Tom DiCillo Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Cinematographer, Screenwriter
Biography:: A filmmaker who was heralded as one of the most exciting members of the 1990's independent film scene, cinematographer-turned-director Tom Di Cillo first made his name as the man behind Johnny Suede, the 1992 film that helped introduce the world to Brad Pitt. Di Cillo subsequently built his...Read More

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Delirious

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Alison Lohman, Gina Gershon, Callie Thorne

Synopsis: Writer/director Tom DiCillo's satire Delirious (2006) eviscerates Hollywood celebrity and celebrity types with a relentlessly dissecting gaze and take-no-prisoners humor. DiCillo mainstay Steve Buscemi stars as Les Galantine, a sleazy and merciless tabloid photographer from the Big Apple, whose Read More

8/15/07
Coffee and Cigarettes

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Steven Wright, Joie Lee, Cinqué Lee, Steve Buscemi

Synopsis: Jim Jarmusch's black-and-white feature Coffee and Cigarettes contains three vignettes originally released as short films along with separate yet somewhat related sketches. As the title suggests, most of the vignettes involve famous people smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee. The first, "Coffee Read More

5/14/04
Monk: Mr. Monk Meets the Playboy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Monk (Tony Shalhoub) is called in to investigate the supposedly accidental" death of of Elliot D'Souza (Mark Tymchyshyn), chief financial officer for the notorious girlie magazine "Sapphire". Elliot's secretary Miss Luden (Fay Masterson) is convinced that he was murdered by Sapphire's publisher Read More

2003
Double Whammy

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Denis Leary, Elizabeth Hurley, Steve Buscemi, Luis Guzman, Victor Argo

Synopsis: A cop tries to sort out his personal life while a wave of odd behavior sweeps through his apartment building in this quirky comedy. Ray Pluto (Dennis Leary) is a New York City police detective who has been in an emotional slump since his wife and daughter died in an accident several years ear. Read More

2001
Independent's Day

Synopsis: The Sundance Channel produced this guided tour through the world of independent films and filmmakers, tossing out the statistic that the movement has escalated from some 50 films in 1985, to 800 in 1997. Interview segments include Sundance fest director Geoffrey Gilmore, fest programmer Bob Hawk Read More

1998
The Real Blonde

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Matthew Modine, Catherine Keener, Daryl Hannah, Maxwell Caulfield, Elizabeth Berkley

Synopsis: This romantic comedy from writer and director Tom DiCillo follows some New York City pals seeking authenticity with the real blonde, a symbol of amorous perfection. Joe (Matthew Modine) is an out-of-work actor struggling for even bit parts in Madonna music videos by groveling in front of a Read More

1997
Box of Moonlight

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: John Turturro, Sam Rockwell, Catherine Keener, Lisa Blount, Dermot Mulroney

Synopsis: In this whimsically absurd comedy, Al Fountain (John Turturro) is an rigidly self-controlled electrical engineer who has discovered his first gray hair and has begun seeing things (bicycles running backwards, coffee pouring from the cup into the pot). To Al's shock, he's fired without notice from Read More

1996
Living in Oblivion

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney, Danielle von Zerneck, James LeGros, Rica Martens

Synopsis: Following up his debut, Johnny Suede, director Tom DiCillo presented this filmmaking comedy that allegedly draws much from DiCillo's experiences on the set of the 1991 Brad Pitt vehicle. Steve Buscemi stars as Nick Reve, the long-suffering director of a no-budget independent film. If he's not Read More

1995
Johnny Suede

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Brad Pitt, Calvin Levels, Alison Moir, Catherine Keener, Tina Louise

Synopsis: Tom DiCillo directed this surrealistic black comedy starring Brad Pitt as Johnny Suede, a young man with an attitude and an immense pompadour, who wants to be a rock n' roll star like his idol Ricky Nelson. He has all the stylistic accouterments, except a pair of black suede shoes. And one night Read More

8/14/92
End of the Night

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Eric Mitchell, Audrey Matson

Synopsis: In this black and white independent melodrama, Joe Belinsky (Eric Mitchell) doesn't know how to cope with his wife's pregnancy and his loss of an insurance agency job, and feels adrift. As a consequence of that, he takes a job working the counter of a low-cost, somewhat hip eatery, and meets a Read More

1990
Laura Ley

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Hilde Van Mieghem, Tom Jansen, Martin Lüttge

Synopsis: This atmospheric melodrama/thriller tells the odd story of a modern-day Lorelei, a woman who lures others to their doom. In the story, the similarly named Laura Ley (Hilde van Mieghem) is a single mother who works as a chambermaid and has a very unusual hobby. When she is off work and her son has Read More

1989
The Beat

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: John Savage, David Jacobson, William McNamara, Kara Glover, Jeffrey Horowitz

Synopsis: This drama is based on a play by Mones and is set within a grim New York neighborhood where a new kid comes to the neighborhood. Unlike the street-wise and life-toughened gang members around him, the youth is a sensitive poet who teaches the kids about the meaning and beauty of life. ~ Sandra Read More

9/16/88
Robert Wilson And The Civil Wars

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Innovative opera composer and director Robert Wilson attempted to create a truly international opera to be performed at the Los Angeles Olympics. Six different composers from six countries were to compose operas from his libretto based on the United States' Civil War. After an initial performance Read More

1987
Robinson's Garden

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kumiko Ohta, Machizo Machida, Yuko Ueno, Mitsuwa Sakamoto

Synopsis: A subtle metaphor for the increasing depersonalization of Japanese society caused by the country's unending obsession with money making, avant-garde filmmaker Masashi Yamamoto's Robinson's Garden offers a powerful commentary on the relative insignificance of Humanity upon the much older, more Read More

1987
Stranger Than Paradise

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Cecillia Stark, Danny Rosen

Synopsis: Although Jim Jarmusch made his directorial debut with Permanent Vacation (1982), Stranger than Paradise (1984) marked his breakthrough as a major American filmmaker. One of the most deadpan comedies ever committed to film, Stranger than Paradise suggests a Buster Keaton film written by Samuel Read More

1984
Burroughs

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg

Synopsis: This biographical documentary on author and eccentric William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch), founder of the Beat Generation literary movement along with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, is roughly divided into two segments. The first part has some witty scenes as the camera follows the author around Read More

1983
Variety

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sandy McLeod, Will Patton, Richard Davidson, Luis Guzman, Nan Goldin

Synopsis: Christine (Sandy McLeod) is a ticket-taker at a Manhattan porn cinema. Her ability to separate reel life from real life is seriously impaired in this slow, often silent, and ultimately enigmatic study of a lonely young woman who first despises the porn and then becomes fascinated with it and the Read More

1983
Permanent Vacation

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Leila Gastil, Maria Duval, Ruth Bolton, Richard Boes

Synopsis: Jim Jarmusch made his directorial debut with this episodic profile of one troubled hipster trying to make sense of his life. Aloysius Parker (Christopher Parker), known to his friends as "Allie," is a young man with a damaged family background (his mother is in a mental institution and his father Read More

1980
Underground USA

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Patti Astor, Eric Mitchell, Rene Ricard, Tom Wright, Jackie Curtis

Synopsis: The "underground" of the title refers not to crime but to the half-hidden world of two-bit hustlers, "artistic" poseurs, aberrant lifestyles and shattered dreams. Small-time Manhattan opportunist Eric Mitchell latches onto Patti Astor, a once-popular movie star fallen into penury. He briefly lifts Read More

1980