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Sep 2, 2020 · Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago: Directed by Rob Christopher. With Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, Barry Gifford, Lili Taylor. The "Roy" stories of writer Barry Gifford serve as a springboard for an impressionistic portrait of a vanished Chicago.
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- Documentary
- Rob Christopher
- 2020-09-02
In Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago, excerpts from the Roy stories performed by Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, and Lili Taylor are interwoven with Gifford's recollections of his...
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- Documentary, Drama
- Rob Christopher
ROY’S WORLD official trailer #2. Play Video. "Barry Gifford is a killer f**kin' writer ... Roy's World captures his childhood and that time in Chicago, and many other places. I really enjoyed watching it and then contemplating what goes on inside a person with this history.
Hailed as William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn paperbacks and Sun Records rockabilly, author Barry Gifford has given the world more than forty works, including the novel that...
Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago Featuring Willem Dafoe, Lili Taylor and Matt Dillon, the film brings to life Gifford's autobiographical collection of stories, capturing a vanished 1950s Chicago through a jazzy combination of beguiling archive footage, animation and spoken word.
Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago DOCUMENTARY Hailed as William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn paperbacks and Sun Records rockabilly, author Barry Gifford has given the world more than forty works, including the novel that inspired David Lynch's WILD AT HEART.
Narrated by Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, and Lili Taylor. Barry Gifford's gritty autobiographical stories of growing up in 1950s Chicago are the backdrop for an impressionistic portrait of a vanished time and place.
- 3 min
