Actor. That’s my dog.” “I ran into him at a fashion show recently, and I’ve always ...

In the Soviet Union, this control was not limited to symbolic gestures – it reshaped the entire academic system. Under Josef Stalin, academic survival depended less on scholarly merit than on ...

Two decades ago, Russian American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak coined the term “hypernormalisation” to describe the absurd and surreal reality of the Soviet Union during its final two decades.

The Bath Building — a mysterious, many say ugly, white cube near North Carolina’s Legislative Building in downtown Raleigh — is coming down. Contractors have begun ripping off the concrete ...

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Henry Cavill are among the actors rumored to be in the running to play James Bond Dimitrios Kambouris/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty; Pascal Le Segretain/Getty; John ...