Interview
Director, Screenwriter
Talking to The Lost City of Z Writer/Director James Gray
Introducing his new film, The Lost City of Z, to a full house at the National Geographic Society auditorium, writer-director James Gray confessed to something he termed "a bit embarrassing": He originally hadn't considered the ecological aspects of the Amazon-set saga that was making its Washington debut in March as part of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital. That facet of the tale was revealed to him only when he reached the area of Brazil explored in the early 20th century by his protagonist,
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.”
The Lost City of Z to Close the New York Film Festival
New Yorker writer David Grann's 2009 book "The Lost City of Z" tells the incredible story of Colonel Percy Fawcett, a swashbuckling adventurer whose exploits in the Amazon rainforest were front page news in his day, and became the stuff of legend when he disappeared, along with his son and his son's best friend, in the jungle in 1925 in search of the Lost City of Z. Z was thought to be the kingdom of El Dorado,
