James Gray’s Paper Tiger opens the New York Film Festival on Friday, September 25. Miles Teller plays a Queens engineer drawn by his former-cop brother, Adam Driver, into a scheme involving Russian criminals dumping oil by the Gowanus Canal; Scarlett Johansson plays his wife. The film runs 115 minutes and the opening-night screenings at Alice Tully Hall and Walter Reade Theater are on 35mm. Film at Lincoln Center
The 6 p.m. screening advertises a Q&A with Gray, Driver, Johansson and Teller; Gray introduces the 6:30 and 9 p.m. shows. Other Friday screenings run at 6:15, 9:15, 9:30 and 9:45, with another show October 2 at 1:15 p.m. The page lists times but did not expose selectable seats, so treat the guests as a reason to check rather than proof that tickets remain. Gray’s recurrent subject—family loyalty pressed against class aspiration—has rarely had such locally specific grime.