Person
Dan Sallitt
Directing · Born 1955-07-27 · Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
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.
Known for
Fourteen
Editor
The Hardest Working Cat in Showbiz
Self (voice)
The Unspeakable Act
Screenplay
Honeymoon
Mark
Red Giant
Therapist
All the Ships at Sea
Director
Ghost Phone
Creative Consultant
Be My Baby
Creative Consultant
This Closeness
Thanks
Hermia & Helena
Horace
Filmography
- 2024This ClosenessThanks
- 2021Red GiantTherapist
- 2021The Hardest Working Cat in ShowbizSelf (voice)
- 2019CaterinaDirector
- 2019FourteenEditor
- 2018Notes on an Appearance
- 2017Be My BabyCreative Consultant
- 2016Hermia & HelenaHorace
- 2013Ghost PhoneCreative Consultant
- 2013On Red River
- 2013Dan SallittSelf
- 2012The Unspeakable ActScreenplay
- 2004All the Ships at SeaDirector
- 1998HoneymoonMark
- 1986Polly Perverse Strikes Again!Writer
- —What Can't Be MentionedDirector
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