Willem Dafoe
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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.
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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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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 world.
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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.
Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago. 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. 1 IMDb 7.9 1 h 15 min 2022. X-Ray 13+. Documentary.
Nov 8, 2021 · “Roy’s World” is finally set to have its Windy City premiere at 2:30pm on Saturday, November 13th, in the glorious Music Box Theatre as part of the 2021 Chicago Critics Film Festival, with Gifford and Christopher in attendance.
Roy's World: Barry Gifford's 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.
