Living in Oblivion 1995

Critics score:
88 / 100

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Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A hip indie version of Truffaut's Day for Night, Living in Oblivion celebrates the very act of filmmaking as grand folly, a triumph of absurdist heroism. Read more

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Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: A very funny picture that presents the world of independent film making as a nightmare of conflicting egos, budgetary squalor and incompetence. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: A treat. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: So you wanna make a movie? Well, first, you should see "Living in Oblivion," Tom DiCillo's savagely funny satire of the world of independent filmmaking. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: "Oblivion" has a surrealistic, guilty-fun quality. It feels almost too good to be true. Read more