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<!DOCTYPE doctype PUBLIC "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <meta name="Author" content="Dan Sallitt"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.79 [en] (WinNT; U) [Netscape]"> <meta name="Description" content="A few unrelated pages."> <meta name="KeyWords" content="David O. Russell,Ernst Lubitsch,Esther Kahn,Mrs. R. V. Macon,Donna Upton,Diary of a Low-Budget Filmmaker"> <title>Dan Sallitt's home page</title> </head> <body> <h1 align="center">Dan Sallitt's home page</h1> <div style="text-align: center;">Last update 22 Aug 2015<br> <br> </div> <h3 style="text-align: center;"><font color="#330000">Film Projects<br> </font></h3> <h4 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Unspeakable-Act/308894072491655">The Unspeakable Act</a> (2012) - Facebook page<br> </h4> <h4><a href="./atsas">All the Ships at Sea</a> (2004) - web site. NTSC DVD available at <a href="https://www.createspace.com/227368">CreateSpace</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/All-Ships-Sea-Strawn-Bovee/dp/B000REQTJ0">Amazon</a>; PAL DVD available at <a href="https://www.createspace.com/253642">CreateSpace</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/All-Ships-at-Sea-PAL/dp/B001GCVJZQ">Amazon</a>; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/All-the-Ships-at-Sea/dp/B005IPJTEK">streaming and download</a> available at Amazon</h4> <h4><a href="./intro.html">Honeymoon</a> (1998) - my online diary, titled Diary of a Low-Budget Filmmaker. NTSC DVD available at <a href="https://www.createspace.com/230342">CreateSpace</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Honeymoon-Edith-Meeks/dp/B000REQTJK/">Amazon</a>; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Honeymoon/dp/B005IW505A">streaming and download</a> available at Amazon</h4> <br> <h3 align="center">Film Lists<br> </h3> <b><a href="https://sallittfavorites.wordpress.com">My favorite films by international release date</a> - updated several times a year<br> <br> </b> <h3 align="center">Writing on Film</h3> <b><a href="http://sallitt.blogspot.com">Thanks for the Use of the Hall</a>, my film blog</b> <h4><font color="#cc0000"></font><b><a href="./blog">An archive of Thanks for the Use of the Hall posts</a> before Dec 2008</b></h4> <h4>And a fairly random assortment of other online writings... I've fixed as many dead links as I could for now.<br> </h4> <b>An <a href="http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/jean-daniel-pollet">article on Jean-Daniel Pollet</a> at MUBI</b>.<b><br> </b><b><font color="#cc0000"><br> </font></b><b>Kuba Mikurda's interview with me (in Polish) in <a href="http://wyborcza.pl/0,91946.html">Gazeta Filmowa</a>: pages <a href="./GazetaFilmowa11Oct08Page1.jpg">one</a>, <a href="./GazetaFilmowa11Oct08Page2.jpg">two</a>, and <a href="./GazetaFilmowa11Oct08Page3.jpg">three</a>.<br> <br> </b><b>A <a href="http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2008/10/hndgrassroots-season-2-episode-5-23-night-and-fog-in-krakow-or-no-sheeps-vagina-or-bring-on-the-empty-sheep/">podcast on the Off Camera Film Festival and other topics</a> at the House Next Door.<br> <br> </b><b>An <a href="http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/now-on-dvd-the-river-borzage-usa-1929">article on Borzage's The River</a> </b><b>at MUBI</b>.<b><br> <br> </b><b>An <a href="http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/nyaff-2008-love-on-sunday-love-on-sunday-2-last-words-hiroki-ryuichi-japan">article on Ryuichi Hiroki's Love on Sunday films</a> </b><b>at MUBI</b>.<b><br> <br> </b><b><font color="#cc0000"></font></b><b>An <a href="http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/golden-years-20080604">article on the late films of Howard Hawks</a> at the <a href="http://www.movingimagesource.us/">Moving Image Source</a>.<br> <br> </b><b>An <a href="http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/at-the-cinematheque-darling-kling-sweden">article on Johan Kling's Darling</a> </b><b>at MUBI</b>.