Barry Gifford
Nacimiento : 1946-10-18, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Historia
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Barry Gifford (born October 18, 1946) is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and film noir- and Beat Generation-influenced literary madness.
He is best known for his series of novels about Sailor and Lula, two sex-driven, star-crossed protagonists on the road. The first of the series, Wild at Heart, was adapted by director David Lynch for the 1990 film of the same title. Gifford went on to write the screenplay for Lost Highway with Lynch. Perdita Durango was adapted into film by Alex de la Iglesia. Much of Gifford's work is nonfiction.
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Himself
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.
Writer
A performance of some of Nelson Algren's greatest and least known works, performed live at the Steppenwolf theatre in Algren's hometown, Chicago.
Nelson Algren
A performance of some of Nelson Algren's greatest and least known works, performed live at the Steppenwolf theatre in Algren's hometown, Chicago.
Story
American professor Robert Traum embarks on an adventurous and amusing journey through Bucovina to find Sami the projectionist, the only person alive that can tell him anything about his Romanian Jewish descent. His symbolic journey is filled with danger, the unknown and the surreal, but finally rewarded with a double love: on the one hand he finds romantic love, on the other the passion for old cinema, nomad, popular, naive and generous.
Jack
American professor Robert Traum embarks on an adventurous and amusing journey through Bucovina to find Sami the projectionist, the only person alive that can tell him anything about his Romanian Jewish descent. His symbolic journey is filled with danger, the unknown and the surreal, but finally rewarded with a double love: on the one hand he finds romantic love, on the other the passion for old cinema, nomad, popular, naive and generous.
Narrator
Filled with humor and defining experiences in both his own life and in the lives of some of his closest friends, William Faulkner and Robert Aldrich, as well as on his late wife, screenwriter Silvia Richards, Mr. Bezzerides offers colorful reflections as to why he and his typewriter unabashedly need to keep creating honest characters, worlds, and stories. Through recently discovered boxes of photographs, film clips, the haunting music by Fugazi, interviews (including Jules Dassin, Mickey Spillane and Barry Gifford) and testaments to his progressive creativity from other writers, Fay Lellios' straight-ahead documentary gives us a start in discovering this 97-year-old proletariat storyteller, and the meaning of his favorite phrase by Carl Jung, "There can be no birth of consciousness without pain."
Screenplay
Tras el paso de un terrible huracán por la costa este de los Estados Unidos, Jimmy es acusado de una estafa de seguros, pero, en realidad, el autor es Marvin, su jefe, que ha huido con el dinero. Poco a poco Jimmy se da cuenta de la magnitud de la estafa y de la cantidad de víctimas inocentes afectadas por ella. Intentando seguir la pista de Marvin acaba en Camboya. Allí, en una ambiente misterioso y hostil, Jimmy se enamora de la atractiva arqueóloga Sophie y, con la ayuda del misterioso Kaspar, dará con su jefe, que está de nuevo implicado en una estafa. (FILMAFFINITY)
Se stesso
Screenplay
Romeo Dolorosa y su amante Perdita Durango rinden un siniestro culto, para el cual necesitan sacrificios humanos. En un itinerario físico-amoral con rumbo a Las Vegas secuestrarán a una pareja de jóvenes.
Self
Documental sobre la obra de David Lynch más allá de su faceta como cineasta: su obra como pintor, fotógrafo y escultor, sus obsesiones artísticas, etc. Incluye entrevistas con sus amigos y con profesionales que han trabajado con él.
Writer
Fred Madison, un músico de Jazz, recibe una serie de misteriosas cintas de video en las que aparece con su mujer Renée dentro de su propia casa. En la última, que Fred ve a solas, junto a él aparece su esposa muerta.
Screenplay
Durante un permiso carcelario, Sailor va a ver a su novia Lula y ambos deciden huir a California. La madre de la chica, que se opone a esta relación, se pone en contacto con un mafioso para que elimine a Sailor. En realidad, quiere deshacerse de él porque el joven presenció cómo ella y su amante asesinaban a su marido. La huida de Sailor y Lula va acompañada de turbios acontecimientos y sórdidos recuerdos.
Author
Durante un permiso carcelario, Sailor va a ver a su novia Lula y ambos deciden huir a California. La madre de la chica, que se opone a esta relación, se pone en contacto con un mafioso para que elimine a Sailor. En realidad, quiere deshacerse de él porque el joven presenció cómo ella y su amante asesinaban a su marido. La huida de Sailor y Lula va acompañada de turbios acontecimientos y sórdidos recuerdos.
Writer
Raymond is hired to spy on Mark, an American businessman, in a steamy coastal town in Northern Brazil. However, things get complicated when he falls simultaneously for Mark's wife, Lucia, and her identical twin sister, Lea.
Screenplay
A drama set in the 1920s hobo underworld and centered on the unusual friendship between an adventurer and a young prostitute alongside Black's life on the road, in prison and his various criminal capers in the American and Canadian west from the late 1880s to early 20th century.
