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Dec 19, 2022 · Babylon. Damien Chazelle is obsessed with the punishing pursuit of perfection. Whether it's finding an immaculate tempo, hurtling into space, or making it big in Hollywood, his films feature characters who are willing to endure physical and emotional torture to reach the finish line. If "La La Land" was his wide-eyed, sentimental look at the ...
Dec 23, 2022 · Spike Jonze’s yelling and gesticulating director is said to be German—I thought he sounded Italian—but that certainly might be an Erich von Stroheim reference.
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Dec 23, 2022 · By Hilary A. Hallett. Dec 23, 20225:45 AM. Paramount Pictures. Babylon tracks the rise and fall of the men and women who transformed the American film industry into the mass-culture Goliath known ...
Dec 27, 2022 · Margot Robbie’s character, Nellie LaRoy, is a gifted flapper who takes Hollywood by storm. Like Clara Bow, a vivacious young star who built her reputation playing the bad girl, Nellie struggles ...
Jan 31, 2023 · Babylon’s introduction to silent-era moviemaking is a sequence that intercuts between two productions.One is a cheap feature being shot by director Ruth Adler (Olivia Hamilton) on a makeshift ...
Dec 27, 2022 · The film feels like a dramedy mostly, yet a few scenes feel like a low-budget horror film, even thriller-esque. Babylon does a great job at showing a few things: the biggest is the huge challenge that it was to shoot these “talkies,” and the annoyances that came with sound.
Wearing practically nothing, Nellie LaRoy, a streetwise nobody and brassy wannabe starlet, crashes an orgiastic, sex-and-drug-fuelled Hollywood party looking for her big break and a chance to shine. At the same time, starry-eyed Mexican kid Manny Torres is eager to do anything for a job on a movie set--the most magical place in the world.
