James Gray on Broader Takeaways From Personal Film ‘Paper Tiger’: “What Connects Us Is What Matters”
The crime drama draws on Gray’s family history and follows two brothers whose scheme pulls a Queens family into the Russian mob.
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‘Paper Tiger’ Director James Gray Says He Doesn’t ‘Want to Preach’ Politics To Audiences: ‘Art Is Not Sunday School’
“Paper Tiger” director James Gray says he doesn’t “want to preach” about politics while making the festival rounds for his latest film, starring Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller. “All movies are political in one way or another, but I like movies that exist with subtext,” Gray told Variety at the film’s New York […]
James Gray Says His Next Film May Be Another Expansive, David Lean-Inspired Adaptation
For all the very personal, very New York territory James Gray has been mining lately, it sounds like he may be ready to get out of his own backyard again. With “Paper Tiger” opening the New York Film Festival, Gray told Deadline that his next movie will probably move away from the autobiographical mode of “Paper Tiger” and “Armageddon Time.” More interestingly, he suggested he may return to the kind of expansive filmmaking he chased with “The Lo…
Paper Tiger Director James Gray Talks Audience Takeaways, Ending
James Gray‘s latest film Paper Tiger, like most of his work, draws from his personal and family history to tell a semi-fictionalized story of a Queens family in the 1980s that becomes entangled with the Russian mob, thanks to a moneymaking scheme pitched to patriarch Irwin (Miles Teller) by older brother Gary (Adam Driver). Coming […]
James Gray Doesn't “Want to Preach” Politics in His Movies, Sets David Lean-Style Epic After 'Paper Tiger'
While at the New York Film Festival with "Paper Tiger," James Gray told Deadline that he'll "probably" step away from the autobiographical mode of that film and "Armageddon Time." He also hinted at a return to the kind of sweeping, outward-looking, David Lean-inspired filmmaking he last attempted with "The Lost City of Z," his 2016 adaptation of David Grann's book."I really loved the kind of expansiveness" Gray said, “I was anxious to just break…
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