Melting away the winter blues. Brad Pitt and new flame Ines de Ramon soaked up the sun on a New Year’s Eve vacation amid their budding romance.
16.12.2022 - 11:07 / deadline.com
After enormous success and Oscars for films ranging from Whiplash to La La Land to First Man Director/Writer Damien Chazelle returned to an early dream project first envisioned 15 years ago, a no-holds barred look at early Hollywood, a time when not only movies were transitioning from silent to sound, but Los Angeles itself was booming from desert to bulging metropolis. People were caught up in a turbulent time of change, and it didn’t always work out for some. As witnessed in the resulting film and years of meticulous research, Babylon is a sight to behold, a decadent, free wheeling, at times even poignant look at a series of dreamers, stars, fringe players, and all who wanted a piece of a world that felt out of control, uninhibited, and full of promise – and downfall.
With more than 100 speaking roles and a widescreen full of extras, Chazelle has created a vision of Hollywood at the time that seems strikingly original, yet oddly appropriate from the man who viewed another set of dreamers in Hollywood through a more romantic and contemporary lens in La La Land, the film that would make him the youngest Best Director Oscar winner ever, garner 14 nominations, and win 6. He seems drawn to the intrigue of who drifts into this city, separated by several generations, but still finding L.A. a magnet. In Babylon it is breathtaking to see an untamed and adventurous new world transition to something that will be more controlled and business-like once it starts to talk, but the view from the top and the bottom before it gets there is a wild ride like no other in recent cinema.
That seems to be the goal here. Chazelle would host screening screenings in projection rooms of some of the most ambitious, risk taking films of all time
Melting away the winter blues. Brad Pitt and new flame Ines de Ramon soaked up the sun on a New Year’s Eve vacation amid their budding romance.
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It feels like the skeleton key to Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” is a line late in the film, when fallen star Jack Conrad (Brad Pitt) despairs of his latest picture, “It’s shit. A giant swing at mediocrity.” One gets a sense of the writer talking there, and not the character – that there is nothing on this earth worse than reaching for nothing.