Chicago – The Chicago of the 1950s and early 1960s was a different city then what it is now, and to capture that in a documentary is quite remarkable. “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.
The film is a beautifully rendered “soul documentary” of Chicago, through the eyes of Barry Gifford, who grew up in the city during those magic years of the 1950s and ‘60s, when the environs were more gritty and working class. Roy refers to the fictional character that Gifford based his childhood on, and excerpts from his stories are read by Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon and Lily Taylor. Gifford himself is woven through the doc, as he counters the fiction with his real life story. Director Rob Christopher did an artistic...
The film is a beautifully rendered “soul documentary” of Chicago, through the eyes of Barry Gifford, who grew up in the city during those magic years of the 1950s and ‘60s, when the environs were more gritty and working class. Roy refers to the fictional character that Gifford based his childhood on, and excerpts from his stories are read by Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon and Lily Taylor. Gifford himself is woven through the doc, as he counters the fiction with his real life story. Director Rob Christopher did an artistic...
- 11/13/2021
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – After a postponement in 2020, the Chicago Film Critics Festival (Ccff) – the only U.S. film fest curated by film critics – will present a truncated weekend of films from the major festivals in 2021 and the upcoming Awards Season favorites. The fest kicks off Friday, November 12th at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre. For details on passes , films and tickets, click Ccff 2021.
Festival highlights … besides the previews below … include the Opening Night film, The Lost Daughter, filmmaker Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, a film showcase Ccff Shorts Program and the Closing Night Film, Red Rocket. Click on the links for description and ticket information.
Preview Of The 2021 Ccff: Capsule Reviews
The Novice
Photo credit: Ccff
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Rating: 4.5/5.0
”The Novice” – Awarded the Best U.S. Narrative at 2021 Tribeca, this film lives up to the honor as an intense character study of a female student/athlete named Alex Dall,...
Festival highlights … besides the previews below … include the Opening Night film, The Lost Daughter, filmmaker Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, a film showcase Ccff Shorts Program and the Closing Night Film, Red Rocket. Click on the links for description and ticket information.
Preview Of The 2021 Ccff: Capsule Reviews
The Novice
Photo credit: Ccff
Click the title for information …
Rating: 4.5/5.0
”The Novice” – Awarded the Best U.S. Narrative at 2021 Tribeca, this film lives up to the honor as an intense character study of a female student/athlete named Alex Dall,...
- 11/12/2021
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago
Barry Gifford is a name well known to film fans. He wrote David Lynch hit Lost Highway and the novel on which Wild At Heart was based. He’s a celebrated author much admired for his bittersweet portraits of Chicago life. His collected Roy Stories, semi-autobiographical tales about a boy growing up in the city during the Forties and Fifties, were published together for the first time in 2013.
Rob Christopher’s documentary Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago, which is screening at this year’s Cheltenham International Film Festival, explores the impact of the Roy Stories and the world they reflect, whilst telling something of Gifford’s own story. Rob and I got talking when his film premièred at the Glasgow Film Festival earlier in the year, and recently connected online to talk about the film. I congratulated him on his study with its high shelves overflowing with.
Barry Gifford is a name well known to film fans. He wrote David Lynch hit Lost Highway and the novel on which Wild At Heart was based. He’s a celebrated author much admired for his bittersweet portraits of Chicago life. His collected Roy Stories, semi-autobiographical tales about a boy growing up in the city during the Forties and Fifties, were published together for the first time in 2013.
Rob Christopher’s documentary Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago, which is screening at this year’s Cheltenham International Film Festival, explores the impact of the Roy Stories and the world they reflect, whilst telling something of Gifford’s own story. Rob and I got talking when his film premièred at the Glasgow Film Festival earlier in the year, and recently connected online to talk about the film. I congratulated him on his study with its high shelves overflowing with.
- 6/10/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Cities are special. Each one has its own particular idiosyncrasies–little places, and moments of culture that make it stand out in the world, nuances that could never be understood by the people that don’t live in those worlds. The breathtaking specialness of one’s own city is something that isn’t truly realized without distance from it, without contemplation on a life where you aren’t walking down those streets or seeing the places that have become fundamental to your views or the world. On the surface, most cities are similar from a distance. An outsider might not be able to tell the difference in iconography between a city like Chicago and another metropolis, but each one has its stories and characters that eclipse the confines of city blocks and asphalt.
Roy’s World is primarily a documentary about that feeling of uniqueness–about the beautiful events and...
Roy’s World is primarily a documentary about that feeling of uniqueness–about the beautiful events and...
- 6/9/2020
- by Logan Kenny
- The Film Stage
Our Ladies stars Marli Sui, Tallulah Grieve, Eve Austin, Sally Messham and Abigail Lawrie on the red carpet Photo: Eoin Carey
Most film festivals take a couple of days to get started properly as people travel in from around the world, but by Friday morning the Glasgow Film Festival was in full swing. Despite distinctly less cooperative weather than the previous day, there was a good sized crowd at the Gft for the morning screening of Planet Of The Apes – the Charlton Heston original, of course – with fans discussing how much they loved it and how great it was to get the chance to see it on the big screen.
Roy's World director and producer Rob Christopher and Michael Glover Photo: Kat Gollock
After all the excited talk about The True History Of The Kelly Gang the previous night, many fans who had missed it took the opportunity to see...
Most film festivals take a couple of days to get started properly as people travel in from around the world, but by Friday morning the Glasgow Film Festival was in full swing. Despite distinctly less cooperative weather than the previous day, there was a good sized crowd at the Gft for the morning screening of Planet Of The Apes – the Charlton Heston original, of course – with fans discussing how much they loved it and how great it was to get the chance to see it on the big screen.
Roy's World director and producer Rob Christopher and Michael Glover Photo: Kat Gollock
After all the excited talk about The True History Of The Kelly Gang the previous night, many fans who had missed it took the opportunity to see...
- 3/1/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
World premieres include Julian Jarrold’s biopic ’Sulphur And White’ and Anthony Baxter’s documentary ‘Flint’.
The Glasgow Film Festival has revealed the full programme for its 16th edition, which will run from February 26 to March 8.
The line-up features nine world premieres throughout the programme, including Julian Jarrold’s biopic Sulphur And White, starring Mark Stanley as real-life mountaineer and charity campaigner David Tait who faced long-buried childhood trauma.
The festival will also debut documentaries Flint, from Scottish director Anthony Baxter (You’ve Been Trumped) about the Michigan city’s toxic water scandal; and Robbie Fraser’s Pictures From Afghanistan,...
The Glasgow Film Festival has revealed the full programme for its 16th edition, which will run from February 26 to March 8.
The line-up features nine world premieres throughout the programme, including Julian Jarrold’s biopic Sulphur And White, starring Mark Stanley as real-life mountaineer and charity campaigner David Tait who faced long-buried childhood trauma.
The festival will also debut documentaries Flint, from Scottish director Anthony Baxter (You’ve Been Trumped) about the Michigan city’s toxic water scandal; and Robbie Fraser’s Pictures From Afghanistan,...
- 1/29/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
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