Delirious / The Interview

DELIRIOUS, 2006, Peace Arch Releasing, 102 min. Dir.

Tom DiCillo. Les Galantine (Steve Buscemi), a paparazzi photographer who yearns to be a "real" photographer, slinks through a daily routine of watching as the rich, famous and beautiful walk past the velvet ropes and into the exclusive VIP areas of New York's best clubs. This routine is upset when a young homeless man named Toby (Michael Pitt), stumbles upon Les and his fellow paparazzi staking out a trendy Manhattan hot spot in the hope of getting a shot of K’harma, a pop diva (Alison Lohman).

THE INTERVIEW, 2007, Sony Picture Classics, 84 min. Steve Buscemi directs and stars in this remake of a 2003 feature by the assassinated Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh. Buscemi plays a veteran political reporter who feels humiliated when an editor assigns him to write a profile of a soap opera star (Sienna Miller), but over the course of an evening together the two opposites find as much mutual attraction as repulsion.