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Based on the director's childhood, James Gray's Armageddon Time tells the story of 12-year-old Paul (newcomer Banks Repeta), and how his Jewish family reacts to his friendship with a Black student, Johnny (Jaylin Webb), in early '80s New York. Both boys share a love of space flight, and their pre-teen…

How to convince a studio that your own personal story is worthy of a big screen treatment? When James Gray was pitching Focus Features on Armageddon Time about his Reagan-era childhood, the filmmaker tells us that it was “in the micro, the specifics of my own little story; I was hoping it would say…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year's movie awards races. Writer-director James Gray went back to the personal for Armageddon Time, the autobiographical story that pulls from Gray’s own upbringing in a…

Avatar: The Way of Water‘s mega-publicized opening has brought movies back into the conversation, but movie-makers seem to have been lost in the mist. James Cameron's persona is ablaze across the media but, by contrast, the very personal work of Sam Mendes, James Gray and even Steven Spielberg has done a…

Every director brings a piece of themselves to their work, but this Oscar season has seen films becoming ever more personal. And it's up to the cinematographer to work with their director to bring those stories to life.  James Gray explores his relationship with his grandfather and a pivotal…

Armageddon Time director James Gray's got a tip for aspiring filmmakers: If you want to look good as a director, work with gifted actors, like Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong. "I’m a big fan of great actors because what they do is tend to make you look considerably more capable than…

Three rite-of-passage movies are vying for attention this week at a moment when the rewards of maturity seem to be offering more gratification than the agonies of youth. Steven Spielberg, Sam Mendes and James Gray have delivered candid and poignant…

After venturing into the Amazon with Lost City Of Z, and then outer space with Ad Astra, writer/director James Gray has gone back to the New York roots that colored so many of his earlier films, and now has made his most personal with Armageddon Time, his…

Has there ever been such a joyless film awards season? I mean, other than 2020, when Covid closed the theaters, or 2001, after the terror attacks. Personally, I can't remember one. Abortion clinics are promoting Call Jane. Weinstein trial jurors are warned not to watch the She Said trailer, lest…

Three films opening this weekend highlight women’s rights, class and racism — nothing ripped from today’s headlines exactly, but features with a distinctive moment and point of view that appear particularly relevant today. Call Jane, Holy Spider and Armageddon Time join Tár, Till, The Banshees of Inisherin…

Martin Scorsese gave a long shout-out to the NYFF and the art of cinema on stage at Avery Fisher Hall as the fest celebrated its 60th anniversary with the world premiere of his latest documentary, Personality Crisis: One Night Only. It followed a screening of Armageddon Time, another New York story by…

EXCLUSIVE: Jaylin Webb, the young star of James Gray’s autobiographical period drama, Armageddon Time, has signed with Innovative Artists for representation.  Armageddon Time, starring Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway, is a coming of age story, written and directed by Gray (The Immigr…