Marty and Scott's centuries-spanning survey of filmic navel-gazing reaches an especially gaze-worthy era: the 80s and 90s. How did the Dream Factory imagine itself? And how do you even know it's a dream, unless you put a dwarf in it? Don't look into the camera! Just join us.

The cinematic octopi we wrestle this week:

• Cinema Paradiso (1988, Dir. Guiseppe Tornatore) at 2:39
• The Player (1992, Dir. Robert Altman) at 18:24
• Ed Wood (1994, Dir. Tim Burton) at 37:10
• Living in Oblivion (1995, Dir. Tom DiCillo) at 49:18

Plus a hubristic stab at continuity (58:50) and a humbling round of lightninging (1:17:52).

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