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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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2026
What Can't Be Mentioned
Movie Director
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2024
This Closeness
Movie Thanks
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2021
Red Giant
Movie Therapist
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2021
The Hardest Working Cat in Showbiz
Movie Self (voice)
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2019
Caterina
Movie Editor
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2019
Fourteen
Movie Editor
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2018
Notes on an Appearance
Movie
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2017
Be My Baby
Movie Creative Consultant
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2016
Hermia & Helena
Movie Horace
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2013
Ghost Phone
Movie Creative Consultant
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2013
On Red River
Movie
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2013
Dan Sallitt
Movie Self
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2013
The Unspeakable Act
Movie Director
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2004
All the Ships at Sea
Movie Director
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1998
Honeymoon
Movie Mark
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1986
Polly Perverse Strikes Again!
Movie Director