James Gray‘s latest film Paper Tiger, like most of his work, draws from his personal and family history to tell a semi-fictionalized story of a Queens family in the 1980s that becomes entangled with the Russian mob, thanks to a moneymaking scheme pitched to patriarch Irwin (Miles Teller) by older brother Gary (Adam Driver). Coming after semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama Armageddon Time, the crime thriller, Gray says, is not a sequel and doesn’t hew as closely to his own experience. “This one is much different. I think that one was much more close to the facts of the case,” Gray said after Paper Tiger‘s North American premiere at…
