Advantages: Well acted, keeps you engaged throughout Disadvantages: None
Living In Oblivion is a low budget independent film written and directed by Tom DiCillo and starring Steve Buscemi and Dermot Mulroney.
Sure, these aren't A-list stars, but that lends itself to the story. If it was a film about the making of a film and you had George Clooney and Brad Pitt pretending to be small time actors you wouldn't believe it. That's why it was better to use less well known actors, it pulls you more into the story.
The film ... ...budget movie, and documents all the problems that the director, Nick (Buscemi), and everyone else can encounter, from equipment malfunctioning to office politics to actors forgetting their lines. It's almost like a documentary, it is very realistic and gives you the complete story as to what it's like trying to get a film made.
There are a few dream sequences in the film too, so you're wondering if what you're watching is really happening. It mirrors ...
Walter_Kovacs 30.01.2009
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Advantages: Very funny film- with great performances Disadvantages: Not availiable on Region 2 DVD- only VHS!
Living In Oblivion remains one of 1990s cinema's most overlooked gems Coming out at the tale end of the late '80s/ ealry '90s US indie revival, which launched the careers of Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh to name but a few, this was overshadowed by many other great films of '94, including Pulp Fiction.
Steve Buscemi stars as a budding auteur, facing crisis after crisis on his latest film. Not only is his "star" (leGros) trying ... ...Mulroney) is suffering from a personal crisis, the female lead, played by Catherine Keener, is suffering from a breakup and his supporting cast, including Peter Dinklage (recently seen in The Station Agent) is not co-operating. Are these recurring nightmares, prophecies or what is really happening?
Released shortly after Robert Altman's "The Player", this is a far more effective spin on the working of the film industry. The claustrophobia and constantly ...
Rosebud1985 07.06.2004
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Steve Buscemi is Nick Reve a luckless low-budget director struggling against all odds to ... more
get his artistic vision onto the screen. The big name leading man arrives on set with a big ego and some scene-improving ideas of his own the leading lady has co...
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