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Barry Gifford (born October 18, 1946) is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and prose influenced by film noir and Beat Generation writers. Gifford writes nonfiction, poetry, and is best known for his series of novels about Sailor and Lula, two star-crossed protagonists on a perpetual ...
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Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago (2019) Directed by Rob Christopher. Written by Rob Christopher & Barry Gifford. Starring Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Barry Gifford. In a series of autobiographical stories spanning more than forty years Barry Gifford has chronicled the adventures of Roy, a boy coming of age largely on the ...
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.
Tropico is an upcoming American film noir thriller directed by Giada Colagrande and written by Barry Gifford. It stars Pedro Pascal, Morena Baccarin, and Willem Dafoe .
Oct 27, 2022 · He was able to go golfing with seemingly very few problems about the whole thing. I wondered how, if a person did these deeds, he could go on living. And we found this great psychology term -- "psychogenic fugue" -- describing an event where the mind tricks itself to escape some horror. So, in a way, "Lost Highway" is about that.
Nov 9, 2021 · American writer Barry Gifford in Paris, France, in 2010. Gifford was born and grew up in the Seneca Hotel in Streeterville. His name was Barry Stein and his mother was a former Texas beauty queen ...
Barry Gifford is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and prose influenced by film noir and Beat Generation writers.
