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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring James Gray, ranked

James Gray appears in several titles adapted from the pages of books and comic books to the screen, such as Hitchcock Truffaut or .
Here, we offer a ranked list, from best to worst, of 2 movies and TV series based on existing source material where James Gray appears. Revisit old favorites or discover hidden gems, whether books or film productions. We invite you to watch, read, and vote for any title, joining the debate of whether the book or the movie is better.
Hitchcock/Truffaut. Poster of the 2015 movie and cover of the 1966 book, Hitchcock
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Hitchcock
François Truffaut, 1966
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Hitchcock Truffaut
Kent Jones, 2015

In 1962 Hitchcock and Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. The film illustrates the greatest cinema lesson of all time. Hitchcock’s incredibly modern art is elucidated and explained by today’s leading filmmakers: Scorsese, David Fincher, Arnaud Desplechin, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Wes Anderson, James Gray, Olivier Assayas, Richard Linklater, Peter Bogdanovich and Paul Schrader.

The Lost City of Z. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the 2009 book
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The Lost City of Z
David Grann, 2009
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The Lost City of Z
James Gray, 2016

In 1905 Percy Fawcett is a young British officer participating in a stag hunt on an Irish baronial estate for the benefit of the visiting Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Fawcett meets the renowned biologist James Murray, who agrees to back Fawcett’s expedition to the Amazon to find what Fawcett calls the Lost City of Z. Fawcett attempts to convince the members of the RGS to back the expedition, but is publicly ridiculed.