http://deadline.com/2016/08/lost-city-of-z-new-york-film-festival-closing-night-film-james-gray-charlie-hunnam-1201797811/
Right in the awards season.
EtA: Sorry, just notice that I pasted a wrong link, replace with the right one now.
The Lost City of Z, written and directed by James Gray (The Immigrant, Two Lovers), will close the 54th New York Film Festival. The film, based on journalist David Grann’s nonfiction book of the same name, will make its world premiere at the festival’s final gala screening on Saturday, October 15.
James Gray’s emotionally and visually resplendent epic tells the story of Lt. Colonel Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), the British military-man-turned-explorer whose search for a lost city deep in the Amazon grows into an increasingly feverish, decades-long magnificent obsession that takes a toll on his reputation, his home life with his wife (Sienna Miller) and children, and his very existence.
Also starring Robert Pattinson as fellow explorer and right-hand-man Henry Costin, and Tom Holland (Spiderman), as Fawcett’s son.
Fawcett is said to have been one of George Lucas’s inspirations for Indiana Jones and was also a friend of the authors H Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle; the latter’s The Lost World was inspired by the explorer.
Gray and cinematographer Darius Khondji cast quite a spell, exquisitely pitched between rapture and dizzying terror. The Lost City of Z represents a form of epic storytelling that has all but vanished from the landscape of modern cinema, and a rare level of artistry.
“James Gray is one of the finest filmmakers we have,” said New York Film Festival Director and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones. “Each of his movies is so beautifully wrought, visually and emotionally, but The Lost City of Z represents something new. It’s a true epic, spanning two continents and three decades, and it’s a genuine vision of the search for sublimity.”
“It’s truly a dream come true for me to have The Lost City of Z selected for the closing night of the New York Film Festival,” said Gray. “I couldn’t be more honored that the film’s world premiere will be in my hometown, a city I still love above all others.”
The film was produced by Brad Pitt and other prestigious closing night films from the NYFF include the Oscar-winning Birdman, Her, The Descendants, Sideways, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Piano and The Last Tango in Paris.
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Thanks for posting the right article. Very exciting news.
shareThe demand for tickets was such that they've added 3 additional screenings following the premiere, and they're all sold out too.
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Playlist runs down their "Must See" films at the NYFF and puts TLCOZ at the top of the list (since it has 6 screenings at the festival, more than any other film, it seems warranted).
14 Must-See Films At The New York Film Festival The Playlist Staff
...this week’s upcoming New York Film Festival is irrefutable proof that cinema is alive and healthier than ever.
The 54th annual New York Film Festival kicks off this Friday and as usual, the stellar programming is a top-shelf selection of artful and intelligently-made cinema. In simplest terms, the choices made in the NYFF programming this year is as exemplary as ever. As the festival begins this Friday, we decided to run down a list of 14 must-see movies for you New Yorkers dying to absorb more cinematic culture.
“The Lost City Of Z”
Some 8-odd years in the making, James Gray follows up the intimate chamber drama, “The Immigrant,” with his most ambitious film to date. Based on the titular book by David Grann, “The Lost City Of Z” centers on a knowledge-thirsty English explorer who leaves the comfort of his family to travel to South America and look to discover a rumored lost city in the middle of the Amazonian jungle.
Perilous and potentially foolhardy, the quest is heart of darkness journey down the rabbit hole of jungle of claustrophobia. Starring Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland, Sienna Miller, and shot once again by Darius Khondji, the epic-sounding ‘Lost City Of Z’ said to be influenced by David Lean and Francis Ford Coppola, is easily Gray’s biggest film to dates and widest in scope ever.
Gray uses genre as a Trojan horse to examine masculinity and family dysfunction so it will be interesting to see what Gray does with this “Apocalypse Now”-sounding picture. Additionally, Gray’s picture has the distinction of being the festival’s closing night film.
http://theplaylist.net/14-must-see-films-new-york-film-festival-20160927/
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Cool! So people will notice it!
What's missing in movies is same as in society: a good sense of work ethic and living up to ideals.