RAYMOND J.BARRY

Gasparilla Film Festival to honor Raymond J. Barry for career work

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:29:57 +0000

Raymond J. Barry is the 2010 recipient of the Career Achievement Award at the fourth annual Gasparilla Film Festival.

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The Gasparilla International Film Festival (“GIFF”) is one of Florida’s largest and fastest growing film festivals. GIFF, organized and operated by the non-profit Tampa Film Institute, is dedicated to expanding art opportunities in the Tampa Bay community through the medium and culture of independent film. GIFF’s specific mission statement is to promote opportunities for film makers and film fans alike to create and enjoy independent film in the Tampa Bay area. GIFF’s most notable contribution to the community is to host an annual, competitive film festival every March in downtown Tampa and South Tampa bringing in over 100 films from around the world, with a sidebar focused on local film. GIFF also brings independent, international programming to the Tampa Bay community year-round through the prestigious Global Lens Series and other independent film screenings.

Walk Hard Premiere

admin — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:16:40 +0000

Walk Hard, The Dewey Cox Story

Walk Hard, directed by Jake Kasdan and featuring Raymond J. Barry as Pa Cox, premieres December 21, 2007

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Raymond J. Barry nominated for an Independent Spirit Award

admin — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:53:52 +0000

Steel City, Directed by Brian Jun

Director: Brian Jun

Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival, 2006

Raymond J. Barry has been nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male (2007)

“Quietly absorbing and incisive. A drama in which even the most minor character registers as a full, complicated presence a person who deserves his or her own movie.” Entertainment Weekly

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Interview with the Assassin

admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2001 03:56:53 +0000

Interview with the Assassin,
directed by Neil Burger

Director: Neil Burger

A playwright, theater director and first-rank character actor, Raymond J. Barry has given rich, honest performances in dozens of movies and tv programs, including Year of the Dragon, Dead Man Walking, Born on the Fourth of July (as Ron Kovic’s dad). This is a rare star turn for him, and he never strikes a false note. His workingman’s intensity and lean physique make him credible as a killing machine that never lost his predatory confidence. In every scene Barry plays, you sense Walter’s volatile mix of emotions–pride, fear, anger, dread, guilt, disgust–yet Barry never italicizes any of them, and a few flicker across his face so quickly that you might have to see the movie a second time to catch them. In a just world, he’d get an Oscar nomination as Best Actor. New York Press

Ohlinger is played by Raymond J. Barry, who inhabits this formidable, dead-eyed operative — think Clint Eastwood meets Jack Kevorkian — with an untheatrical conviction that makes him seem exactly what he says he is: a sociopathic military cipher who was hired to kill the president and did so without flinching. Entertainment Weekly

In Mr. Barry, a hardworking character actor whose résumé includes “Training Day” and “Dead Man Walking,” Mr. Burger has a performer who can dart between stentorian self-assurance and cringing pathos, maintaining his character’s ambiguity until the final sequence of this resourceful and ingenious entertainment. New York Times.

The smartest move Neil Burger makes is to keep his sights tightly focused on Barry’s bristling paranoia. Whether softening his military cadences with a touch of the South or shimmying down the outside wall of a motel, the veteran character actor goes a long way toward padding what is a clever conceit. His homespun menace keeps you watching. Los Angeles Times

After striving in vain to cast an unknown in the role of the laconic assassin, Burger went with Barry, a veteran New York stage and film actor. This proves to be a stroke of luck. His deadpan expression and steely, matter-of-fact voice project the chilling demeanor of a man torn by his claim to fame: Pride in a difficult job well done mingles with the shame that an ex-Marine would gun down the country’s chief executive. The Hollywood Reporter

Raymond Barry gives a brilliant performance as Walter Ohlinger, the smoldering, bizarrely unpredictable — yet calculating ex-Marine who burns to tell the tale of how he was the real killer of John F. Kennedy. Variety

“It’s not only fun, but masterful from a purely technical standpoint. Still, the key lies in the performances. Not once did I catch anyone “acting;” all of the actors are wonderful, especially Raymond J. Barry (as Walter the “assassin”), who deserves, but stands no chance of receiving, an Oscar nomination.” Denver Film Festival

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