
Dan Sallitt
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- July 27, 1955
- Birthplace
- Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Filmography

What Can't Be Mentioned 2026
Director, Writer, Editor

This Closeness 2024
Thanks

Red Giant 2021
as Therapist

The Hardest Working Cat in Showbiz 2021
as Self (voice), Screenplay

Caterina 2019
Editor, Writer, Director

Fourteen 2019
Editor, Director, Writer

Notes on an Appearance 2018
Actor

Be My Baby 2017
Creative Consultant

Hermia & Helena 2016
as Horace

Ghost Phone 2013
Creative Consultant
- On Red River
On Red River 2013
Actor
- Dan Sallitt
Dan Sallitt 2013
as Self

The Unspeakable Act 2013
Director, Editor, Writer

All the Ships at Sea 2004
Director, Editor, Writer

Honeymoon 1998
as Mark, Director, Writer

Polly Perverse Strikes Again! 1986
Director, Writer
Credits from TMDB.