ARMAGEDDON TIME
Writer: James Gray
By David Grann
James Gray, the director and screenwriter, has always used the art of film to explore, probing for clues about everything that shapes the human condition: families, loyalty, power, class, colonialism, love, greed, ambition. In two of his previous films, Gray searched in distant realms: for “The Lost City of Z,” which was adapted from my book, he journeyed to the Amazonian jungle, and for “Ad Astra,” he ventured as far as outer space. In his newest film, “Armageddon Time,” he has returned to the place in which he grew up, in Queens, New York, excavating his own family history. The result is one of the most incisive and profound films about privilege and complicity in America.
Gray builds the film around his…
