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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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...
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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 · “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. 1 IMDb 7.9 1 h 15 min 2022. 13+.
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+.
Oct 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.
