'Babylon' with Damien Chazelle, Justin Hurwitz & more | Academy Conversations

'Babylon' Academy Conversation with Damien Chazelle (Director), Justin Hurwitz (Composer), Tom Cross (Film Editor), Mary Zophres (Costume Designer), Linus Sandgren (Cinematographer), and Florencia Martin (Production Designer).
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[@diegodelcuetogutierrez1005]

I hope that Margot get a nomination in Best Actress for her performance. SHE WAS AMAZING.

[@tomgebarowski8156]

If not Best Actress, then Supporting Actress. Pitt & Luna too!

[@lilmilontiktok]

Saw it yesterday. It was the most chaotic visual masterpiece I’ve ever seen.

[@nikitamohanan2124]

Writing and characterization was so damn superficial especially Manny's love for Nellie felt so random.

[@q-man323]

@@rajv9732 idk, it was pretty easy to follow for me.

[@PayneToTheMax]

@@rajv9732 Wrong. Best film of 2022 and something that is going to be widely misunderstood by people like you who don't understand film language. Go back to your endless superhero sequels and reboots and let the real cinephiles enjoy this one.

[@ahmetfarukaltundal6763]

@@rajv9732 no it tells so much. you didnt get it obviously

[@MamadNobari]

@@ahmetfarukaltundal6763 You realize that you can understand a movie and see what it was going for and still not like it right? Or is that such an outrageous idea to wrap your head around?

[@Brooklynbaby47]

The soundtrack is stuck in my head and those performances were superb Diego and Margot took this film from start to finish . 🔥 what a masterpiece!!

[@leftright1606]

Don’t care about what the critics says. I was touched.

[@dolamido8414]

This movie is a classic already, I can already tell that in 30 years people will go back to this movie like people went back for fight club etc almost like a period piece. Thry will talk about this movie in film school for sure.

[@imancooper6107]

This movie has all of the pieces you'd find in a masterpiece. It has a brilliant cast that delivers captivating performances, beautiful cinematography, and out of this world production design that you certainly don't see everyday.

[@Myst031]

3 of those four things are required for a masterpiece, but you forgot about the "is it actually any good?" piece.

[@harryom3497]

The story sucks but the execution and performances were great!

[@PayneToTheMax]

Like most truly visionary projects, 'Babylon' is destined to be misunderstood and polarizing for the next 10 years until detractors realize it really was That Masterpiece all along. Yes, I'll plant my flag now and compare the current spate of reactions to those of Kubrick's films, another visionary artist who spent much of his career being sorely misunderstood and unfairly maligned: initially the feelings of a new Kubrick film tended to be confusion, frustration, and a sense that the man was mired in self-indulgence. But then, as year after year after year passes, suddenly there forms a sea change in recognizing the works' latent genius. It happened with '2001', 'A Clockwork Orange', 'Barry Lyndon', 'The Shining', 'Eyes Wide Shut'... and it'll happen to 'Babylon'. Yeah, I'm saying it. Best film of 2022, and an early viable candidate for film of the decade if the divisive responses are any indication. The most divisive films always end up being the most important ones, whether you like it or not. ;)

[@Theprinceofsweden]

I had low expectations but this was an amazing film.

[@johnnash297]

Watched it x3 and each segment slows down the action in a good way. Each performance becomes a short film.

[@BonySopraneaux]

Babylon is an incredibly honest & amazing looking movie. A breath of fresh air for these times

[@user-jz4oz3bx3n]

I LOVED the movie. One of my favorite movies of 2022 👏

[@johnsailorsgoat]

Movie of the year and one of the best movies of all time!

[@jattij9025]

How...where is the logic in most of the scenes especially the intro of ramcharan,rearing animals in town without anyone knowing and animals in van making no noise till someone opens it...what ..not even a single clap till the end with a packed house...its only CG

[@syncops834]

@@jattij9025 that might be the least cohesive thing I’ve ever read

[@monkii5258]

@@syncops834 as cohesive as the film ahahaha

[@jjj0026]

I downloaded soundtrack immediately after watching movie.

[@tammyr1489]

I love love love this movie!

[@KW-vy1rf]

Lovely conversation. I wish it was longer!

