After numerous delays, "Return to Babylon" -- director Alex Monty Canawati's lavish 1920s period piece that pays tribute to the sex scandals and cover-up marriages of Hollywood's Golden Age -- is being resurrected for release, with the help of gay filmmaker Matt Riddlehoover. The film follows homo-repressed "Latin lovers" Ramon Navarro (Phillip Bloch) and Rudolph Valentino (Canawati) and a troupe of ridiculously unstable actresses. "It" girl Clara Bow (Jennifer Tilly) stands trial for her revolving-door lifestyle, while coked-out Barbara La Marr (Wendy Caron) snorts Tinseltown dry. Tempestuous Lupe Velez (Maria Conchita Alonso) yearns for marital bliss, while temptress Alla Nazimova (Laura Harring) marries to shield her bisexuality. With a cast that also includes Debi Mazar, Ione Skye, Tippi Hedren and shunned ex-Blondie guitar Frank Infante(!), "Return to Babylon" looks like it just may be worth the wait.
2 comments:
I'm sorry if he's a friend but he seems NUTS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NxQxOZedOk
Sure, the footage looks very authentically '20s, but he thinks he's capturing Christ because women with long hair are in it?
I had the opportunity to meet director Canawati on a few occasions; the man is definately profound and magnetic.
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