Dante's Inferno (2007 film)
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| Directed by | Sean Meredith |
| Written by | Dante Alighieri (novel) Sandow Birk Sean Meredith Paul Zaloom |
| Produced by | Sean Meredith Paul Zaloom Sandow Birk |
| Starring | Dermot Mulroney James Cromwell Paul Zaloom Andy Daly Martha Plimpton Tony Hale Scott Adsit Janet Varney |
| Cinematography | Michael Negrin |
| Edited by | Sean Meredith |
| Music by | Mark McAdam |
| Distributed by | Dante Film LLC |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Dante's Inferno is a 2007
Plot
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Voice cast
- Tony Abatemacro - Lying Defendant, Farinata
- Scott Adsit - Judge Minos, Paolo, Hirohito, Spiro Agnew
- Matt Besser - Metallica Defendant, L. Ron Hubbard, Curtis LeMay,
- Bill Chott - Ciaccio 'El Gordo', Calvacanti, Joseph Stalin, Ulysses' Crew
- Mike Coleman - Charon, Phlegyas, Senator, Dick Cheney
- James Cromwell - Virgil
- , Airport Screener, Ulysses' Naysayer
- John Fleck - Brunetto Latini
- Sean Forrester - Horace, Filippo Argenti, White Pimp, Beating Victim, Airport Security, Insider Trader #2
- Tony Hale - Ovid, Real Estate Broker, Pope Nicholas III
- Tom Hallick - George Sanders, Deep Voiced Lobbyist
- Brandon Johnson - Irate Driver, Mounted Policeman, Pimp #1, Pimp #3, Airport Security
- Laura Krafft - George Sand, Airport P.A., Subway P.A.
- Dante
- Martha Plimpton - Celia, Lobbyist Singer, Lizzie Borden
- Kit Pongetti - W.M.D. Defendant, Francesca, Marilyn Monroe, Elena Ceaușescu
- Tami Sagher - George Eliot, Greed Seductress, Barbara Bates, Penelope
- Dana Snyder - Strom Thurmond, Ulysses
- Janet Varney - Teacher, Cleopatra, City of Dis Intercom, Ulysses' Usher
- Matt Walsh - Benito Mussolini, Fox Reporter, Airport Security Pursuer
- Paul Zaloom - Homer, God, Officer Chiron, Southern Lobbyist, Airport Security, Caiaphas, Ulysses' Crew, Macmud, Insider Trader #1, Nicolae Ceaușescu
- Mark Ritts - Gianciotto or Giovanni Malatesta
Reception
Film critic Curt Holman gave the film 3 stars and said it had a "far-ranging and bawdy satirical spirit."[2] Film critic Kevin Stewart said "such political satire is very fitting for the manner and the times."[3]
"There’s enough of the divinely comic in this 'Inferno' to justify a pair of sequels" -Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix, March 2007[citation needed]
"...feels like the unholy offspring of Mike Judge and R. Crumb." – Robert Abele, LA Times, May 2007[citation needed]
Director Sean Meredith won the "Best Director" award at the Silver Lake Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2007,[citation needed] and the film won the "Audience Favorite" award at the San Francisco IndieFest in 2007.[citation needed] Boston Underground Film Festival gave it the Spirit of Underground award in 2007.[citation needed] The jury at the 2007 Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival gave the award for Best Narrative Feature.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Dante's Inferno - Slamdance Film Festival 2007 Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine. Slamdance.com. Retrieved 2007-08-26
- ^ Curt Holman (2007-04-18). "Skimming the cream of the Atlanta Film Festival crop". CreativeLoafing.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-08-26.
- ^ Kevin Stewart (2007-04-15). "Atlanta Film Festival '07: Capsule Previews". CinemaATL.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-08-26.
External links
- Official site
- Dante's Inferno at IMDb
