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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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- Documentary
- Rob Christopher
- 2020-09-02
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 world.
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- Documentary, Drama
- Rob Christopher
Author Barry Gifford's gritty autobiographical stories of growing up in 1950s Chicago provide the backdrop for an impressionistic documentary portrait of a vanished time and place.
- Rob Christopher
For more than 40 years Barry Gifford has chronicled the adventures of Roy, a boy coming of age largely on the gritty streets of 1950s Chicago. Excerpts from the Roy stories are interwoven with vintage footage and evocative jazz in this impressionistic portrait of a vanished world. — randomcha.
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.
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.
