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

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In fact, even with a three hour runtime, Chazelle frequently feels like he doesn't have the room to tell the whole story - a five hours epic dissection of this period in Hollywood history crammed into three hours courtesy of that aforementioned judicious editing. For the week of March 20th, Paramount Home Media Distribution will release Babylon (2022), Dragonslayer (1981) and Red Eye (2005) on Blu-ray and 4K UHD. Babylon – Limited Edition Steelbook comes with the standard 2-Disc Blu-ray edition and a redeemable digital code. As sincere, as moving and as crowd-pleasing as you might expect, so why does it feel like something's missing?

I loved this film from the opening 30 minutes which is so massive, over-the-top, excess that I felt the sweat and claustrophobia in the room. Tags: Brad Pitt, Chloe Fineman, Damien Chazelle, Diego Calva, Eric Roberts, Ethan Suplee, Flea, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, Lukas Haas, Margot Robbie, Olivia Wilde, Patrick Fugit, Phoebe Tonkin, PJ Byrne, samara weaving, Spike Jonze, Tobey McGuire. This is a rather rock solid making-of featurette with good interviews and some in depth notions about the times and production. We reviewed the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release of Babylon on an LG 55B7 Dolby Vision 4K Ultra HD OLED TV with a Panasonic DP-UB820EB-K Dolby Vision HDR10+ 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player. If you do choose to stick it out, you find yourself in the company of a number of questionable individuals - celebrated Hollywood star Brad Pitt's Jack Conrad, aspiring starlet Margot Robbie's Nellie LaRoy, Chinese-American lesbian cabaret singer Li Jun Li's Lady Fay, African-American Jazz trumpeter Jovan Adepo's Sidney Palmer and, caught up in the middle of it all, Diego Calva's Mannie Torres, a Mexican immigrant who finds himself in the right place at the right time.Dynamics: Babylon features a bumping and thumping Atmos track that really knows how to paint a room and also contrast with big hits from scene to scene. This film was made for cinema and I'm sad I didn't see it on a huge screen rather than my own modest widescreen TV.

And one way to keepsake it or check it out is the 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray edition that is arriving on March 21st. That’s the wild ride that was Damien Chazelle’s Babylon just a few months back during the holiday season. When Hollywood tried to strip that away from him, in a heartbreaking and uncomfortable moment as you watch him play in pain and humiliation, the payoff is worth it and makes you happy. Unsurprisingly for such a recent - and such a distinctively visual - big budget production, Babylon looks stunning, revelling in the decadent trappings of the perfectly reimagined period environments, with the gaudy orgy excesses looking wildly opulent, and every minute detail lapped up and slapped on screen. Later in the film a particular character projectile vomits (Exorcist-like and copiously) all over people and furnishings at a swanky event.

This 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray release of the film features a stunning looking and sounding disc that features some solid extras with a surprisingly very informative 30 min featurette.

Paramount's 4K disc is a stunner - outstanding native 4K with Dolby Vision HDR, and a stunning accompanying Atmos track - and only adds to the immersion, rounded out with a few extras, and making for a recommended release for fans of the film who are up for a rewatch. It's a hell of a pre-credits hammer-blow, not just setting the tone but almost making the antics of the rest of the film positively tame by comparison.

Jack Conrad (Brad Pitt)'s star is waning while Nellie LaRoy (Margot Robbie) is about to make it big.