Do Ho Suh: Walk the House, Tate Modern review - memories are made of this

★★★★ DO HO SUH: WALK THE HOUSE, TATE MODERN Memories are made of this

Home sweet home preserved as exquisite replicas

A traditional Korean house has appeared at Tate Modern. And with its neat brickwork, beautifully carved roof beams and lattice work screens, this charming dwelling looks decidedly out of place, and somewhat ghostly. Go closer and you realise that, improbably, the full-sized building is made of paper. It’s the work of South Korean artist Do Ho Suh (main picture).

theartsdesk Q&A: Oscar-winner Adrien Brody on 'The Brutalist'

Q&A: ADRIEN BRODY The Oscar-winner on what playing the architect László Toth meant to him

The much-garlanded actor on what playing the architect László Toth meant to him

Adrien Brody is on a roll. Following his Golden Globe and BAFTA Best Actor wins for his performance as László Toth in Brady Corbet's The Brutalist, Brody picked up the equivalent Oscar last Sunday, celebrating it by giving the longest speech in Academy Awards history.

The Brutalist review - we're building to something

★★★★ THE BRUTALIST An epic of American dreaming that baffles and mesmerises

An epic of American dreaming that baffles and mesmerises

There’s a moment, as we build to a climax in Brady Corbet’s first film, The Childhood of a Leader (2015), when a servant at a grand house unwittingly nudges a candle into the path of a dangling curtain pull. The tassel ignites, unseen by gathering dinner guests.

Then something happens that’s rare in the annals of film. In fact, nothing happens. The drapery is not particularly flammable and, unseen by anyone in a lingering wide shot, burns itself quickly out. This dog-that-doesn’t-bark, tree-falls-in-a-forest moment is, it turns out, signature Corbet.

Megalopolis review - magic from cinema's dawn

★★★★ MEGALOPOLIS Coppola's decades-in-making American epic is trippily, totteringly unique

Coppola's decades in the making American epic is trippily, totteringly unique

“What happens if you’ve overstepped your mandate?” aristocrat-architect Cesar Catalin (Adam Driver) is asked. “I’ll apologise,” he smirks. Francis Ford Coppola’s forty years in the making, self-financed epic is studded with such self-implicating bravado, including a wish to “escape into the ranks of the insane” rather than accept conventional thinking, as if at 85 he is not only Cesar but Kurtz, plunging chaotically upriver again, inviting career termination.

Charles Saumarez Smith: The Art Museum In Modern Times review – the story of modern architecture

★★★ CHARLES SAUMAREZ SMITH: THE ART MUSEUM IN MODERN TIMES The story of modern architecture

Former director of London's National Gallery explores recent architectural achievements

“This book is a journey of historical discovery, set out sequentially in order to convey a sense of what has changed over time.” Add to this sentence, the title of the work from which it is taken, The Art Museum in Modern Times, and you’ll probably have a reasonable sense of Charles Saumarez Smith’s latest book. Simple, effective – Smith presents us with a series of case studies of museums, placed in chronological order according to each’s unveiling.

Blu-ray: Visual Acoustics

★★★★ BLU-RAY: VISUAL ACOUSTICS 'The Modernism of Julius Shulman' salutes an eminent American architectural photographer

'The Modernism of Julius Shulman' salutes an eminent American architectural photographer

One of the world’s leading architectural photographers, Julius Shulman was the subject of a show at London’s Photographers’ Gallery this autumn, “Altered States of America”. That title surely alluded to the visual modernism that changed the face of that country over the course of the 20th century, which Shulman, working in close tandem with the architects concerned, captured over a career of almost eight decades, in California especially.

Rebuilding Notre-Dame: Inside the Great Cathedral Rescue, BBC Four review - a race against time

★★★ REBUILDING NOTRE-DAME: INSIDE THE GREAT CATHEDRAL RESCUE, BBC FOUR A year after the devastating fire, the cathedral's future is still uncertain

A year after the devastating fire, the cathedral's future is still uncertain

One year on the world is drastically altered, but footage of Notre Dame’s stricken spire collapsing in flames is no less shocking. That this event, endlessly replayed, has not paled against the new reality of daily death tolls is testament to the scale of the loss. As the rector of Notre Dame, Patrick Chauvet put it: “Notre Dame is not just Paris, it’s France and beyond France, it’s the world.”

10 Questions for Irina Nalis

10 QUESTIONS FOR IRINA NALIS Multidisciplinary thinking at a time of crisis

Multidisciplinary thinking at a multidisciplinary festival in a time of crisis

Normally we'd put a descriptor - "cellist", "film maker", "techno producer" for example - in the title of this interview, but for Irina Nalis there isn't space. Like, "10 Questions for psychologist, ministerial adviser, festival founder, architectural consultant, digital humanism activist and techno veteran Irina Nalis" wouldn't fit across the page. But that's the multidisciplinary world for you.

Bauhaus 100, BBC Four review - a well-made film about the makers

★★★★ BAUHAUS 100, BBC FOUR A fascinating centenary tale of God-like architects and punks

A fascinating centenary tale of God-like architects and punks

The Bauhaus school and its subsequent influence make an extraordinary story, and this film by Mat Whitecross, which has assembled a whole range of different voices and perspectives and woven them together, told it well.

My Enemy's Cherry Tree: Wang Ting-Kuo review - a masterpiece from Taiwan

★★★★★ WANG TING-KUO: MY ENEMY'S CHERRY TREE A masterpiece from Taiwan

A tense story of love doomed by power

Early every evening, Miss Baixiu comes to sit in an isolated café. She is the daughter of Luo Yiming, the respected employee of a successful commercial bank in charge of loans throughout central Taiwan. As a rich man, an aesthete and a philanthropist he enjoys status, power, acclaim. Since leaving his job, the owner of the café, our unnamed narrator, has consciously sought to reduce his life to the smallest confines.