Watch Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago

Hailed as William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn paperbacks and Sun Records rockabilly, author Barry Gifford has given the world more than forty works, including the novel that inspired David Lynch's WILD AT HEART. 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.

Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago is a 2022 documentary with a runtime of 1 hour and 15 minutes. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 8.0.