Dan Sallitt

Born: 1955-07-27

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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Hermia & Helena

as Horace
Released: 2016-09-09

Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an...

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Honeymoon

as Mark
Released: 1998-09-26

Mimi and Michael are close friends after a brief and unsuccessful dating interlude years before....

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Notes on an Appearance

as uncredited
Released: 2018-02-21

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

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The Hardest Working Cat in Showbiz

as Self (voice)
Released: 2021-05-16

Explore the legend of Hollywood’s most celebrated cat, Orangey, in this adaptation of Dan...

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