Hollywood, memory and family: how The Fabelmans and Babylon both use music to evoke nostalgia
- Written by Gregory Camp, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland
IMDBThis year has seen the release of a varied collection of nostalgic films about film making. Damien Chazelle’s Babylon looks at the excesses of 1920s and 30s Hollywood; Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans explores the position of film in the director’s own childhood in the 1960s, and Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light is about a...



