Interview

Composer

“Babylon” Composer Justin Hurwitz Deconstructs His Oscar-Shortlisted Score

“I’m very obsessive, and I can only do one thing at a time, so when Damien has a movie to work on, I go all in.” That’s composer Justin Hurwitz talking about his ongoing collaboration with filmmaker Damien Chazelle, and clearly, the laser vision has paid off. Hurwitz started working on his Oscar short-listed score ...

By Hugh Hart  |  January 18, 2023

Interview

Production Designer

“Babylon” Production Designer Florencia Martin Conjures Hollywood’s Decadent Early Days

She designed Paul Thomas Anderson’s flashback to 1970s-era L.A. in Licorice Pizza and shaped the fifties look inhabited by Marilyn Monroe in Blonde. Now, production designer Florencia Martin takes viewers back to 1920s Hollywood in Oscar-winning writer/director Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, which immerses Margot Robbie’s Nellie LaRoy and Brad Pitt’s Jack Conrad in the gloriously decadent ...

By Hugh Hart  |  January 3, 2023
Best of 2022: How The “Babylon” Sound Team Built a Sonic Bacchanal

It’s that time of year—we look back on a few of our favorite interviews from 2022 in our annual year-end list. The opening sequence to Damien Chazelle’s Babylon (in theaters today) hits you like one of the many lines of powder its characters will ingest. It’s eye-opening, choreographed chaos, leaving you with an intensely euphoric ...

By Daron James  |  December 30, 2022
How The “Babylon” Sound Team Built a Sonic Bacchanal

The opening sequence to Damien Chazelle’s Babylon (in theaters today) hits you like one of the many lines of powder its characters will ingest. It’s eye-opening, choreographed chaos, leaving you with an intensely euphoric feeling – quite fitting for a story that revisits Hollywood’s infancy of the 1920s and ‘30s when La La Land was ...

By Daron James  |  December 16, 2022
“Babylon” Official Trailer Finds Brad Pitt & Margot Robbie Living the High Life

“I think what we have here in Hollywood is high art,” says Jack Conrad (Brad Pitt) in the official trailer for writer/director Damien Chazelle’s Babylon. Yet before Jack can finish his sentence, Nellie LaRoy (Margot Robbie) screams, “Party time, sparkle c*cks!” from atop the shoulders of some half-naked men, despoiling Jack’s make-believe vision of a proper, high-falutin’ ...

By The Credits  |  November 28, 2022
New “Babylon” Featurette Reveals Margot Robbie & Brad Pitt in Damien Chazelle’s Madcap Hollywood Drama

In Damien Chazelle’s latest film, the musically inclined director of Whiplash and La La Land turns his sights on the formative years in Hollywood, when debauchery, madness, and an unhinged sense that anything might happen was the prevailing vibe. Despite having not only pulled off the highly intricate La La Land and the riveting drama First Man, Chazelle says that Babylon is the most ambitious thing he’s ...

By The Credits  |  November 21, 2022
“Babylon” Trailer Reveals Brad Pitt & Margot Robbie Getting Wild in 1920s Los Angeles

Writer/director Damien Chazelle is one of the best in the business at threading music through his films, whether in brutal (but astonishing) fashion as he did in Whiplash or of the more elegiac, bittersweet variety as he did in La La Land. In his new, star-studded feature Babylon, Chazelle seems to have found a middle ground between the ...

By The Credits  |  September 13, 2022