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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.
ROY’S WORLD official trailer #2. Play Video. "Barry Gifford is a killer f**kin' writer ... Roy's World captures his childhood and that time in Chicago, and many other places.
Fusing vintage footage and photographs of Chicago with animated sequences and an evocative jazz score by Jason Adasiewicz, Roy's World presents an impressionistic portrait of a vanished...
Nov 8, 2021 · “Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago” screens at 2:30pm on Saturday, November 13th, at the Music Box Theatre as part of the Chicago Critics Film Festival with Barry Gifford and director Rob Christopher in attendance. For tickets, click here.
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.
Details. Cult author and David Lynch collaborator Barry Gifford’s gritty autobiographical stories of growing up in the 1950s (narrated by Willem Dafoe, Lili Taylor and Matt Dillon) provide the backdrop for a jazzy, impressionistic portrait of a vanished Chicago.
2020 · 1 hr 15 min. TV-14. Documentary. A portrait of one of Chicago’s greatest living writers, hailed as William Faulkner by way of B-movie noir, porn paperbacks and Sun Records rockabilly. Subtitles: English. Starring: Willem Dafoe Matt Dillon Barry Gifford Lili Taylor. Directed by: Rob Christopher.
