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Trailer Watch: Damien Chazelle’s Babylon
The uncensored trailer has arrived for Damien Chazelle‘s fifth feature, the Hollywood Jazz Age epic Babylon. Charting the transition from silent films to “talkies,” the film follows several characters who experience a dramatic rise and fall during this era of unbridled excess and hedonism. Babylon boasts an enormous ensemble cast, starring Diego Calva, Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt and featuring Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, Jean Smart, Tobey Maguire, P.J. Byrne, Lukas Haas, Ethan Suplee, Olivia Hamilton, Jeff Garlin, Max Minghella, Eric Roberts, Rory Scovel, Katherine Waterstone, Flea, Olivia Wilde and Samara Weaving. Paramount Pictures will release Babylon in select theaters […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Sep 13, 2022 -
The Invention of Paramount Pictures
The Media History Digital Library is a goldmine of information about early cinema, the sorts of magazines, journals, and trade publications that, in the pre-digital era, had only been available to those able to travel to research libraries. At over 800,000 scanned pages and growing, the collection is daunting, and what I plan to do in Time Frames, a five-part series, is cull through and select a series of images and text from the collection to highlight key transformative moments in the film culture and industry, as well as other oddities and obscure artifacts. It’s perhaps impossible for us not […]
by Nicholas Rombes on Sep 5, 2013
