Director-writer Damien Chazelle, of "Whiplash" and "La La Land" fame, is at the point in his career where he can do what he wants, and apparently what he wants is to make a three-hour-plus film ...

Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” begins in a dusty stretch of Southern California desert in the 1920s, with the delivery of an elephant that will serve as one of the more quixotic performers at an ...