Berlinale 2017: The Modern-Classical-Non-Blockbuster The Lost City of Z

“Because the cinema is in such trouble, and everyone is so afraid, everyone wants to make a big blockbuster, they want to get their own franchise and stuff,” the director James Gray explained during Berlinale interviews for his new historical adventure film, The Lost City of Z. “I feel a natural tendency to not do that, because that’s what everyone’s trying to do, and I would wish that there was a little space where somebody could try to put him or herself into the film in the mainstream American context.”