Youth and Experience: Leads Talks Filmmaking Truths at Tribeca

Heather Kafka and Bryan Poyser on the reality of aging indie

"...in the indie filmmaking trenches in Living in Oblivion, Tom DiCillo’s thinly-veiled jab at his own miserable experiences making..."

June 5, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Crossroads, Crafts, and Close Encounters in Our Recommended Events

The workweek is chockablock with do-able things

"...Often called an ode to indie film, the Tom DiCillo black comedy might be best remembered lately for..."

May 16, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Cinema41: One Year Old and Still Indie as Indie Can Be

Cinema 41 celebrates their one-year anniversary

"...Tonight's screening, Tom DiCillo's 1993 film Living in Oblivion, nicely dovetails with..."

April 5, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

SXSW 2010 Film Audience Awards

SXSW Film announces the last of its awards; no surprise, Fest fave Thunder Soul nabs a win

"...When You're Strange: A Film About the Doors (D: Tom DiCillo) Lone Star States..."

March 26, 2010 Screens Feature

Bucking Categorization

Character actor Sam Rockwell slips into a new guise in the goofy comedy Gentlemen Broncos

"...SAG map, from his quietly affecting breakout performance in Tom DiCillo's Box of Moonlight to his raging take on..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced

What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!

"...Luckey Director: Laura Longsworth After sculptor Tom Luckey’s devastating fall through a window, his family must..."

Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Coffee and Cigarettes

Jim Jarmusch's new brew is lukewarm.

"...Wright, Joie Lee, Cinqué Lee, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Joe Rigano, Vinny Vella, Vinny Vella Jr., Renee..."

July 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

"...for self-erasing comedy has been evident at least since Tom DiCillo's 1996 film Box of Moonlight (and was bolstered..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kind to Be Cruel

It's all Lovely & Amazing to actress Catherine Keener.

"...and Jonze have enlisted her talents twice, indie filmmaker Tom DiCillo four times). She brushes their dedication off with..."

July 19, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Bartleby

"...(Imagine the ponderous dream sequences from the film-within-a-film in Tom DiCillo's Living in Oblivion, but without the dwarf, for..."

June 14, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Cassavetes on Cassavetes

"...revolution of the past 15 or more years. No Tom DiCillo, no Coen Brothers, certainly no John Turturro (an..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Frogs for Snakes

"...ambivalent edge of American indie filmmaking for some time (Tom DiCillo's meandering Box of Moonlight springs to mind as..."

May 28, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Real Blonde

"...Directed by: Tom Dicillo. Starring: Matthew Modine, Catherine Keener, Daryl Hannah, Maxwell..."

May 29, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...The clawed toe of Godzilla has finally set down..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Reflections

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98

"...A special hell is reserved for bartenders and cabdrivers,..."

March 20, 1998 Screens Feature

Box of Moonlight

"...Directed by: Tom Dicillo. Starring: John Turturro, Sam Rockwell, Catherine Keener, Lisa..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Irma Vep

Assayas' camerawork and editing recall the glory days of the French New Wave, while Cheung holds the center as an actress caught up in the behind-the-scenes mayhem on a creative film set.

"...take on the madness inherent in independent filmmaking rivals Tom DiCillo's Living in Oblivion as the most realistic depiction..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hot Movie Previews

Sneaking Into Summer

"...film's narrative was informed by Louise J. Kaplan's non-fiction tome of the same title. (May 23) GONE FISHIN'..."

May 23, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Land of 1,000 Dances

Sundance Film Festival 1997

"...in Hugo Pool; Living in Oblivion and Johnny Suede's Tom DiCillo's quirky new effort Box of Moonlight which stars..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Festival Snapshots

The Toronto International Film Festival

"...always get bounced into the suspicious people's line at customs, I dash in the pouring rain to pick up..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Walking and Talking

"...performance. Long the favorite leading lady of independent director Tom DiCillo (Living in Oblivion, Johnny Suede), Keener's talents deserve..."

Aug. 9, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Living in Oblivion

"...Directed by: Tom DiCillo. Starring: Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney and..."

Sept. 1, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scanlines

"...D: Tom DiCillo; with Brad Pitt, Catherine Keener, Alison Moir, Tina..."

Aug. 18, 1995 Arts Feature

Scanlines

"...D: Tom DiCillo; with Brad Pitt, Catherine Keener, Alison Moir, Tina..."

Aug. 11, 1995 Arts Feature

Johnny Suede

"...Directed by: Tom DiCillo. Starring: Brad Pitt, Catherine Keener, Calvin Levels, Allison..."

Nov. 6, 1992 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce