Glasgow Film Festival: Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago, CCA
29 February, 2020
CCA, 350 Sauhiehall Street, G2 3JD
Both screenings will be followed by a Q&A with director Rob Christopher and producer Michael Glover Smith.
Hailed as ‘William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn paperbacks, and Sun Records rockabilly’ poet, author and screenwriter Barry Gifford has given the world more than forty works including the Sailor and Lula novels that inspired Wild At Heart. Rob Christopher brilliantly brings to life Gifford’s autobiographical collection The Roy Stories, capturing a childhood in a vanished 1950s Chicago through a jazzy, impressionistic combination of beguiling archive footage, animation and spoken word (Willem Dafoe, Lili Taylor) that is reminiscent of Terence Davies’ Of Time And The City.
Thanks to Rob Christopher
This section: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2020, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Related Pages
- Music Night with Freedom From Torture and H4TH
- Woodlands Anti-Racist Film Club – Dreamers (2025)
- The Old Oak, Screening Maryhill Burgh Halls
- “Murder, murder, polis, three stairs up!” An Evening in Taggart’s Glasgow
- Take 2: Flushed Away at GFT
- Carlton Jug Band – Avant Garde
- Author Talk With Ian Rankin
- Caroline Walker In Conversation at The Hunterian
- Anti-Racist Community Library – Woodlands Community Black History Month 2026
- CRER Black History Walking Tour – Black History Month October 2026
- Black History Month October 2026
- Specialist Tour | Black History Month: African Women, Myth and Material Memory
- Best Shot: How to Get Published with Sheila Wakefield
- Rip it Up at GFT
- Sense and Sensibility at GFT
- Le Bouchet at GFT
- Manhunter The Final Cut – 40th Anniversary at GFT
- Take 2: Barbie at GFT
- Children’s Walk for Gaza, Glasgow Green
- Black History Month 2026 at GFT