[@adrianrammirez]

Man I’m bumped this film bombed in theaters. It’s so good!!😞😞

[@desssval]

Great cinematic experience, a boldly uncompromising masterpiece. I think it did not well at the box office because of the ending. Everyone you have grown to like and root up to goes down. If the movie had ended 20 minutes earlier with some vague hints of tragedy it could have been a hit. I hope Damien gets full backing for his future projects. He is great artist and visionary on a scale rarely seen since the rise of Coppola and Scorsese

[@kordellliming6843]

I will defend this movie until the day I die.

[@lilchaos4792]

No clue how this film didn't win Best Production Design and Best Original Score. Margot also should have been nominated Best Actress and Pitt for Best Supporting Actress over Brian Tyree.

[@deeve76]

No idea why mainstream critics didn't like it. Film was amazing.

[@julianmx13]

don’t know how many ‘Hollywood Movies about Hollywood’ movies I have left in me… but I love Damien Chazelle

[@BrianDanielSchwartz]

Yeah and he already made lala land

[@takethechance7422]

that's why the movie bombed hard at the box office. Audiences are over that type of movie.

[@Jake_Deagan]

@@takethechance7422or maybe it’s because 1) it’s a rated R movie, which automatically lowers its audience and 2) that it has only started reaching other countries. I’m from England and it only came out last Friday

[@takethechance7422]

@@Jake_Deagan So it did poorly because it's rated R? There's plenty of R rated movies that are huge hits at the box office lmao. And ok, great, it finally make it to the UK. Regardless, it was still a major flop here in America.

[@PayneToTheMax]

​@@takethechance7422 It did poorly because inbred, mainstream-viewing morons like yourself assumed this was "that type of movie" even though it is literally the complete inverse to everything you think it is. It is challenging, audacious, confrontational, free-wheeling, vulgar, and far too intelligent for people such as yourself to grasp onto. And that's fine, because people like you will always have your endless trash superhero sequels and reboots and Liam Neeson action-revenge horseshit films to fawn over. But you literally don't know what you're talking about in saying this is a standard "film-about-films;" it's not, and that's why film normies are being such crybabies about this. They wanted 'Once Upon A Time in Hollywood' but instead got a modern-day Fellini that spends most of its time tearing apart our illusions of Old Hollywood and pointing out the hypocrisies upon which so much of it has been founded. Does this sound like a 'typical' film-about-Hollywood to you? The polarizing responses to this film are no different than those of Kubrick's, which also tended to be box office bombs upon release. He spent much of his career being sorely misunderstood and unfairly maligned: initially the feelings of a new Kubrick film tended to be confusion, frustration, and a sense that the man was mired in self-indulgence. But then, as year after year after year passes, suddenly there forms a sea change in recognizing the works' latent genius. It happened with 2001, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut... and it'll happen to Babylon. Anyway, enjoy your capeshit!

[@carlacastillo3601]

The best Christmas present🤍

[@vladimirhorowitz]

I spent most of this clip thinking the cinematographer was Brad Pitt until he started speaking and they gave us a close-up on his face lol.

[@johndeignan2668]

Ending is extremely unique. SPOILERS: The film cinematically breaks the fourth wall!

[@AsadDelRey]

Yeah this movie was so visually stimulating. The ending was 🔥👌 i loved the breaking of the fourth wall.

[@olliemartinelli4034]

I don’t understand the hate towards all the big recent film projects. Once upon a time in Hollywood, The French Dispatch and now Babylon never get the reviews they deserve. I think people get way too caught up in the idea that a film has to tell a compelling and deep story that delves into the characters soul for 2 hours straight. Why can’t a film just be the experience of it? Why is it so hard to just get pleasure from looking at a series of chaotic images working in tune to music, colours, people, nature, style, beauty. The film’s main criticisms all seem to be linked to things the film isn’t even trying to show in the first place.

[@mellifluente]

Finally someone who understands ! As a french writer once said : there's stories everywhere, in cafes, in the streets, in prisons... that's not interesting in art ; what matters to me, it's style, a unique style

[@PayneToTheMax]

Yes Ollie, I have always been frustrated by the long-held notion that Style and Substance are somehow mutually exclusive, that a film whose central function is that of Form is suddenly a film without Substance -- even though that Form *is* the Substance. I don't understand why this is such a difficult notion for people to grasp, but it's also the reason why I literally cannot have a discussion about cinema with your typical mainstream viewer who sees maybe 10 films a year or something, and they're usually not very good in the first place. Film is the perfect medium for abstract representations of reality, but all mainstream audiences want are fluffy, easily digestible, formulaic narratives in which everything from symbolism to metaphor is spoonfed to them. Pathetic.

