obscurity

Sporadically playing only at festivals, colleges and museums, the movie failed to garner a proper theatrical release until 2007, its complicated music clearances seemingly dooming it to obscurity.

Levitsky attended Stanford and then UC Berkeley, and likely would have spent his career in relative obscurity, writing academic tomes about political parties in Argentina.

"This could have been a chance for a newcomer to have their own Beatles moment - rising from obscurity in real-time".

He wants now, he says, to fade into obscurity, his power and influence gone.

Notwithstanding praise for Bates’ “powerhouse of a performance,” the film seemed on a glide path to obscurity.