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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 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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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).
Oct 22, 2021 · Co-produced by Chicago filmmaker Michael Glover Smith (Mercury in Retrograde, Rendezvous in Chicago), Christopher’s concentrated 75-minute picture offers an original view of an artist emerging amidst a gritty locale, an atmospheric evocation of a great American city and a tribute to Gifford’s diamond-hard, poetic observations on the place that m...
Katy arrives and sees Rosa Blanca sitting alone on the couch with the gun in her hand, the bodies of Ricky and Carlos on the floor. Katy takes the gun from Rosa Blanca’s hand, wipes it clean, then places it in the hand of Carlos. “Katy goes to Rosa Blanca and holds her in her arms, comforting the girl.
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.
Aug 20, 2020 · Barry Gifford has been writing the story of America in acclaimed novel after acclaimed novel for the last half-century. At the same time, he’s been writing short stories, his “Roy stories,” that show America from a different vantage point, a certain mix of innocence and worldliness.