<b><br> <font color="#cc0000"><br> </font>An <a href="http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/now-in-theaters-the-tracey-fragments-mcdonald-canada">article on Bruce McDonald's The Tracey Fragments</a> </b><b>at MUBI</b>.<b><br> </b><b><font color="#cc0000"><br> </font><a href="http://alsolikelife.com/shooting/?p=283">Video essays on Chabrol's Le Boucher and La Femme infid鑜e</a> at <a href="http://alsolikelife.com/shooting">Shooting Down Pictures</a></b><font color="#cc0000"><br> <br> </font><b>An <a href="http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/at-the-cinematheque-eyes-without-a-face-franju-france-1960">article on Georges Franju's Les Youx sans visage</a> </b><b>at MUBI</b>.<b><br> </b> <h4> </h4> <h4> </h4> <h4> </h4> <h4> </h4> <h4> </h4> <h4>An <a href="http://sensesofcinema.com/2007/festival-reports/toronto-iff-2007/">article on the 2007 Toronto Film Festival</a>, published in <a href="http://www.sensesofcinema.com"><i>Senses of Cinema</i></a>,<br> </h4> <h4>An <a href="http://sensesofcinema.com/2006/festival-reports/tiff2005/">article on the 2005 Toronto Film Festival</a>, published in <a href="http://www.sensesofcinema.com"><i>Senses of Cinema</i></a>,<br> </h4> <b>A <a href="http://www.panix.com/%7Esallitt/barabbas.html">piece on Richard Fleischer's Barabbas</a>, published in <a href="http://thefilmjournal.com">the Film Journal</a>.</b><br> <h4> </h4> <h4> </h4> <h4> </h4> <h4>A collection of capsule reviews of <a href="naruse.html">the films of Mikio Naruse</a>, on the occasion of the 2005 Film Forum retrospective.</h4> <h4> </h4> <b>A <a href="http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/brilliant-blue/Content?oid=1192422">review of Forty Shades of Blue</a>, published in the <a href="http://www.nashvillescene.com/"><i>Nashville Scene</i></a>.</b> <h4> </h4> <h4>An <a href="./DailyBruinPialatEmail.html">email about Maurice Pialat</a>, to a writer for the <a href="http://www.dailybruin.com"><i>UCLA Daily Bruin</i></a>.<br> </h4> <h4> </h4> <h4>An <a href="./carruth.html">article on Shane Carruth</a> (director of Primer), published in <a href="http://www.seedmediagroup.com"><i>Seed Magazine</i></a>.<br> </h4> <h4>An <a href="http://sensesofcinema.com/2003/festival-reports/2003_toronto/">article on the 2003 Toronto Film Festival</a>, published in <a href="http://www.sensesofcinema.com"><i>Senses of Cinema</i></a>,<br> </h4> <h4>A <a href="daisy.html">symposium on <b>Daisy Kenyon</b></a> published in <i>24fps</i>. I did parts <a href="daisy2.html">two</a>, <a href="daisy4.html">four</a>, and <a href="daisy7.html">seven</a>.<br> </h4> <h4>A <a href="hunted.html">review of The Hunted</a> published in <i>24fps</i>, and a <a href="http://citypages.com/filmreviews/detail.asp?MID=4508">blurb on the same film</a> published in Minneapolis's <i><a href="http://citypages.com">City Pages</a></i></h4> <h4><a href="./damned.html">The Damned</a>, from <i>The Science Fiction Reader</i><br> </h4> <h4><a href="farfromheaven.html">Far From Heaven</a>, a review published in <i>24fps</i><br> </h4> <h4>Parts <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2072008/entry/2072104">two</a>, <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2072008/entry/2072144">four</a>, and <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2072008/entry/2072244">six</a> of an email exchange with David Edelstein and Mim Udovitch about David Thomson's <i>The New Biographical Dictionary of Film</i>, published in <i><a href="http://www.slate.com/">Slate</a></i><br> </h4> <h4><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2002/08/sight_unchanged.html">A piece on the 2002 Sight and Sound poll</a>, published in <i><a href="http://www.slate.com/">Slate</a></i><br> </h4> <h4 align="left"> <a href="./esthkahn.html">Esther Kahn</a>, an unedited version of a review published in <a href="http://www.toneandgroove.com/"><i>Tone and Groove</i></a></h4> <h4>Blurbs and a short overview piece for <a href="./breillat.html">a Catherine Breillat retrospective</a> at the <i><a href="http://movingimage.us">Museum of the Moving Image</a></i></h4> <h4><a href="./unevraie.html">Une