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Babylon's Damien Chazelle breaks down one of Total Film's scenes of the year – the Bel Air Bacchanal

Exclusive: Damien Chazelle shares some insight into this key Babylon scene

Total Film

5 Years Ago, a Divisive Director Made an Underrated Space Epic — And Rewrote History

It’s time we all give director Damien Chazelle's Neil Armstrong biopic the acclaim it deserves. In honor of its five-year anniversary, here's why Chazelle and Ryan Gosling's collaboration is an underrated American masterpiece.

Inverse

Venice film festival: T-shirts replace red carpet glitz as striking stars lie low

Support for the Hollywood strikes is evident as festival hopes its strong line-up makes up for lack of glamour

The Guardian - UK

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I'm Obsessed With How Obsessed The Internet Is With Margot Robbie In The Underrated Babylon

It's hard not to obsess over the internet's obsession with Margot Robbie in Damien Chazelle's underrated film, Babylon.

Cinemablend

9 best Ryan Gosling movies to watch on Netflix, Max, Hulu and more

Ryan Gosling is more than just Ken — these are the 9 best movies starring the Canadian actor and where you can stream them.

Tom’s Guide

Stephen King Loved Babylon, Seems To Think Margot Robbie’s Movie Will Be A Cult Classic

Stephen King loved Babylon so much that he thinks the Margot Robbie movie will eventually be deemed a cult classic.

Cinemablend

Did the Romans and Greeks really enjoy orgies?

Orgies conjure in our imagination the world of Greek and Roman Antiquity, thanks to more or less titillating films portraying debauched emperors, or maybe specifically Fellini’s Satyricon. The term is also used today to signify all sorts of excess. For us, the orgy stands for the ultimate celebration of the…

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A Timeline Of Ryan Gosling's Most Memorable Characters Over The Years

Ryan Gosling has played many memorable characters leading up to his work as Ken in Barbie.

Cinemablend

Review: 'Beau Is Afraid' earns its place in the mommy issues hall of fame

Beau knows psychodrama.

Tribune News Service

7 best new to Prime Video movies that are 90% or higher on Rotten Tomatoes

April 2023 sees 7 new to Prime Video movies with critical acclaim that are worthy additions to any watchlist.

Tom’s Guide

Streaming: Babylon and the best films about Hollywood

Damien Chazelle’s three-hour ode to Tinseltown debauchery joins classic films about Hollywood from Sunset Boulevard to Barton Fink and Adaptation

The Guardian - UK

Hollywood, memory and family: how The Fabelmans and Babylon both use music to evoke nostalgia

This year has seen the release of a varied collection of nostalgic films about film making. Damien Chazelle’s Babylon looks at the excesses of 1920s and 30s Hollywood; Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans explores the position of film in the director’s own childhood in the 1960s, and Sam Mendes’ Empire of…

The Conversation

La La Land to be adapted into Broadway musical

Oscar-winning 2017 film starred Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone

The Independent UK

La La Land musical set to open on Broadway

Damien Chazelle’s Oscar-winning film will be transformed into a stage show featuring music from the same team

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The nightmarish underside of the dream factory: how Babylon captures Hollywood in the 1920s

In his latest film, Babylon, director Damien Chazelle presents a very different vision of the home of America’s motion picture industry than he did in his Oscar-winning 2016 film, La La Land.

The Independent UK

Margot Robbie requested one change to Babylon’s ‘insane’ cocaine-snorting scenes

‘They would rack up lines of coke that were the size of hotdogs’

The Independent UK

Margot Robbie requested one change to Babylon’s ‘insane’ cocaine-snorting scenes

‘They would rack up lines of coke that were the size of hotdogs’

The Guardian - UK

Babylon review – Damien Chazelle’s messy, exhausting tale of early Hollywood

Despite star wattage from Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt, the La La Land director’s overcooked portrait of a nascent Tinseltown is more hysterical than historical

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The Independent UK

Babylon review: Damien Chazelle’s debauched masterpiece has orgies, elephants, spanking and Margot Robbie

Tailor-made to divide audiences, this is the ‘La La Land’ director’s rocket-powered rebuke to claims he’s too sentimental

Evening Standard

Diego Calva: the Babylon star on living with Margot Robbie and opening doors for Mexican actors in Hollywood

‘We used to think the Twenties was sanitised, but this was the wild, wild, wild west’

ABC News

Babylon: Damien Chazelle's poison pen letter to Hollywood feels masturbatory in its performative self-flagellation

Babylon, the latest from the director of La La Land, Damien Chazelle, stars Robbie, Brad Pitt, an elephant and a mountain of cocaine. But is it more a pile of dung?

France 24

Film show: Brad Pitt in Paris for 'Babylon' premiere

From Brad Pitt attending the Paris premiere of Damien Chazelle's Hollywood epic "Babylon", to the Lumières Awards (the equivalent of the French Golden Globes) and a tribute to the late Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida, film critic Lisa Nesselson talks to Eve Jackson about the week's film news.

ABC News

How Margot Robbie's dreams of making it in Hollywood shaped her role in Babylon

In Margot Robbie's latest film Babylon, she plays Nellie — a dreamer trying to make it big in Hollywood. It's something the actor can relate to.

The Independent UK

‘Are we allowed to show that?’ Margot Robbie is surprised she ‘got away’ with ‘mad’ Babylon orgy scene

‘It was like ‘La Dolce Vita’ and ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ had a baby,’ Margot Robbie said about scene in new Damien Chazelle movie

Daily Mirror

Margot Robbie collapses at cocaine-fuelled orgy in new movie... and wrestles a snake

Babylon, which stars Hollywood A-listers Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt, charts the shift between silent films and the talkies in an era of decadence and debauchery

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