Armageddon Time Red Carpet Highlights | NYFF60

Director James Gray, stars Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Banks Repeta, and Jaylin Webb, and more discuss Armageddon Time on the red carpet of the film’s world premiere at the 60th New York Film Festival. Armageddon Time is a Main Slate selection of this year’s festival. The most personal film yet from James Gray (The Immigrant, The Lost City of Z) is also one of his greatest, an exquisitely detailed and deeply emotional etching of a time and place: Queens, 1980. Set against the backdrop of a country on the cusp of ominous sociopolitical change, Armageddon Time follows Paul Graff (Banks Repeta), a sixth grader who dreams of becoming an artist. At the same time that Paul builds a friendship with classmate Johnny (Jaylin Webb), who’s mercilessly targeted by their racist teacher, he finds himself increasingly at odds with his parents (Jeremy Strong and Anne Hathaway), for whom financial success and assimilation are key to the family’s Jewish-American identity. Paul feels on firmest ground with his