When your ode to old-school Hollywood includes high-velocity elephant diarrhea, drunken shenanigans, an orgiastic swath of half-naked people and mountains of cocaine in the first 30 minutes alone, ...

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 ...