Living in Oblivion

Living in Oblivion (1995)
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113677/]

The Gist:
Living in Oblivion is one of those films for filmmakers. It is a film about the oft maelstrom of film, what I lovingly refer to as the Murphy's Law of Film, that being of course "whatever can go wrong, will go wrong". That's what this film is, and it shows this through these weird repetitions of one bad day of shooting through the dreams of the director, the actress, and presumably the last segment wasn't a dream but who knows. Anyway, through most of the film its excellent, it has a lot of humor that is given knew meaning through working with film and it does this cool thing where it brings elements from one dream into the other (like the eye patch that the cinematographer is wearing through the whole film, having "hurt" his eye in the second segment). The film as a whole wasn't perfect, it had some muddled moments, it had small tonal issues but for the most part it was solid. That is up until a very anti-climatic ending with a kind of lukewarm sequence of day dreams from the cast and crew. In the end, it still carries a lot of weight in the context of filmmaking but isn't much of a film beyond that.