Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” captures 1920s Hollywood in all its decadence, debauchery and excess. Filming on dusty backlots and in sumptuous mansions, Chazelle creates a fever dream of vintage filmmaking through a contemporary lens. But before looking at history through his own lens, Chazelle started out by doing months of intensive research, finding inspiration in real-life Hollywood stars, powerbrokers and events. And in many cases, the early days of moviemaking were pretty scandalous.
“The reality is that these people were operating in a no-holds-barred kind of world where an entire industry and city were being built from the ground up, and that takes a certain kind of madness,” Chazelle has said.
The 1920s in particular were a freer time, says “Tinseltown” author William J. Mann. “There was an incredible freedom before the production code was established, and so people had a much freer sense of how they could live their lives.
“The reality is that these people were operating in a no-holds-barred kind of world where an entire industry and city were being built from the ground up, and that takes a certain kind of madness,” Chazelle has said.
The 1920s in particular were a freer time, says “Tinseltown” author William J. Mann. “There was an incredible freedom before the production code was established, and so people had a much freer sense of how they could live their lives.
- 12/23/2022
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Babylon Review — Babylon (2022) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Damien Chazelle and starring Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Flea, Olivia Wilde, Tobey Maguire, Samara Weaving, J.C. Currais, Jimmy Ortega, Marcos A. Ferraez, Shane Powers, Phoebe Tonkin, Troy Metcalf, Jovan Adepo, Hansford Prince, Telvin Griffin, Cutty Cuthbert, Albert [...]
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- 12/17/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
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