“Living in Oblivion” (1995) — directed by Tom Dicillo.
Daniel Battsek, director of Film4, believes that “Living in Oblivion” is a film that everyone should see and describes it as “a Dr Strangelove-style wickedly funny satire on the perils of low(no!)-budget independent filmmaking, directed by the underrated Tim DiCillo.
“Steve Buscemi is perfectly cast as ‘Nick’ — a director on the edge of a nervous breakdown. But my favorite character is ‘Wolf’ (Dermot Mulroney), the cameraman sporting a beret, black leather vest, and a whole load of artistic ‘attitude,'” Battsek said.
“One from the Heart” (1982) — directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
“The Telluride Film Festival has just celebrated another of Francis Ford Coppola’s under-appreciated masterworks, ‘The Cotton Club,’ but this one actually bankrupted his Zoetrope Studio so I think takes the biscuit,” Film4’s director Daniel Battsek said.
“It’s a Las Vegas set (anti)love story where protagonists Terri Garr and Frederic Forrest have ‘fantasy’ romantic liaisons with Raul Julia and Nastassja Kinsky in order to sure up their rocky relationship.
“There’s some weird mumbo jumbo technical process which made the movie look beautiful but fake and probably doubled the budget for no noticeable gain.”
