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Mar 1, 2024 · Oscar winner Damien Chazelle confirmed on the “Talking Pictures” podcast (via World of Reel) that he is currently at work writing his new movie, which would mark his follow-up to 2022’s “ Babylon...
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Mar 1, 2024 · Damien Chazelle is weighing what that means for him following the box office failure of his big-budget film Babylon starring Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt and Diego Calva.
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Dec 13, 2022 · Paramount Pictures has signed a multiyear, first-look directing and producing deal with Damien Chazelle and producing partner Olivia Hamilton’s Wild Chickens Productions, the studio announced...
Dec 19, 2022 · RogerEbert.com spoke to Chazelle over Zoom about the movie industry’s mythology and self-sanitation, researching the wild antics of 1920s Los Angeles, the tragic loss of silent film artistry, and Hollywood as a voracious, unpredictably cruel machine.
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Babylon begins in 1926, when movies with synchronized sound are about to radically change Tinseltown — a transition Chazelle imagines felt like "a disaster scenario." For research, he devoured silent films such as Sunrise, Wings, The Docks of New York, and The Passion of Joan of Arc, which he considers the "last great gasp" of their era. "Comparing...
To nail down the look of Babylon, Chazelle sought out pictures of Southern California in the 1920s. "You're really struck when you look at photographs of how rural so much of Los Angeles still was, even in 1926. So much of it was literally wide-open," he says. "That dictated a certain visual style — shooting anamorphic, in a way where you really fe...
Chazelle aimed to capture all the "hubris and vision" of early Hollywood — as well as its "willful make-believe" — in everything from Babylon's sets to the costumes. "There's the weird incongruence of, amidst that [desert town] setting you have these crazy, pitched circus tents, and open-air movie sets sprouting up out of nothing, with vivid colors...
As with each of the director's past films (including First Man and Whiplash), Babylon's theme is the personal cost of success. But this time, he says, "what really fascinated me was trying to map that theme over a broad array of people, and a whole society at large, rather than just a single individual or pair of individuals," says Chazelle. Most o...
The film's title is a nod to its ultimate inspiration. Chazelle says he became interested in "stories about societies in transition" throughout history. "It's basically what the early film industry was, this makeshift society that had been built up really fast, in this kind of unbridled, reckless way. [Babylon] was a name used to describe Hollywood...
Apr 11, 2024 · A new film from Damien Chazelle is officially in the works as his follow-up to the ambitious and costly Old Hollywood epic “Babylon.”
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Aug 30, 2023 · At Barbera’s news conference, the jury president, the filmmaker Damien Chazelle (“La La Land”), dressed for maximum solidarity, donning a “Writers Guild on Strike!” shirt and a similar button...
