For Anthony Hopkins, a grandfather role with personal echoes
The โheart and soulโ of a film is an often-overused term, but itโs practically unavoidable when it comes to Anthony Hopkins in James Grayโs โArmageddon Time.โ Grayโs autobiographical film, drawn with exquisite detail from his childhood growing up in 1980s Queens, New York, follows an 11-year-old named Paul (Banks Repeta) with dreams of becoming an artist. Made with both nostalgia and self-examination, โArmageddon Timeโ touches on larger social currents โ a Black classmate (Jaylin Webb) faces distinctly different opportunities at school; the Trump family makes an appearance โ while crafting a vivid portrait of Grayโs Jewish-American family.
news.yahoo.comNew York Film Festival sets lineup for 60th edition
The New York Film Festival will celebrate its 60th anniversary with a robust 32-film main slate and a number of hometown tales, including James Grayโs Queens coming-of-age drama โArmageddon Timeโ and Laura Poitrasโ documentary โAll the Beauty and the Bloodshed,โ about artist Nan Goldinโs battle against the Sackler family.
'Armageddon Time,' portrait of white privilege, stirs Cannes
James Grayโs autobiographical coming of age film โArmageddon Time,โ starring Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong, has made the biggest splash of an American film not starring Tom Cruise at the Cannes Film Festival
washingtonpost.comBack to normal? Cannes Film Festival prepares to party
After the 2020 Cannes Film Festival was canceled by the pandemic and the 2021 edition was scaled back โ even kisses were forbade on the red carpet โ the lavish French Riviera cinema soiree is set to return with a festival that promises to be something like normal.
Director James Gray muses on 'Ad Astra'
The director of "Ad Astra" is apologizing for keeping things highbrow, which is no reason to apologize at all. Anyone who has watched a Gray movie, which he writes or co-writes as well as directs, will know this extends to his filmmaking. "Ad Astra," Gray's seventh feature, sees the director handed a significantly larger budget than usual to realize his ambitious near-future sci-fi thriller. "Ad Astra" wrestles with it too (although it would be egregious to spoil the film's answer). "Ad Astra" is released in the UK on September 18 and in the US on September 20.