Odds are strong that at one point or another, a large portion of this website’s readership have contemplated making a movie, and if so, Tom Dicillo’s 1995 Living in Oblivion is the quintessential filmmaker’s movie for them.
While there are plenty of movies about the rewards and pitfalls of making movies out there, the majority take place in the wackily excessive world of Hollywood, glamorizing it as the dream-maker that so many grow up believing it to be.
Recently, Damien Chazelle’s Babylon-2013-movie-posters/”>Babylon fought against Hollywood’s glamorization by highlighting the early days of the industry for the bloody, cocaine-fueled carelessness that defined it.
But if Babylon-2013-movie-posters/”>Babylon seems to posit the question: what if your heroes were in fact ruthless megalomaniacs as corrupt and flawed as the rest of us, Living in Oblivion seems to more lightly ask: what if your heroes were just as troubled, lost, and…
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