Living in Oblivion (1995)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 31
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 4
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Average Rating: 8.4/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 0
No consensus yet.
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Following up his debut, Johnny Suede, director Tom DiCillo presented this filmmaking comedy that allegedly draws much from DiCillo's experiences on the set of the 1991 Brad Pitt vehicle. Steve Buscemi stars as Nick Reve, the long-suffering director of a no-budget independent film. If he's not dealing with his heartbroken director of photography Wolf (Dermot Mulroney), Reve is trying to keep his leading lady Nicole (DiCillo mainstay Catherine Keener) happy or ignore the pseudo-auteur suggestions
Jul 14, 1995 Wide
Feb 11, 2003
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Steve Buscemi
Nick Reve -
Catherine Keener
Nicole Springer -
Dermot Mulroney
Wolf -
Danielle von Zerneck
Wanda -
James LeGros
Chad Palomino -
Rica Martens
Cora -
Peter Dinklage
Tito -
Robert Wightman
Gaffer -
Hilary Gilford
Script -
Kevin Corrigan
Assistant Camera -
Matthew Grace
Boom -
Michael Griffiths
Sound Mixer -
Tom Jarmusch
Driver/Intern -
Ryan Bowker
Food Service/Clapper -
Francesca DiMauro
Production assistant -
Lori Tan Chinn
Costume Designer -
Norman Field
Hair/Make-up Artist
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All Critics (32) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (4) | DVD (7)
A hip indie version of Truffaut's Day for Night, Living in Oblivion celebrates the very act of filmmaking as grand folly, a triumph of absurdist heroism.
Top CriticA treat.
A very funny picture that presents the world of independent film making as a nightmare of conflicting egos, budgetary squalor and incompetence.
"Oblivion" has a surrealistic, guilty-fun quality. It feels almost too good to be true.
So you wanna make a movie? Well, first, you should see "Living in Oblivion," Tom DiCillo's savagely funny satire of the world of independent filmmaking.
DiCillo effectively uses dream sequences and black-and-white film to spoof the pretentiousness of indie films, but remains thoughtful and clever throughout. And every performance is spot-on.
Probably the best and funniest of the mid-'90s crop of movies about making movies.
A valentine to the independent film world, DiCillo's version of Truffaut's Night for Day offers a smart, amusing look at the perils of low-budget filmmaking; the ensemble acting is superb.
Really clever little comedy about low-budget filmmaking with Buscemi at his best.
Sluggish, dumbly overpraised farce about an indie movie I would never see, but I still might pick over this one.
Meaty and witty, the sort of product that rewards a closer examination even as it buggers intimacy.
Desperately funny.
Audience Reviews for Living in Oblivion
Super Reviewer
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- Tito: Have you ever had a dream with a dwarf in it? Do you know anyone who's had a dream with a dwarf in it? No! I don't even have dreams with dwarves in them. The only place I've seen dwarves in dreams is in stupid movies like this! 'Oh make it weird, put a dwarf in it!'. Everyone will go 'Woah, this must be a fuckin' dream, there's a fuckin' dwarf in it!'. Well I'm sick of it! You can take this dream sequence and stick it up your ass!
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