“Babylon” realized on the ultra-high definition disc format stuns and often makes up for the sluggish and depressing narrative.īest extras: Owners get the 4K disc without extras and an included Blu-ray disc with the digital goodies, but not a high definition version of the film. Those looking for more granular detail can inspect a tattoo of Conrad on a girl’s back, the subtle cracks on a terra cotta roof, counting the tears as Nellie cries on command, and the excess of vintage vehicles and more than 7,000 period costumes throughout. However, with those highs comes plenty of meandering lows as the second act slows to a crawl, and the third act then spirals into a student art film with a head-scratching, unsatisfying conclusion.Ĭlocking in at more than three hours, “Babylon” desperately needed an editor willing to challenge the director as the lengthy pacing afforded too much time for gratuitous chaos.ĤK in action: The presentation culled from a 4K digital intermediate, sourced from the original 35mm film format, offers a colorful and crisp journey highlighting an extravagant period production design.įor eye-popping grand scale moments check out panoramas from a stone mansion on a mountaintop during a purplish sunrise, varied movie sets embedded in a beige desert, a statue-lined garden, a sunset with rays of light piercing behind a mountain range, the stark white massive columns of a sanitarium, and Conrad looking at the ocean from a rocky beach.

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