Dan Sallitt's home page

As of June 2007, my movies All the Ships at Sea and Honeymoon are available on DVD from CreateSpace.

If you want to be notified when new film writings appear here, send email to sallitt at post dot harvard edu.

Links

All the Ships at Sea, the home page of my most recent film

Diary of a Low-Budget Filmmaker, my account of the making of the feature film Honeymoon

Thanks for the Use of the Hall, my film blog

A MySpace page for my old band Blow This Nightclub

Writing on Film

An article on the 2007 Toronto Film Festival, published in Senses of Cinema,

An article on the 2005 Toronto Film Festival, published in Senses of Cinema,

A collection of capsule reviews of the films of Mikio Naruse, on the occasion of the 2005 Film Forum retrospective.

An email about Maurice Pialat, to a writer for the UCLA Daily Bruin.

An article on Shane Carruth (director of Primer), published in Seed Magazine.

An article on the 2003 Toronto Film Festival, published in Senses of Cinema,

Contributions to a symposium on Daisy Kenyon published in 24fps.  I did parts two, four, and seven.

A review of The Hunted published in 24fps, and a blurb on the same film published in Minneapolis's City Pages

The Damned, from The Science Fiction Reader

Far From Heaven, a review published in 24fps

Parts two, four, and six of an email exchange with David Edelstein and Mim Udovitch about David Thomson's The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, published in Slate

A piece on the 2002 Sight and Sound poll, published in Slate

Esther Kahn, an unedited version of a review published in Tone and Groove

Blurbs and a short overview piece for a Catherine Breillat retrospective at the Museum of the Moving Image

Une Vraie Jeune Fille, a review published in 24fps

Beat, a review published in 24fps

Notes on David O. Russell and Ernst Lubitsch: The Actor vs. the Character, from The Film Comedy Reader

Short blurbs on Chopper, Krampack, and To Die (or Not), written for the Chicago Reader.  

Innocent Blood, published in Chemical Imbalance

(new) Parts one and two of a piece on Alan Rudolph, published by the 1985 Toronto Festival of Festivals

The Christmas films of 1984, an ancient piece from the L.A. Reader

Parts one and two of a 1983 piece on Black Narcissus from the L.A. Reader

A short 1982 blurb on Pilar Miro's The Cuenca Crime from the L.A. Reader

Dragonslayer, a very old piece from the Chicago Reader

A 1981 L.A. Reader piece on Noel Black's A Change of Seasons

Point of View and "Intrarealism" in Hitchcock, published in 1980 in Wide Angle.

Other pages

(new photos)  Saro on the Microphone, a site about a cat

The Selected Works of Mrs. R. V. Macon, Donna Upton's compilation of the writing of a Tennessee newspaper columnist

A few pictures of friends