{"id":28655,"date":"2022-09-07T09:42:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T09:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=28655"},"modified":"2022-09-07T09:42:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T09:42:18","slug":"armageddon-time-trailer-james-grays-movie-memoir-is-here-to-break-oscar-voters-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=28655","title":{"rendered":"Armageddon Time\u2019 Trailer: James Gray\u2019s Movie Memoir Is Here to Break Oscar Voters\u2019 Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jeremy Strong, Anthony Hopkins, and Anne Hathaway already have awards buzz for Gray’s reflection on growing up in 1980s Queens. James Gray taps back into his own childhood growing up in 1980s Queens for his rapturously praised movie memoir, \u201cArmageddon Time.\u201d The latest from the director of \u201cAd Astra\u201d and \u201cThe Immigrant,\u201d \u201cArmageddon Time\u201d gathered raves in Cannes before solidifying its position in the Oscar race in Telluride over the past weekend. Next up, it plays the New York Film Festival before Focus Features opens the film on October 28. Watch the official trailer below. The all-star ensemble for \u201cArmageddon Time\u201d features Emmy winner Jeremy Strong, along with Anthony Hopkins and Anne Hathaway. All are already in the awards mix for their turns, but especially Strong, who plays a moody plumber father (to Banks Repeta) weathering societal change up against the backdrop of the rise of Ronald Reagan, on the cusp of becoming president in 1980.<\/p>\n

Per IndieWire\u2019s review out of Cannes, \u201cOn its surface, \u2018Armageddon Time\u2019 is the unsparingly well-remembered story of a pre-pubescent Jewish boy named Paul Graff (Banks Repeta), the slightly older Black kid he meets on the first day of school in September 1980 (Jaylin Webb plays second-time sixth-grader Johnny Davis), and the semi-guileless friendship these two space cadets form on the strength of their mutual interests: rocket ships and fucking with their racist asshole of a homeroom teacher. It\u2019s a story about the invisible fault lines of inequality, the moral compromises demanded by the American Dream, and the very practical ways in which remembering the past can be the only legitimate defense against the social forces that keep trying to repackage it as a vision of the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis role was a role I was very frightened of and drawn to at the same time, which is what you\u2019re looking for,\u201d Strong told IndieWire. \u201cThis man is trying to do the best he can as a father, and in a lot of ways is not equipped to do that well. He\u2019s trying to toughen up his kids and prepare them for an unfair world, so that they can survive in it, and there are misguided ways that he does that. But I think there\u2019s a lot of tenderness and love there, as well as cruelty.\u201d IndieWire also spoke with Gray, who detailed editing the film during 18-hour days for two months, during the Cannes Film Festival here. \u201cI had a difficult time making the last two pictures,\u201d Gray said. \u201cOne was in the jungle, and one was on stages with Brad Pitt on wires in a capsule. It was physically and logistically difficult. And I wanted to rediscover my love of actually making films. I had wanted to do something about my family and about that episode of my life. It was my way to rediscover a kind of passion for the type of movies that I like.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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