Dan Sallitt's home page

My movies All the Ships at Sea and Honeymoon are available on Amazon Instant Video and on DVD from Amazon. All the Ships at Sea is also available on DVD in PAL format.

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

Writing on Film

(new) An article on Jean-Daniel Pollet at the Auteurs' Notebook.

(new) Kuba Mikurda's interview with me (in Polish) in Gazeta Filmowa.

(new) A podcast on the Off Camera Film Festival and other topics at the House Next Door.

(new) An article on Borzage's The River at the Auteurs' Notebook.

(new) An article on Ryuichi Hiroki's Love on Sunday films at the Auteurs' Notebook.

(new) An article on the late films of Howard Hawks at the Moving Image Source.

(new) An article on Johan Kling's Darling at the Auteurs' Notebook.

(new) An article on Bruce McDonald's The Tracey Fragments at the Auteurs' Notebook.

(new) Video essays on Chabrol's Le Boucher and La Femme infidèle at Shooting Down Pictures

(new) An article on Georges Franju's Les Youx sans visage at the Auteurs' Notebook.

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 piece on Richard Fleischer's Barabbas, published in the Film Journal.

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

A review of Forty Shades of Blue, published in the Nashville Scene.

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

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

(new) Parts one and two of a 1983 piece on Georges Franju 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

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