Babylon (2022) and Everybody's Talking About Jamie (2021)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Damien Chazelle first started seriously considering a film about old Hollywood back in 2009, long before he made La La Land. And even when the writer/director had channelled his energies into that film, he still had Babylon in mind: a hugely ambitious, expensive, three hour film that needed an R-rating! In the case of Everybody's Talking About Jamie, the challenge with the hit stage show was bringing it to the big screen at some scale - in spite of a truncated budget. Then there was the small matter of a pandemic getting in the way too... Stories of both are told in this episode... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What kind of weekend are you in the mood for?
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0:24.0	Learn more at Disneyplus.com.
0:27.1	Hello, this is Simon Brew.
0:29.6	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine.
0:31.8	And if you're happy to stay awake for an hour,
0:33.9	here's the latest episode of the Film Stories podcast.
0:37.4	And I'm going to bed come with me and i
0:43.4	show you how deep the rabbit hole goes and movies movies that had stories that the story just
0:49.9	sucks a man this is just the beginning would be honoured if you would join us.
1:00.7	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
1:05.2	I am Simon Brew as always. That's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
1:08.8	The aim of the podcast though is given away by its title. I'm here to talk up the stories of films and I tend to talk about production stories,
1:15.0	development stories, release stories, marketing stories, all the ingredients really that go towards
1:19.3	making the films that we know and sometimes love. Just that, the films that we know and
1:24.1	sometimes love. The films I tend to cover on this podcast, they lean more towards
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