The Date:
December 13
The Movie: Living in Oblivion (1995)
What Is It?: Tom
DiCillo expands an indie short film poking fun at indie filmmaking into an
indie feature film poking fun at indie filmmaking, Brad Pitt (though DiCillo
denies it), David Lynch (though DiCillo denies it), and Hollywood’s depictions
of little people (not sure where DiCillo stands on this). Everyone in this
movie is fucking brilliant, so it kills me to single out the brilliance of
Steve Buscemi as the director, Rica Martens as his mom, Dermot Mulroney as the
cinematographer, Peter Dinklage and Catherine Kenner as actors, and James
LeGros as a Hostess Twinkie Motherfucker. Everyone else is brilliant too…
even the boom operator! It's not his fault the frame-line keep changing.
Why Today?: On
this day in 1957, Steve Buscemi is born.
