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12 nov 2021 · “Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago” is a look at the city in that era, and it will screen at the 2021 Chicago Critics Film Festival. Click ROY ’S WORLD for details.
ROY'S WORLD official trailer 1 Narrated by Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, and Lili Taylor. Barry Gifford's gritty autobiographical stories of growing up in 1950s Chicago are the backdrop for an impressionistic portrait of a vanished time and place.
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9 giu 2020 · Roy’s World is primarily a documentary about that feeling of uniqueness–about the beautiful events and specific place in history that Chicago and its people bring to the world. It follows Barry Gifford, most known for his novel Wild at Heart , and is about the short stories of a character named Roy who grows up in Chicago’s often hectic environment.
5 mar 2020 · Barry Gifford (David Lynch's WILD AT HEART and LOST HIGHWAY) is one of America’s greatest storytellers. In ROY'S WORLD: BARRY GIFFORD'S CHICAGO, his...
Gifford's father was in organized crime, and he spent his childhood largely in Chicago and New Orleans living in hotels. His childhood, as recounted in his long-running series of autobiographical tales known collectively as the Roy stories, is explored in the 2020 documentary Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago.
Roy’s World Stories: 1973-2020. New paperback available for pre-order September 22, 2020. A tie-in to the new documentary, Roy’s World, directed by Rob Christopher narrated by Lili Taylor, Matt Dillon and Willem Dafoe, these stories comprise one of Barry Gifford’s most enduring works, his homage to the gritty Chicago landscape of his youth.
12 lug 2023 · Roy’s World follows Roy, coming-of-age on the gritty streets of 1950’s Chicago, whose experiences are inspired by Gifford’s own childhood. Through this surrogate, the viewer experiences a slice of Chicago history, from its pervasive municipal corruption to the dawn of the tumultuous 60’s.
