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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.
Oct 22, 2021 · Named after a “gay maître d’ at the Belden Stratford hotel,” future scribe Gifford led a latchkey life on Chicago’s streets, his father dying while he was a young teen and mother suffering a string of bad marriages and health problems.
Nov 9, 2021 · Twenty years older than his wife, his father was also a bootlegger and bookie with mysterious mob ties, ever flying off to such places as Miami, Havana, New York and Acapulco, sometimes with ...
Apr 5, 2024 · Camper: Barry Gifford on inspiration. Georgescu’s back pain forced them to stay overnight at a local motel, which he likened to the Overlook in “The Shining.”. Luckily, the trio survived, and before Gifford left Romania, he shook hands with Georgescu on the idea of eventually making a film together.
Nov 12, 2021 · The film is a beautifully rendered “soul documentary” of Chicago, through the eyes of Barry Gifford, who grew up in the city during those magic years of the 1950s and ‘60s, when the environs...
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.
One of the year's more strikingly original documentaries especially for fans of Gifford and the city of Chicago itself. An impressionistic, dreamlike time capsule that keeps you mesmerized from...
