Steve Buscemi, Gina Gershon, Kevin Corrigan and Tom DiCillo celebrated the screening of Delirious in Park City on Friday night with a sushi dinner at the Heineken Green Room at the Village at the Lift. Delirious stars Buscemi as a down-on-his-luck paparazzo who takes a genial, homeless kid, Toby, played by Michael Pitt, under his wing. Check out photos above of the stars enjoying the screening party.

More about Delirious

Toby, a desperate, but affable, homeless kid insinuates himself into the life of Les, a hapless paparazzo, and offers to serve as his unpaid assistant. Always game for a deal, Les adopts Toby and shows him the sleazy ropes of party crashing, scoring goody bags, and chasing hot tips. As Les and his cameraman cronies clamor for photo opps, handsome Toby locks eyes with K'harma, the sexy reigning pop princess, and is suddenly swept into a glittery fairy tale like a boy-toy Cinderella. Of course Les views Toby's entrée into K'harma's heretofore-untouchable realm as a chance to snap a shot and make a buck. But Toby is genuinely smitten, and when Les is unable to control his impulses, both men must grapple with the meaning of friendship and the price of betrayal.

It's hard not to see our own voyeuristic anxieties play out in Steve Buscemi's brilliantly conceived Les, a loveable buffoon and tragic figure, while Michael Pitt's well-adjusted Toby reflects our best aspirations for authenticity and truth telling in a world obsessed with packaging the image. At a time when celebrity mania is at its zenith, Tom DiCillo delivers a high-energy, sharp-witted satire that pokes ironic fun at the absurd machine—paparazzi, publicists and stars—that manufactures fame, while also addressing the toll it takes on those caught in its cogs.

Screenwriter : Tom DiCillo
Producer : Bob Salerno
Cinematographer : Frank G. DeMarco
Production Designer : Teresa Mastropiero
Costume Designer : Victoria Farrell
Cast : Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Alison Lohman, Gina Gershon

Tom DiCillo
In 1991, Tom DiCillo wrote and directed his first feature, Johnny Suede, which won the Grand Prize at the Locarno Film Festival. DiCillo then wrote Living in Oblivion, which earned the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival and went on to garner awards for best picture at the Deauville, Stockholm, and Valladolid Film Festivals. DiCillo's Box of Moonlight premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 1996, and The Real Blonde was featured as the opening-night film at Sundance in 1998.