“For moments like that, I remember going, ‘Whoa, this is crazy,’” he recalls.
La La Land is about the city I live in, the music that I grew up playing, movies that I grew up watching For the opening pre-credits sequence alone, Chazelle filmed a fastidiously rehearsed song and dance set-piece on a closed-off portion of the Los Angeles highway over a weekend. The story is deceptively simple: Emma Stone plays a struggling actor, whose relationship to her jazz pianist boyfriend (Ryan Gosling) becomes strained when his career begins to overtake hers. La La Land is a joyous testament to that – a colourful and heartrending ode to Tinseltown, and the bygone era of musicals it gave birth to. I’ve worshipped him since forever.”Ĭhazelle is a self-professed fanboy, not just of Hanks, but of the industry that made the actor a household name. “I’m blushing even thinking about ,” says Chazelle, looking like a college student in T-shirt and jeans, sitting in a conference room at the Telluride hotel where he’s staying. “Number one, it is a musical and no one knows the songs.” “When you see something that is brand new, that you can’t imagine, and you think, ‘Well, thank God this landed,’ because I think a movie like La La Land would be anathema to studios,” Hanks said during a Q&A for Sully. In the Colorado ski town to plug his performance in Clint Eastwood’s Sully, Hanks has taken it upon himself to act as La La Land’s unofficial mascot, professing his admiration for the picture when he’s supposed to be touting his own. Such buzz has landed La La Land atop awards pundits’ 2017 Oscar predictions, with many touting Chazelle as a frontrunner for the best director Oscar (he was previously nominated for best adapted screenplay for Whiplash).īut for the 31-year-old right now, the biggest thrill has been the praise of Tom Hanks.
The same occurred at the Telluride film festival days later, where it received its North American debut. Its world premiere drew raves (The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw declared it a “ sun-drenched musical masterpiece”). La La Land won the spot this year, and reception to Damien Chazelle’s follow-up to Whiplash has been nothing short of rapturous. In 2015, a blip, as snowy flop Everest failed to make it a hat-trick, but this year, the choicest launchpad seems back in the good books.
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