[@olliemartinelli4034]

@@PayneToTheMax fully agree. The same is true for any art medium essentially 🤷‍♂️

[@emiliobello2538]

This is a new Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

[@alexm2136]

But more annoying and derivative

[@dariussalepetru6770]

Or a new Mank

[@AngelofMusic04]

Or the coked out love child of "Singin' in the Rain" and "Boogie Nights".

[@latedoomer45]

Movie reminded me 95 Kusturica classic Underground maybe too much

[@roncinephile]

I think of this as Chazelle's Boogie Nights. Also was specifically tickled by the ripoffs from Gaspar Noe's Irreversible and Cinema Paradiso.

[@Myst031]

God he wishes this was Boogie Nights doesn't he.

[@roncinephile]

@@Myst031 Both musically driven ensemble pieces about California filmmaking. I'd call this just as good as Boogie Nights. No joke.

[@DurpyKraken]

@@Myst031 bro boogie nights isn’t even that great

[@Tapswap002]

Awesome

[@aminXlocale]

13mins only omg please they have to make a making of Babylon right...?

[@101RealTalker]

Can somebody please talk about the Tobey Maguire thing?

[@barryt2666]

Too bad Oscar's trend toward box office sales as a means of determining winners is where things tend to go. Not saying popular movies don't need adulation, since most people want to see them, but well written movies that flesh out their characters have the best to offer.

[@KBLive7]

I really enjoyed the film. I think it would have been more successful to focus more on the love story bt Manny and Laroy relative to the other scenes. The ending would have stung more and the plot would be more focused. That would've gotten it to masterpiece territory. As someone who loves cinema I still did enjoy this film alot

[@q-man323]

I interpreted it as a romance that never was. Manny loves LaRoy, but LaRoy is unable to love Manny, so she eventually runs away.

[@JULIASMITH-eg9kp]

❤😮 3:34

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

If it weren’t for the elephant shit and the pissing in the face at the start….. I’m guessing this movie would have a VERY different reaction than it currently does.

[@normap1229]

The new M night.

[@takethechance7422]

Jordan Peele is the new M Night.

[@DurpyKraken]

How? Dude continues to crank out high quality movies

[@Phil_Mitchell]

@@DurpyKraken Guy is a complete fraud. Whiplash is great but he hasn't come close to that movie since. The first 10 minutes of La La Land was great but everything else in that movie was so meh. First Man was boring. And now he's made this Trainwreck. The decline has been steep. People were way too kind to La La Land and First Man because he had the good will of making Whiplash, his only properly good movie. Now he's been exposed as a one hit wonder. La La Land was especially overrated.

[@DurpyKraken]

@@Phil_Mitchell well that’s completely subjective so I personally think he’s never put out a bad movie even if some aren’t as good as others

[@t.k.l.349]

This guy looks like Ted Bundy here...

[@Denis-89]

So another movie about movies and the golden age of movies? Really? How many can we watch?

[@jattij9025]

Dear OSCARS...RRR(2022) Film song "Naattu Koothu" is not a original song....listen to "Kannu rendum ranga rattinam "(2010-Kutty)tamil song and decide.....

[@jattij9025]

@Derek Dirk yes

[@cigarjefe]

This movie stunk. It will win Best Picture

[@syncops834]

You are the reason it won’t

[@MissPerriwinkle]

damien what were u thinking....this movie unlike ur others is so tacky. good cast does not mean the movie is good, alas.

[@MsLeilam]

Brad Pitt’s celebrity is out of control. People are pushing movies out of him and they’re NOT good movies anymore. Or appropriate. 😡

[@Phil_Mitchell]

Once Upon a time in Hollywood was good and it wasn't that long ago.

[@misterpowers5234]

Horrible film

[@dariussalepetru6770]

Yes! I don't like that film but I love in Babylon the Score and the Production Design

[@omergiguere2105]

What a wonderful film all the way around. Has elements of a Filini