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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.
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
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 22, 2020 · A tie-in to the new documentary, Roy's World , directed by Rob Christopher narrated by Lili Taylor, Matt Dillon and Willem Dafoe, these stories comprise one of Barry Gifford's most enduring works, his homage to the gritty Chicago landscape of his youth.
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- Paperback
- Barry Gifford
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 ...
The year 2020 has brought us Roy’s World: Stories 1973–2020, collecting Gifford’s tales about Roy, a fictional character modeled on himself as a boy. Taken together, these stories make for one of the most important and moving American bildungsromans of all time.
