Barry Gifford
Nascimento : 1946-10-18, Chicago, Illinois, United States
História
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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
Sendo atualmente alvo de investigações por parte do Governo dos Estados Unidos, Jimmy Cremming (Matt Dillon) deseja apenas se livrar dos negócios escusos os quais coordena e conseguir um pouco de tranquilidade para seguir sua vida. Ele descobre que Marvin (James Caan), seu mentor, conseguiu este intento após viajar para o Camboja. Jimmy decide seguir seus passos e também parte rumo ao sudeste asiático, mas logo descobre que para conseguir a tranquilidade desejada terá que pagar seu preço.
Se stesso
Screenplay
She's sexy, shameless and loves taking people to their limit. She's a dangerous young woman who dreams about a jaguar that licks her naked body and sleeps by her side. Her past is bathed in blood and weird passions. Now she's met the man of her wildest dreams. He's dark, tough and mysterious. He likes robbing banks, trafficking in corpses and spicing it all with voodoo rituals. Together, the duo sets off toward Mexico destined to become the most feared outlaws in the continent.
Self
An in-depth look at artist/filmmaker David Lynch's movies, paintings, drawings, photographs, and various other works of art. Features interview footage and commentary by family members, friends, fans, and people he's worked with, as well as behind-the-scenes antics of some of his most critically praised efforts.
Writer
Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) é acusado, sob misteriosas circunstâncias, de matar sua esposa Renee (Patricia Arquette). Ele logo se vê transformado em um outro homem, Pete Dayton (Balthazar Getty), possuindo uma vida completamente diferente. Quando Pete é solto no seu corpo e na sua mente, as coisas ficam cada vez mais misteriosas e intrigantes.
Screenplay
Depois de passar um tempo na prisão, Sailor Ripley reencontra sua namorada, Lula Fortune, e eles viajam para a Califórnia. A mãe de Lula não aceita o namoro e contrata um assassino profissional para matar Sailor.
Author
Depois de passar um tempo na prisão, Sailor Ripley reencontra sua namorada, Lula Fortune, e eles viajam para a Califórnia. A mãe de Lula não aceita o namoro e contrata um assassino profissional para matar Sailor.
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.
