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Living in Oblivion

Released 1995
Distributor Shout Factory

A low budget satire about the perils of low budget filmmaking, writer/director Tom DiCillo tells his story in three acts, two of them being actual nightmares, the third just possibly real life. Steve Buscemi plays a harried director whose imagination runs wild on the first day of shooting his new film and his cast, including Catherine Keener and Dermot Mulroney, are not immune to the chaos. Funny and admirably inventive, the film charmed critics and remains a touchstone for nervous moviemakers.

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About David Zeiger

Guggenheim Fellow David Zeiger has been making documentary films and series for 20 years, starting with The Band, a film about his son’s junior year in high school, broadcast on the PBS series P.O.V. in 1997. His short documentary, Funny Old Guys, was broadcast in 2002 by HBO. His 2006 film, Sir! No Sir!, ran theatrically in 65 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada and was broadcast in 200 countries worldwide. It won Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Film Festival (Audience Award) and Hamptons Film Festival, and Seeds of War Award at the Full Frame Documentary Festival. In 2010 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2012 completed his first narrative feature, Sweet Old World.

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Jenny Agutter fan

Saw it years ago. I already knew about Steve Buscemi, but later on I learned about Peter Dinklage and realized that he played the dwarf.

Another cast member is Danielle von Zerneck, who played Donna (the inspiration for Ritchie Valens’s song) in La Bamba.