Babylon 4K UHD Steelbook [Blu-ray] [Region A & B & C]

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It was pretty much a darker version of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", even Margot Robbie was in both movies. accurate. Certainly, in some of the darker scenes, especially in the first act where warm lights and shadowy corners define the look of the party, the its sense of larger-than-life desire and limitless lust for life behind. The film tries to blend the retrospective turn on Hollywood broadly with stories of The other two featurettes are very short. Three minutes are devoted to the costumes, 7,000 of them, we are told. Just 90 seconds are given to the film score. Ten minutes of deleted scenes flesh out a few narrative points; the only one I think would add is Manny Torres’s assertion that he fired Lady Fay Zhu, not that she quit. Man, I don’t know. I like the period chosen to tell the story of these characters. There is certainly ample room to generate a multifaceted plot to encompass this critical period in Hollywood, while giving us palpable drama regarding the struggles they faced in the process. I feel like Chazelle went overboard in his efforts to paint a picture of the extravagance, depravity and unincumbered excess, that would eventually derail the lives of those who fell prey to the wiles of unbridled fame/wealth in Hollywood at that time.

In the general chaotic overstatement, the scenes meant to humanize Nellie don’t register strongly. Nellie surviving a rattlesnake bite in the throat doesn’t really register, either. That’s what happens with ‘reality’ is so flexible: will some critic claim that Babylon is really a subjective fantasy? Even as I write that I realize it may be a bit too harsh, and maybe it is just the runtime that hurts the film more than anything else. The film starts off booming with a massive Hollywood elite party filled with drugs, orgies, dancing and an elephant. It’s loud, boisterous and sets the stage for the film’s centric characters. From here we go to the silent soundstage of Hollywood and it’s fun to see everything being put together so closely, and we keep chugging along until things sort of begin to just continue forth at a slower pace and you realize that you’re only at the halfway mark of the movie. While there are a number of truly engrossing and fun moments, there are also times when you’re just waiting for the plot to move forward. particularly soaking in the opportunity to act with near limitless inhibition, whether she's acting within her part in a film-within-the-film orthe "last hurrah" of the silent era during a mesmerizing sequence in which various films are being shot in tandem, practically right next door to each

Babylon’s running time is longer than Spartacus, with no intermission. Bloating the third act is a near-literal Journey into Hell that feels like a new movie has begun, one directed by David Lynch. Tobey Maguire’s psycho gangster insists that Manny Torres meet a ‘future star’ by descending into a subterranean warren complete with a chained alligator guarding a passageway. It’s an extra helping of self-indulgent unpleasantness for its own sake. At over three hours in length, I would have expected a slow but, cohesive narrative, that built upon the innate layers of its subject matter. While there is some of that, more often than not, there is a scattershot nature to the proceedings that presents smatterings of intrigue, with respect to the differing perspectives as seen through the eyes of the primary characters. I did appreciate the depiction of the universal fragility found within each of them and, how for some, their hubris would simply not allow them to contend with the obvious handwriting on the wall. For others, it was simply a matter of the inevitability of the cards dealt and finding a way to survive. One cannot talk Babylon without talking about its excess and, indeed, its extreme excess. In some ways the film brings to mind The Wolf of Wall Street, certainly a film in a whole different league in Several years ago, I was reviewing Whiplash. I absolutely loved it. The performances, the visual style and even the subject matter in spite of me having not having a single ounce of musical talent. As it turned out, audiences did too. It garnered an Oscar win for J.K. Simmons. It also might be said that the most odd thing to recall about the follow-up film, La La Land, was that it “won” the Academy Award for Best Picture – but after the “glitch was fixed”, we know that the trophy went to Moonlight. I wasn’t too much of a fan of Chazelle’s next outing – First Man. I’m a fan of movies about space travel and the like, but this one didn’t really do it for me. Well we’re now treated to Hollywood, circa the roaring 20’s and they were called that for a reason. Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy (and long) night.The Costumes of Babylon (1080p, 2:51): As the title suggests, this piece goes in-depth (as in depth as it can in under three Movies are shown being filmed using sunlight for illumination, on canvas-covered open-air stages, a technique that by 1926 had been long abandoned. Even the crowded, multi-set silent shoots in Singin’ in the Rain are filmed on big interior stages.

other, with full orchestras off to the side and many people sacrificing life and limb, at times literally, in the name of the finished product. The For its presentation on Ultra HD Blu-ray Babylon was derived from film-based sources and finished on a 4K Digital Intermediate. Babylon follows an ambitious cast of characters -- The Silent Film Superstar (Brad Pitt), the Young Starlet (Margot Robbie), the Production Executive (Diego Calva), the Musical Sensation (Jovan Adepo) and the Alluring Powerhouse Performer (Li Jun Li) -- who are striving to stay on top of the raucous, 1920s Hollywood scene and maintain their relevance at a time when the industry is moving on to the next best thing. The main characters in this overhyped fantasy are ‘adapted’ from recognizable historical models, with an eye toward racial diversity. The 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release of ‘Babylon’ includes a few worthwhile extras which can all be found on the included Blu-ray Bonus Disc. Included on the release are a handful of ‘Deleted and Extended Scenes’ from the film (running approximately 9 minutes in length altogether) along with a few Behind the Scenes Featurettes that explore bringing the film to life and featuring interviews/comments with the cast and crew, plus behind the scenes footage and more. The included Featurettes are ‘A Panoramic Canvas Called Babylon’ (running approximately 31 minutes), ‘The Costumes of Babylon’ (approximately 3 minutes) and ‘Scoring Babylon’ (approximately 2 minutes).Calibrated with Calman color calibration software and Portrait Displays C6 HDR2000 colorimeter from Portrait.com)