Living in Oblivion

Living in Oblivion is an indie movie about one day in the life the kaking of an indie movie called Living in Oblivion. We see that day in the form of dream sequences from the point of view of the... Full review

Steve Buscemi may or may not have been the first choice by writer/director Tom DiCillo for the lead role of Nick, the director behind the three (err, one) film(s) being made within the film Living in Oblivion, but it works... Full review

The Sundance film festival award winning comedy film depicts the process of making an independent/student film quite cleverly. Yet another "A movie about making a movie" sub-genre, written and directed by Tom DiCillo, I believe it his best film yet.Sliced... Full review

how nice it feels to see a movie like this one. Steve Buscemi is much more than excellent , the story about different characters trying to make a movie is simple but its the way that the movie is etablished that... Full review

This film captures the true essence of the stresses involved on a film set. The story is about the characters involved in the process rather than the film-within-a-film. While the film is funny it is so close to the bone... Full review

Indie director Tom DiCillo has produced a small (as yet) body of work, but has shown consistent flair for making movies which exude great affection for his characters. This affection is contagious; the actors seem to relish their roles and... Full review

"Living in Oblivion" is one of your video store's coolest secrets. Writer-director Tom Dicillo takes a satiric look at independent films while capturing the ups and downs of making a movie. For the cast and crew of the film within... Full review

For all of us who have worked on a film production before, watching Living in Oblivion is an honor and an enjoyment. For once you have experienced what it is like to work in that kind of atmosphere with that... Full review

Funny, absorbing and smart movie about a no-budget film and the people trying to make it. The movie plays around with reality and dreams without getting too obscure or serious. It's well-done, well-acted (one of those rare movies where the... Full review

This is one of my favorite movies and it aggravates me that it's the kind of movie that always seems to slip through the cracks. In other words, nobody watched it. It's hilariously funny and yet the public in general... Full review

Not a bad flick.....Real funny and it shows you the inside of what goes on when making a film An absolute triumph for Tom DiCillo & the entire brilliant cast!....Probably the best and funniest of the mid-'90s crop of movies about making movies..... ... Full Review

In the end, Living in Oblivion is so charming....So perhaps unsurprisingly, Living in Oblivion itself lacks some coherence;....Living in Oblivion is Tom DiCillo's smart, often hilarious look at independent filmmaking.....the dream sequences, the plucked-straight-from-an-independent-film-set characters, the dwarfs, the fears and hopes of filmmakers.....Living in Oblivion 's fine cast works together like a dream..... ... Full Review

the best films about making films were the ones that not only showed the difficulty of the process....An idiot journalist's diatribe about belly-button cinema is classic.....A French director, who hasn't made a good film in years, is offered a comeback with the remake of the classic silent serial,....Vep" shines because it captures the absurdity of filmmaking -....Ah those wild and crazy film folk..... ... Full Review

Though "Living in Oblivion" may sound like a one-joke movie, the pleasure of the endeavor is that it has no trouble holding your interest without feeling repetitive. The first section, which approximates the half-hour short, is the most ingeniously structured, with color (for the film-within-a-film, also called "Living in Oblivion") alternating with black-and-white. ... Full Review

Living in Oblivion" takes its title from the pretentious-looking movie its ragtag crew of filmmakers is trying to shoot. Constructed as a sequence of deepening, worsening bad dreams, "Living in Oblivion" sometimes runs the risk of feeling arbitrary, and the film loses some steam in its final section. ... Full Review

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Has any film director fallen quite as far as Tom DiCillo? After a masterful debut with his tongue-in-cheek look at filmmaking, Living in Oblivion , DiCillo has turned in a series of progressively more-ignored features, including Box of Moon Light... ... Full Article

The picture, which opens today, is by far his best film.It has the freedom and wild comic sensibility of ``Living in Oblivion,'' but it operates on a much wider canvas, juggling several characters in various walks of life. ... Full Article