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ROY’S WORLD official trailer #2. "Barry Gifford is a killer f**kin' writer ... Roy's World captures his childhood and that time in Chicago, and many other places. I really enjoyed watching it and then contemplating what goes on inside a person with this history. I really love that world and the things that can happen there."
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In Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago, excerpts from the Roy stories performed by Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, and Lili Taylor are interwoven with Gifford's recollections of his childhood.
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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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- 2020-09-02
Nov 8, 2021 · “Picasso said that ‘art is a lie that helps us see the truth,’ and Barry’s stories function in the same way about Chicago in the 1950s,” director Rob Christopher told me during our 2019 conversation about his extraordinary film, “Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago.” “He uses his memories to create fictionalized versions of that time period.
Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago. Featuring Willem Dafoe, Lili Taylor and Matt Dillon, the film brings to life Gifford's autobiographical collection of stories, capturing a vanished 1950s Chicago through a jazzy combination of beguiling archive footage, animation and spoken word. 1 IMDb 8.0 1 h 15 min 2022. 13+.
Featuring Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, and Lili Taylor, ROY'S WORLD: BARRY GIFFORD'S CHICAGO brilliantly brings to life Gifford’s autobiographical collection of stories, capturing a vanished 1950s Chicago through a jazzy, impressionistic combination of beguiling archive footage, animation, and spoken word. Official Trailer.
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.
