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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.
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.
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.
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 distinct or faded images shared – from black-and white to vibrant color, of day time or stark night, in the heat of summer to the frozen midwest tundra – run concurrent with a an intoxicating jazz score from Jason Adasiewicz (“The Interruptors”) that noodles its way throughout the entire film, with flaring horns, tingling xylophones, and mes...
Oct 22, 2021 · October 22, 2021. 5 mins read. As an excavation of a place, time and a personal history, Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago deconstructs Chicago poet and novelist Barry Gifford in an original movie portrait of the artist as a young man, told in a variety of forms, against a backdrop of the rough-hewn Windy City milieu of his earliest years.
Photographs and sketches from Gifford’s personal archive, along with stock images and footage, make up the bulk of the visuals of the documentary. These images are soundtracked by voice-overs that read from The Roy Stories, with the voices playing over an original jazz score from Jason Adasiewicz.
