Paper Tiger, Cannes and James Gray
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Adam Driver, Miles Teller and James Gray talk about their new film 'Paper Tiger' at Cannes, while Driver also fielded a question about Lena Dunham's memoir.
The director went straight to voicemail when he tried to call Johansson during the standing ovation after the Cannes premiere of 'Paper Tiger.'
Like all of James Gray's best films, "Paper Tiger" is both sweepingly mythic and hauntingly personal all at once.
James Gray’s new film, Paper Tiger, opens with the following quote from father of ancient Greek tragedy, Aeschylus (Agamemnon): Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.
James Gray knows how to mess with genre. His last film, 2022's "Armageddon Time," was a coming-of-age memoir, but a notably unsentimental entry is what is usually a sentimental genre. And his new one,
Pedro Almodóvar, James Gray, Korean cinema, and controversial new films are turning Cannes 2026 into a global spectacle.