DiCillo Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives

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October 10, 2015

The famed Anthology Film Archives in NYC is having a retrospective of some of my films. They'll be showing 35mm prints of Living In Oblivion and Delirious. Steve Buscemi will be joining me at both screenings,  plus some other members of the casts.

I'm equally excited that Anthology will be premiering my new film Down In Shadowland.

DICILLO RETROSPECTIVE AT THE ANTHOLOGY

My great thanks to Jed Rapfogel at the Anthology for pulling this all together.

Anthology Film Archives

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November 10 – November 11

FILMMAKER IN PERSON FOR ALL SHOWS! STEVE BUSCEMI IN PERSON ON WED, NOV 11!

Tom DiCillo is a key figure in the wave of bold and vividly inventive independent narrative filmmaking that reinvigorated film culture in the U.S. in the 1980s and 90s. After training as a director at NYU’s Graduate Film School, he made his mark with the 1991 feature film, JOHNNY SUEDE, and went on to direct five more feature films (as well as the Doors documentary WHEN YOU’RE STRANGE), all of which have established him as a keen and deadpan funny chronicler of American culture (whether that of music, filmmaking, celebrity, or of society at large), as well as a peerless director of actors. His films mix genres and tones in elegant and innovative ways and are studded with performances by a who’s-who of gifted performers such as Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener, Kevin Corrigan, Sam Rockwell, Peter Dinklage, and Denis Leary.

Despite all this, DiCillo hasn’t found it any easier to get his projects funded over the past decade. Taking matters into his own hands, he has returned to a more self-reliant, handmade mode of filmmaking for his latest work. Made over the course of seven years, DOWN IN SHADOWLAND is an impressionistic, haunting portrait of the NYC subway system. Filmed secretly, in the tradition of Walker Evans’s renowned Subway Portraits, SHADOWLAND is at once a vérité portrait of the world beneath New Yorkers’ feet, and an evocative, carefully structured, almost musical filmic composition. Taking the subway as a microcosm of the world at large, it combines the private and the public, the personal and the political.

Anthology is thrilled to host Tom DiCillo for screenings of DOWN IN SHADOWLAND as well as two of his finest fiction features, LIVING IN OBLIVION and DELIRIOUS.

Special thanks to Tom DiCillo; Richard Abramowitz (Abramorama); David Spencer & Matt Jones (University of North Carolina School of the Arts); and Alexandre Mallet-Guy & Rémi Dupéroux (Memento Films).

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Comments
Congrats Tom!!!!
That’s fabulous news. I really want to fly up there and see it. We’ll see if the magic can happen – esp since I missed seeing Delirious in theaters before.
Great news & so glad it’s coming together!
Elaine

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TOM DICILLO

Independent Filmmaker & Musician