{"id":4516,"date":"2026-07-20T09:04:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:04:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:04:55","slug":"james-gray-to-be-honored-with-locarno-film-festival-career-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=4516","title":{"rendered":"James Gray to Be Honored With Locarno Film Festival Career Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tThe Locarno Film Festival will honor James Gray with a lifetime career award at this year\u2019s edition, where the U.S. auteur\u2019s most recent work, \u201cPaper Tiger,\u201d will screen.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=4514\">China Box Office: \u2018Kung Fu Soccer\u2019 Maintains Dominance as Animated \u2018All Wishes Come True\u2019 Debuts in Second<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tGray will receive the Pardo alla Carriera award on Aug. 9 and will present \u201cPaper Tiger\u201d \u2014 which launched in May from Cannes \u2014 at the fest\u2019s Piazza Grande outdoor venue. Set in 1986, the film follows two brothers, Irwin (Miles Teller) and Gary Pearl (Adam Driver). Irwin becomes entangled with the Russian mob after embarking on a get-rich-quick scheme to clean up the Gowanus Canal, and his former cop brother, Gary, is the only one who can get him out of trouble. \u201cPaper Tiger\u201d will have its North American premiere as the opening night film of the 64th New York Film Festival on Sept. 25.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTwo other titles directed by Gray, \u201cWe Own the Night\u201d (2007) and \u201cTwo Lovers\u201d (2008), will also screen at Locarno as part of the tribute.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cSince winning the Silver Lion at Venice for \u2018Little Odessa\u2019 (1994) at age 25, James Gray has forged a singular career rooted, with piercing realism, in his upbringing in New York\u2019s Russian-Jewish community,\u201d the fest said in a statement, citing Gray\u2019s \u201cThe Yards\u201d (2000), \u201cWe Own the Night\u201d (2007), \u201cTwo Lovers\u201d (2008) and \u201cThe Immigrant\u201d (2013), which cemented Gray\u2019s standing \u201cas one of American cinema\u2019s most artistically distinctive voices \u2014 a filmmaker as concerned with criminal underworlds, rendered with exacting detail, as with meticulous family portraiture, often situated within the Brighton Beach of his youth and shaped by a dialogue with classic American and European auteur cinema.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=4513\">\u2018New-Gen\u2019 Universe Launches First Consumer Products Line With Comic-Con Trading Cards (EXCLUSIVE)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Locarno statement continued: \u201cAs he has established himself at the top tier of filmmakers in the United States, Gray\u2019s explorations of the often elusive promise of the American dream have, over the past decade, expanded into more varied thematic terrain \u2014 colonial exploration, space travel, racial prejudice \u2014 that reshaped the popular understanding of his work while remaining distinctively his own: \u2018The Lost City of Z\u2019 (2016) with Charlie Hunnam and Robert Pattinson, \u2018Ad Astra\u2019 (2019) with Brad Pitt and \u2018Armageddon Time\u2019 (2022) with Anthony Hopkins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLocarno artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro added, \u201cJames Gray is the last great novelist of American cinema. His films form a rich body of work that echoes the Jewish diaspora, film noir and Russian as well as North American literature.\u201d He called Gray \u201ca filmmaker with a humanist sensibility and profound cinephile knowledge\u201d who \u201chas experimented with genres such as science fiction and adventure while retaining his own artistic identity and voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPrevious winners of the Locarno Pardo alla Carriera Award include Francesco Rosi, Bruno Ganz, Claudia Cardinale, Johnnie To, Harry Belafonte, Jane Birkin, Costa-Gavras, Tsai Ming-liang, Shah Rukh Khan and Jackie Chan.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=4511\">Korea Box Office: Na Hong Jin\u2019s \u2018Hope\u2019 Rules With 66% Market Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe 79th edition of Locarno will run Aug. 5-15.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Gray will be honored by the Locarno Film Festival with its Pardo Career Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[275,1906],"class_list":["post-4516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-james-gray","tag-locarno-film-festival-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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