Vraie Jeune Fille</a>, a review published in <i>24fps</i></h4> <h4 align="left"><a href="./beat.html">Beat</a>, a review published in <i>24fps</i></h4> <h4 align="left"><a href="./russell.html">Notes on David O. Russell</a> and <a href="./lubitsch.html">Ernst Lubitsch: The Actor vs. the Character</a>, from <i>The Film Comedy Reader</i></h4> <h4>Short blurbs on <a href="./chreader.html">Chopper, Krampack, and To Die (or Not)</a>, written for the <a href="http://www.chireader.com"><i>Chicago Reader</i></a>. </h4> <h4><a href="./landis.html">Innocent Blood</a>, published in <i>Chemical Imbalance</i></h4> <h4><b>Parts <a href="./Rudolph1.jpg">one</a> and <a href="./Rudolph2.jpg">two</a> of a piece on Alan Rudolph, published by the 1985 Toronto Festival of Festivals</b></h4> P<span style="font-weight: bold;">arts </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="./IntoTheNight001.jpg">one</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> and </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="./IntoTheNight002.jpg">two</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> of a 1985 piece on Landis's </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Into the Night</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> from the </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">L.A. Reader</span><br> <h4><a href="./la121484.html">The Christmas films of 1984</a>, an ancient piece from the <i>L.A. Reader</i></h4> <h4> </h4> <h4>Parts <a href="./LaTruite1.jpg">one</a> and <a href="./LaTruite2.jpg">two</a> of a 1983 piece on Losey's <span style="font-style: italic;">La Truite</span> from the <span style="font-style: italic;">L.A. Reader</span><br> </h4> <h4>Parts <a href="./Breathless1.jpg">one</a> and <a href="./Breathless2.jpg">two</a> of a 1983 piece on McBride's <span style="font-style: italic;">Breathless</span> from the <span style="font-style: italic;">L.A. Reader</span><br> </h4> <h4><b>Parts <a href="http://www.panix.com/%7Esallitt/Franju1.jpg">one</a> and <a href="http://www.panix.com/%7Esallitt/Franju2.jpg">two</a> of a 1983 piece on Georges Franju from the <i>L.A. Reader</i></b></h4> <h4><b>Parts <a href="./BlackNarcissus1.jpg">one</a> and <a href="./BlackNarcissus2.jpg">two</a> of a 1983 piece on Black Narcissus from the <i>L.A. Reader</i></b></h4> <h4> </h4> <h4 align="left"> </h4> <h4> </h4> <h4> </h4> <h4><a href="./CukorObituary.html">George Cukor</a>, a 1983 obituary piece from the<i> L.A Reader</i></h4> <h4>A short 1982 blurb on Pilar Miro's <a href="./CuencaCrime.jpg">The Cuenca Crime</a><b> from the <i>L.A. Reader</i></b><br> </h4> <h4><a href="./dragonslayer.html">Dragonslayer</a>, a 1981 piece from the<i> <a href="http://www.chireader.com">Chicago Reader</a></i></h4> <h4><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">(new)</span> <a href="./tess.html">Tess</a>, a 1981 piece from the<i> <a href="http://www.chireader.com">Chicago Reader</a></i></h4> <h4> </h4> <h4><b>A 1981 <i>L.A. Reader</i> piece on Noel Black's <a href="http://www.panix.com/%7Esallitt/blog/2007/06/more-on-noel-black.html">A Change of Seasons</a></b></h4> <h4><a href="./intrarealism.html">Point of View and "Intrarealism" in Hitchcock</a>, published in 1980 in Wide Angle.</h4> <br> <br> <h4> </h4> <h3 align="center">Other pages</h3> <b>A MySpace page for my old band <a href="http://myspace.com/blowthisnightclub">Blow This Nightclub</a></b> <h4><a href="./saro">Saro on the Microphone</a>, a site about a cat</h4> <h4 align="left"><a href="./macon.html">The Selected Works of Mrs. R. V. Macon</a>, Donna Upton's compilation of the writing of a now-departed Tennessee newspaper columnist</h4> <h4 align="left">A few <a href="./pic.html">pictures</a> of friends from years gone by, before photos went to Facebook or Instagram or Flickr or Tumblr<br> </h4> <div align="right"> <div align="center"> </div> <h4> </h4> <h4> </h4> <h4> </h4> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> </div> <br> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-6665006-2"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}</script> </body></html>