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Damien Chazelle

January 2023

  • Margot Robbie, centre, in Babylon. AP

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Babylon review – Damien Chazelle’s messy, exhausting tale of early Hollywood

    Despite star wattage from Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt, ​the ​La La Land​ director’s ​overcooked portrait of a nascent Tinseltown is more hysterical than historical
  • A love letter to the movies … Brad Pitt and Diego Calva in Babylon.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Babylon review – Brad Pitt suaves through a grand hymn to golden age Hollywood

    Pitt and Margot Robbie, and many razzle dazzle setpieces, help lift a story in no hurry to engage with the true-life nastiness of its era
  • Diego Calva at the premiere of Babylon: ‘I want every day to be 48 hours long because I’m enjoying it so much.’

    Babylon breakout star Diego Calva: ‘I owe this role to Margot Robbie. Something happened between us’

    His smouldering looks enliven Damien Chazelle’s new Hollywood hedonism film, but life hasn’t always been easy. He talks about being catapulted into the big leagues – and leaving behind his struggles with depression

September 2022

  • The only way is excess … Margot Robbie in Babylon.

    Life through a lens: Spielberg’s latest leads triple-whammy of movies about movies

    It’s the subgenre beloved by insiders but often shunned by audiences. Can new films from Sam Mandes, Damien Chazelle and Steven Spielberg satisfy cinemagoers and awards voters?

May 2020

  • Morven Christie, Max Vento and Christopher Eccleston in The A Word.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The A Word, Isolation Stories, The Eddy; Trying; Homeland – review

  • This image released by Netflix shows Amandla Stenberg, left, and Andre Holland in a scene from “The Eddy.” The musical drama series is a collaboration between “La La Land” director Damien Chazelle and six-time Grammy Award winner Glen Ballard. (Lou Faulon/Netflix via AP)

    TV review
    The Eddy review – dark musical drama needs some jazzing up

January 2019

  • Rachel Weisz, left, and Olivia Colman in The Favourite.

    Oscar nominations 2019: Roma and The Favourite deserve acclaim, but no female directors is woeful

  • LIBRARY IMAGE OF THE FAVOURITE<br>Olivia Colman Film: The Favourite 30 August 2018 Director: Yorgos Lanthimos 30 August 2018 SAY96395 Allstar Picture Library/FILM4 **Warning** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of FILM4 and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To FILM4 is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company. Character(s): Queen Anne

    Bafta nominations 2019: fascinating Favourite continues its journey in the awards season sun

October 2018

  • First Man - film still

    Now you've seen it
    First Man: Ryan Gosling's abstract Apollo mission – discuss with spoilers

    The biopic of Neil Armstrong and the first moon landing has US patriots all fired up, but do Gosling and director Damien Chazelle achieve their objectives?
  • Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong in First Man. His ‘outwardly emotionless antihero seems to be lost in space even when down on Earth’.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    First Man review – an inner space odyssey

    Damien Chazelle’s drama about Neil Armstrong and the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing is a moving tale of loss and peril

    • Film talk
      'Fly me to the moon? No thanks': Ryan Gosling on First Man – video

    • Culture highlights of the week
      What to see this week in the UK

    • Observer New Review Q&A
      Damien Chazelle: ‘I liked doing something that was the polar opposite of La La Land’

September 2018

  • Composite: films awards clockwise from top left - If Beale Street Could Talk, The Favourite, A Star is Born and Roma

    Oscars 2019: who are this year's early frontrunners?

    With major festivals over and done with, speculation has begun over which films and performances might score with Academy voters
  • Ryan Gosling in First Man

    'If anyone can Maga, it is Nasa': how First Man's flag 'snub' made space political again

    The moon-landing movie has sparked a furore for failing to show the planting of a US flag. But Hollywood has a long, complicated relationship with the final frontier
  • Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin deploy the US flag on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.

    Neil Armstrong biopic not unpatriotic, say sons as Aldrin fuels controversy

    First Man does not show the astronauts planting US flag, sparking anger on the right – but second man’s views are unclear

August 2018

  • Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong in First Man

    First look review
    First Man review: Ryan Gosling shoots for the moon in Neil Armstrong biopic

  • First Man; Widows; Crazy Rich Asians; A Star is Born.

    Autumn arts preview 2018
    Heroes, villains and rebels: the biggest films of autumn 2018

July 2018

  • 2018, FIRST MAN<br>RYAN GOSLING Character(s): Neil Armstrong Film 'FIRST MAN' (2018) Directed By DAMIEN CHAZELLE 11 October 2018 SAW91748 Allstar/UNIVERSAL PICTURES **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of UNIVERSAL PICTURES and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company & can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To UNIVERSAL PICTURES is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Ryan Gosling astronaut biopic First Man picked to open Venice film festival

    Damien Chazelle’s film about Neil Armstong will premiere in Italy, with Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma chosen for New York film festival gala

February 2018

  • Best of 2017 … (clockwise from top left) Get Out, Personal Shopper, Moonlight, The Lego Batman Movie, The Handmaiden

    Best films
    The best films of 2017 so far

    La La Land and The Love Witch wove magic, Moonlight and Lion wrung out tears, while Get Out and Lady Macbeth got nasty. Plus, there were striking debuts, returns to form by seasoned directors and reunions for the Trainspotting rogues
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