Living in Oblivion

UPC: 043396078819

Studio: Columbia TriStar

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Adult Language, Adult Humor]

Summary: 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 of Pitt-inspired name-actor Chad Palomino (James LeGros). All the while, the audience can't ever be sure if the scene they're watching is a dream or reality. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Awards: Best Picture – Independent Spirit Awards Best Screenplay – Independent Spirit Awards Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Independent Spirit Awards Best Supporting Actor – Independent Spirit Awards Screenwriting Prize: Dramatic – Sundance Film Festival Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Sundance Film Festival

Features: ccDirector's commentary
Deleted scenes
Interview with Tom DiCillo and Steve Buscemi
Digitally mastered audio and anamorphic video
Widescreen presentation
Audio: English
Bonus trailers
Interactive menus
Scene selections

Living in Oblivion

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 02/11/2003

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Runtime: 90 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. Start [1:56]
2. The Crew [1:51]
3. Nicole + Cora [3:54]
4. Scene 6, Takes 1-4 [4:50]
5. Ten Minute Break [1:31]
6. Scene 6, Take 5 [2:22]
7. Scene 6, Takes 6 + 7 [2:10]
8. Motivated Line Reading [8:40]
9. Chad + Nicole [1:15]
10. No Fluff for Chad [1:33]
11. Bob + Maurice [4:17]
12. Scene 6, Takes 1 + 2 [5:20]
13. Scene 6, Takes 3 + 4 [5:29]
14. Nick + Nicole [1:07]
15. Wolf's Eye Patch [2:04]
16. Scene 6, Take 4 [1:10]
17. "I Can't Act With That Woman." [2:19]
18. Scene 6, Take 5 [2:13]
19. Dealing With a Twinkie [1:54]
20. Dreams [2:51]
21. Rehearsing Scene 6 [4:56]
22. Scene 6, Takes 1 + 2 [1:18]
23. A Word in Private [3:27]
24. Scene 6, Take 3 [2:09]
25. Picking on Her All Day [2:49]
26. Scene 6, Take 4 [2:21]
27. Taking Over for Tito [4:23]
28. 30 Seconds of Silence [2:20]

Lucia Bozzola

As a film school graduate, cinematographer on Stranger Than Paradise (1984), and director of indie film Johnny Suede (1991), Tom DiCillo clearly knew all the perils of low-budget filmmaking, and he put that knowledge to hilarious use in his second feature, Living in Oblivion (1995). The rare reflexive parody that succeeds, Living in Oblivion's three nightmares run the gamut of potential snafus that could plague auteur Nick Reve's production. Between sending up nerve-fraying technical gaffes and such "arty" clich?s as dream sequences with dwarves and a cinematographer fixated on hand-held shots, DiCillo's satire hits a comic high point with the introduction of James Le Gros' preening, glad-handing Brad Pitt-esque leading man Chad Palomino, the ultimate star run amok. Though Le Gros dominates his section of the film, Catherine Keener's spiky leading lady and Steve Buscemi's long-haired, goateed Nick easily hold their comic own. Even as everything seems to fall apart, DiCillo's affection for the process remains palpable, particularly in the final coda of dreams fulfilled. A Sundance Film Festival smash, Living in Oblivion vaulted DiCillo to the forefront of 1990s independent cinema, and burnished the reputations of indie stars Buscemi, Le Gros, and Keener. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Tom DiCillo  Director 
Tom DiCillo  Screenwriter 
Marcus Viscidi  Producer 
Jim Farmer  Composer (Music Score) 
Hilary Gilford  Executive Producer 
Michael Griffiths  Producer 
Robert Sertner  Producer 
Frank Von Zerneck  Producer 
Steve Buscemi  Actor 
Catherine Keener  Actor 
Dermot Mulroney  Actor 
Danielle von Zerneck  Actor 
James LeGros  Actor 
Rica Martens  Actor 
Peter Dinklage  Actor 
Robert Wightman  Actor 
Hilary Gilford  Actor 
Kevin Corrigan  Actor 
Matthew Grace  Actor 
Michael Griffiths  Actor 
Tom Jarmusch  Actor 
Ryan Bowker  Actor 
Francesca DiMauro  Actor 
Lori Tan Chinn  Actor 
Norman Field  Actor 

Country: USA