RHUMBELOW FILM CLUB
ON THE BIG SCREEN

Cunningham Rd, Umbilo

BABYLON (2022)

Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, P. J. Byrne, Lukas Haas, Olivia Hamilton, Max Minghella, Rory Scovel, Katherine Waterston and Tobey Maguire.

6.30pm WED 07 AUGUST 2024 
(Venue opens 60 minutes before show for snacks/drinks)

Running Time:  189 min  (excluding 15 minute interval)

Public Screening licensed through
MPLC (Motion Picture Licensing Company). License No  5929
The Film & Publication Board -  Exhibitor License FPB8/2022/233051

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.

An original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, with an ensemble cast including Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li and Jean Smart. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.

Hollywood, 1926. Nellie LaRoy is trying to catch her first break as an actress. Manny Torres wants to do something in movies, anything as he believes filmmaking is the ultimate profession. Sidney Palmer is an unambitious young trumpeter whose happy to go wherever the music takes him. Jack Conrad is Hollywood's #1 leading man. Their lives and careers are about to be intertwined in maelstrom of ambition, breakthroughs, disappointments, changing technology and audiences and decadence. —grants

Bel Air, California, 1926. Wearing practically nothing, Nellie LaRoy, a streetwise nobody and brassy wannabe starlet, crashes an orgiastic, sex-and-drug-fuelled Hollywood party looking for her big break and a chance to shine. At the same time, starry-eyed Mexican kid Manny Torres is eager to do anything for a job on a movie set--the most magical place in the world. Then, there's Sidney Palmer, a brilliant up-and-coming African-American jazz trumpeter, and the captivating cabaret singer Lady Fay Zhu--both tiny cogs in the well-oiled movie industry. But they don't know it yet. And as Nellie becomes an overnight sensation and Manny crosses paths with silver-screen heartthrob Jack Conrad, the biggest A-lister of the silent era, the trio is about to discover how expendable stars can be. Because, cruel as it may sound, the allure of Tinseltown is irresistible and inescapable. Then again, so are the snares of Babylon. —Nick Riganas

Food available at the venue.

Attendance is restricted to

 RHUMBELOW FILM CLUB MEMBERS ONLY

(NO CHARGE)

Membership for JUL - DEC 2024 R 300-00

Guests R 100-00

Limited secure parking available    

Booking is essential. 

Bar Available

(no alcohol may be brought on to the premises)

Cell 0824998636          

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