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Jun 10, 2020 · Rob Christopher’s documentary Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago, which is screening at this year’s Cheltenham International Film Festival, explores the impact of the Roy Stories and the world they reflect, whilst telling something of Gifford’s own story.
Nov 1, 2021 · An interview with author Barry Gifford and actor Lili Taylor about their new film, Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago, directed by Rob Christopher.
A collage of archive film and photographs and animation overlaid by Barry Gifford's own recollections of his childhood, interspersed by readings from Gifford's stories featuring the (very) autobiographical Roy (as read by Willem Dafoe, Lili Taylor and Matt Dillon).
- Rob Christopher
Sep 4, 2020 · The observant tales told of Gifford’s Roy are poetic, poignant, and comical manner, but what’s most memorable is what Christopher and editor Marianna Milhorat use to bring them to life.
Oct 23, 2021 · Gifford reflects on the multi-layered worlds in which he grew up, on his complicated and fascinating family life, and on the city itself, ‘some of it true, some of it not.’ His Roy stories are a fictional version of Gifford as a child. Des Barry reviews Barry Gifford's Roy's World.
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.
Oct 22, 2021 · Narrated by Willem Dafoe (who memorably played one of Gifford’s notorious creations in Lynch’s Wild at Heart), Lili Taylor and Matt Dillon (with whom Gifford collaborated on the City of Ghosts screenplay), the picture opens with Gifford born one Barry Stein in Chicago’s downtown Seneca Hotel, the son of a beautiful Texas model mother and ...
