James Gray’s “The Lost City of Z” (the “Z” is pronounced “zed” by the film’s British characters) is precisely the sort of grand adventure that made me fall in love with movies in the first place. In ...

Based on the book by David Grann, James Gray’s new action-adventure The Lost City of Z tells the true story of Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), an early 20th century British military ...

It's been more than 90 years since Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett disappeared somewhere in the jungles of Brazil, and, while a new film rumored to star Brad Pitt will attempt to tell his story, we're ...

There was a time when Hollywood specialized in big films with big ideas, epics that not only transported audiences to previously unseen worlds, but also had something important to say about the human ...

WHILE mapping the Brazilian-Bolivian border in 1906, Percy Fawcett uncovered shards of pottery. Crawling on the jungle floor, he picked up these simple fragments with amazement; he saw in them signs ...

Depending on whom you ask, The Lost City of Z, the new movie from American independent filmmaker James Gray, is many things: a straightforward Amazonian adventure story about the early 20th-century ...

There are times during James Gray’s The Lost City of Z – the closing night film at this year’s New York Film Festival that tells the true story of English explorer Percy Fawcett (played by Charlie ...

Director James Gray’s new film, The Lost City of Z, has been met with mostly rapturous reviews, hailing it as an old-school adventure story reminiscent of the grand adventures that David Lean once put ...

I've been waiting for this book since 2005. That's when David Grann's article about explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest to find the mythic city of El Dorado in the Amazon appeared in The New Yorker.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Three stars. Rated PG-13. 141 minutes. The old-school adventure epic is something of an endangered species. We no longer see explorers on the big screen, ...

In Lost City of Z, Hunnam played British explorer Percy Fawcett who meets Pattinson’s Corporal Henry Costin aboard a ship to Brazil. They team up on Fawcett’s expedition to the Amazon to find the ...

It's been more than 90 years since Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett disappeared somewhere in the jungles of Brazil, and, while a new film rumored to star Brad Pitt will attempt to tell his story, we're ...