Living in Oblivion (1995)
Directed by Tom DiCillo
Low-budget independent filmmaker Nick Reve tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious beret-wearing director of photography, and lousy catering.
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(There are echoes of the fraying realities of the fictional directors played by Steve Buscemi in Living in Oblivion and Philip Seymour Hoffman in Synecdoche, New York .)
His star had been stuck in supporting roles, most memorably in "Living in Oblivion," where he gives an impassioned speech about the unfairness of dwarfs always being cast in dream sequences.
Living in Oblivion, in which Peter Dinklage rails against the director for using dwarfs in dream sequences.
Written and directed by Tom McCarthy, "The Station Agent" (which was screened at the Journal News Film Club in September) stars Peter Dinklage, an actor of small stature whom you may have seen in films as diverse as "Living in Oblivion" and "Human Nature."
There's a scene in Tom DiCillo's riotous comedy Living in Oblivion (1995) in which the hapless, low-budget art-movie director (Steve Buscemi) attempts to shoot a nightmare sequence with the heroine (Catherine Keener) and an ominous dwarf (Peter Dinklage).
No Mini-Me jokes please—Dinklage is hardly an angry dwarf in the Howard Stern sense, but anyone who’s seen Tom DiCillo’s inside-indie Living in Oblivion will remember the actor as Tito, who delivers a hysterical dressing-down to hapless director Steve Buscemi about how not even dwarves dream about dwarves.
Consider that old saw of a dwarf actor enlisted for a surreal dream sequence in an art film (already definitively put out to pasture by Tom DiCillo's Living in Oblivion ), here made "palatable" by having said little person be a bigoted prig given to hiring Dutch whores and frequenting Ray's drug-dealer love interest (Clémence Poésy).
This diminutive dyspeptic, Jimmy (Jordan Prentice, in a peculiar gloss on Peter Dinklage's role in Living in Oblivion) keeps himself entertained with hookers and drugs, the latter provided by Chloe (Poesy), who Ray comes to see as a kindred spirit.
As per the satire in Living in Oblivion, the scene being shot features a dwarf (Jordan Prentice) in a dream sequence.