{"id":1566,"date":"2025-11-07T03:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wichitafilms.com\/?post_type=films&#038;p=1566"},"modified":"2025-11-07T03:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:59:23","slug":"hollywood-babylon","status":"publish","type":"films","link":"https:\/\/www.wichitafilms.com\/en\/films\/hollywood-babylon\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Babylon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"flex-basis:66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Trailer Hollywood Babylon\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1134469261?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Before morality descended upon Hollywood in 1934, the movie capital looked a lot like Sodom and Gomorrah. Damien Chazelle\u2019s film <em>Babylon<\/em> evokes that wild era when the film industry was steeped in scandal\u2014orgies, murders, mafia, drugs\u2026 nothing was off limits. The Roaring Twenties were unbridled: jazz, illegal alcohol, liberated women, and risqu\u00e9 films by the dozens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hollywood was churning out up to 700 films a year, exploring without restraint adultery, homosexuality, corruption, and abortion. On screen, actresses appeared in transparent lingerie; behind the scenes, stars were entangled in sordid affairs like the Fatty Arbuckle scandal or the murder of William Desmond Taylor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faced with such debauchery, puritan America reacted: churches, the press, and moral leagues united against the \u201cdirty movies.\u201d To avoid federal censorship, studios established a \u201ccode of good conduct\u201d led by William Hays. Yet even after these first attempts at moralization, the Great Depression pushed studios to double down on provocations to fill empty theaters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flamboyant and sultry pre-Code years came to an end in 1934 with the strict enforcement of the Hays Code. But Hollywood, true to its rebellious spirit, would continue to outsmart censorship\u2014with wit and talent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"flex-basis:34%\">\n<p><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Filmmakers : <b>Clara Kuperberg &amp; Julia Kuperberg<\/b><br>Production : <b>Wichita Films<\/b><strong> <\/strong><br>In association with : <strong>Kali Pictures<\/strong><br>Producers : <b>Clara Kuperberg &amp; Julia Kuperberg<\/b><br>Co producer : <strong>Martine Melloul<\/strong><br>Network : <strong>Histoire TV<\/strong><br>Year : <strong>2025<\/strong><br>Distribution : <strong>Prime Entertainment Group<\/strong><br>Running Time : <strong>52 minutes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator grey\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3>Casting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Damien Chazelle<\/b><br>Film Director <em>La La Land, Babylon&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tony Maietta<\/strong><br>Film Historian<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Emily Carman<\/strong><br>Film Teacher Chapman University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator grey\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pink-color has-text-color\">\ud83c\udfc6 <strong>Best Historic Documentary, Hollywood Park Film Festival 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before morality descended upon Hollywood in 1934, the movie capital looked a lot like Sodom and Gomorrah. 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