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Dan Sallitt

Dan Sallitt

Dan Sallitt is an American critic, screenwriter and film director known for his microbudget filmmaking and "cinephile" film criticism.

Born on 27 July 1955 in Pennsylvania, Sallitt moved to Los Angeles in 1976 where he became first-string film critic of the Los Angeles Reader from 1983 to 1985. He has written film criticism for many outlets, including Slate, the Chicago Reader, MUBI.com, Masters of Cinema, and the Toronto Film Festival. He maintains the film blog Thanks for the Use of the Hall.

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Movies Made By Dan Sallitt (10)

This Closeness (2024)

In Philadelphia for the weekend, Tessa and Ben, a couple on the rocks, rent a room in the apartment of Adam, a reclusive stranger who quickly becomes an unwilling voyeur to the most private parts of the couple's life. Tensions rise as the three enter an in ...

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The Hardest Working Cat in Showbiz (2021)

Explore the legend of Hollywood's most celebrated cat, Orangey, in this adaptation of Dan Sallitt's essay of the same name. The prolific feline actor's 16-year filmography includes roles in Rhubarb (1951), The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), The Diary of ...

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Caterina (2019)

Caterina was born in South America but lives in New York. Her willingness to make close emotional connections to others is as much of a burden as it is a gift. ...

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Fourteen (2019)

Twentysomething Brooklynites Mara and Jo have been close friends since middle school. Gradually, it becomes apparent that the increasingly unstable Jo has troubles that may be the result of substance abuse, or an even deeper problem. Over the course of a d ...

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Be My Baby (2017)

A well-observed, plausibly troubled love story ...

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Ghost Phone (2013)

William Pierce (Nelson Franklin) is a practical, rational man who suddenly finds himself face to face with the paranormal when he starts receiving phone calls from the dead on the cell phone his recently-deceased fiancée (Melissa Ordway) left behind. ...

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The Unspeakable Act (2012)

17-year-old Jackie is in distress as her older brother Matthew gets his first girlfriend and prepares for college. Though Matthew does not share her incestuous desire, Jackie fights the intrusion of reality on her idyllic childhood world. ...

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All the Ships at Sea (2004)

Evelyn Bell, a Catholic professor of theology, and her younger sister Virginia are reunited after many years when Virginia returns home in a depression after being ejected from a religious cult. At a lakeside retreat in Northeastern Pennsylvania, the siste ...

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Honeymoon (1998)

Mimi and Michael are close friends after a brief and unsuccessful dating interlude years before. Michael has remained in love with Mimi over the years, but Mimi, who has just broken up with her long-time boyfriend, seems willing to try romance with Michael ...

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Polly Perverse Strikes Again! (1986)

Out of Nick Huxley's past comes Theresa, a social disease who sleeps with anything that moves and who has decided that she wants Nick back. Nick, a successful photographer with a stable relationship, is determined to banish Theresa and youthful folly from ...

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Movies Starring Dan Sallitt (6)

The Hardest Working Cat in Showbiz (2021)

Explore the legend of Hollywood's most celebrated cat, Orangey, in this adaptation of Dan Sallitt's essay of the same name. The prolific feline actor's 16-year filmography includes roles in Rhubarb (1951), The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), The Diary of ...

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Notes on an Appearance (2018)

A young man disappears amid talk of violence and demagoguery, leaving behind an obscure cache of letters, postcards, and notebooks. ...

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Hermia & Helena (2016)

Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to develop a Spanish translation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Upon her arrival, she begins to receive a series of mysterious ...

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On Red River (2013)

Dan Sallitt in conversation with Jaime N. ...

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Dan Sallitt (2013)

Interview with filmmaker and critic Dan Sallitt. Recorded July 2013. ...

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Honeymoon (1998)

Mimi and Michael are close friends after a brief and unsuccessful dating interlude years before. Michael has remained in love with Mimi over the years, but Mimi, who has just broken up with her long-time boyfriend, seems willing to try romance with Michael ...

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