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Living in Oblivion.
Beginning a new series of reviews of Movies about Movies. This one, Tom DiCillo's hard-edged comedy about low-budget independent film-making. The film marks the screen debut of Peter Dinklage. This summer he's a star in TV's Game of Thrones and the big screen's X-Men: Days of Future Past. Sadly in 1995, he was just a novelty dwarf.

I'll talk about a dozen or more films this summer.

Today: Living in Oblivion (Tom DiCillo, 1995)
Next: Day for Night (François Truffaut, 1973)


Writer Director Tom DiCillo writes about "Living in Oblivion"
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Living in Oblivion
Directed by Tom DiCillo
Produced by Michael Griffiths, Marcus Viscidi
Written by Tom DiCillo
Starring:
Steve Buscemi
Catherine Keener
Dermot Mulroney
James LeGros
Peter Dinklage
Kevin Corrigan
Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics
Released: July 21, 1995 (USA)
Running time: 90 minutes


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