Dante's Inferno (2007 film)

Dante's Inferno

Directed by	Sean Meredith
Produced by	Sean Meredith Paul Zaloom Sandow Birk
Written by	Dante Alighieri (novel) Sandow Birk Sean Meredith Paul Zaloom
Starring	Voices of Dermot Mulroney James Cromwell Paul Zaloom
Music by	Mark McAdam
Cinematography	Michael Negrin
Edited by	Sean Meredith
Running time	78 minutes
Language	English

Dante's Inferno is a 2007 comedy film performed with hand-drawn paper puppets on a toy theater stage. The film was adapted from the book "Dante's Inferno" by Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders (Chronicle Books, 2004), which is a modern update of the canticle Inferno from Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy. The film chronicles Dante's (voiced by Dermot Mulroney) journeys through the underworld, guided by Virgil (voiced by James Cromwell). The head puppeteer was Paul Zaloom and the puppets were designed by Elyse Pignolet and drawn by Sandow Birk. The film premiered January 20, 2007 at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival.^[1] The film has also been shown at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, Silver Lake Film Festival, the Boston Underground Film Festival, and on the Ovation TV cable network.

The voice cast includes actors associated with the Upright Citizens Brigade, Crossballs, 30 Rock, Arrested Development, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

Voice cast

Tony Abatemacro - Lying Defendant, Farinata
Scott Adsit - Judge Minos, Paolo, Hirohito, Copter Pilot, Spiro Agnew
Matt Besser - Metallica Defendant, L. Ron Hubbard, Curtis LeMay, Airport Security
Bill Chott - Ciaccio 'El Gordo', Calvacanti, Joseph Stalin, Ulysses' Crew
Mike Coleman - Charon, Phlegyas, Senator, Dick Cheney
James Cromwell - Virgil
Andrew Daly - Lucan, "Right On" Glutton, Jim Jones, Airport Screener, Ulysses' Naysayer
John Fleck - Brunetto Latini
Sean Forrester - Horace, Mr. 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.
Dermot Mulroney - 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

"...feels like the unholy offspring of Mike Judge and R. Crumb." – Robert Abele, LA Times, May 2007

Director Sean Meredith won the "Best Director" award at the Silver Lake Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2007, and the film won the "Audience Favorite" award at the San Francisco IndieFest in 2007. Boston Underground Film Festival gave it the Spirit of Underground award in 2007. The jury at the 2007 Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival gave the award for Best Narrative Feature.

References

↑ Dante's Inferno - Slamdance Film Festival 2007. Slamdance.com. Retrieved 2007-08-26
↑ Curt Holman (2007-04-18). "Skimming the cream of the Atlanta Film Festival crop". CreativeLoafing.com. Retrieved 2007-08-26.
↑ Kevin Stewart (2007-04-15). "Atlanta Film Festival '07: Capsule Previews". CinemaATL.com. Retrieved 2007-08-26.

External links

Official site
Dante's Inferno at the Internet Movie Database

Dante

Works in Latin	De vulgari eloquentia De Monarchia Eclogues

Works in Italian	La Vita Nuova Le Rime Convivio

Divine Comedy	Inferno Purgatorio Paradiso Cultural references

Books, articles, concepts	Contrapasso Dante Encyclopedia Enciclopedia Dantesca

People in Dante's life	Alighiero di Bellincione (father) Jacopo Alighieri (son) Guido Cavalcanti Brunetto Latini Beatrice Portinari

Dante in popular culture	Dante crater Dante Alighieri Academy Scuola Italiana Dante Alighieri Dante Park Italian battleship Dante Alighieri

Book:Dante Alighieri Category:The Divine Comedy

Dante's Divine Comedy

Characters

Inferno	Acheron Alichino Barbariccia Ciampolo Cocytus Dis Malacoda Malebranche Malebolge Minos Phlegethon Satan Scarmiglione Styx

Purgatorio	Eunoe Forese Donati Statius

Paradiso	Piccarda

Verses

Adaptations

Classical music	Après une Lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata (Liszt, 1849) Dante Symphony (Liszt, 1857) Francesca da Rimini (Tchaikovsky, 1876) Francesca da Rimini (Rachmaninoff, 1904) Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai, 1914) Gianni Schicchi (Puccini, 1918) The Divine Comedy (Smith, 1996)

Modern music	Inferno (1973 album) "Dante's Inferno" (1995 song) Dante XXI (2006 album) Venus Doom (2007 album) A Place Where the Sun Is Silent (2011 album)

Film	L'Inferno (1911) Dante's Inferno (1924) Dante's Inferno (1935) The Dante Quartet (1987) A TV Dante (1989) Dante's Inferno (2007) Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010) Dante's Inferno Animated (2010)

Literature	The Story of Rimini (1816) La Comédie humaine (1830–1850) Earth Inferno (1905) The Cantos (1917–1962) As I Was Going Down Sackville Street (1937) Demon Lord Dante (1971) Inferno (1976) The Dante Club (2003) Jimbo's Inferno (2006) Inferno (2013)

Video games	Tamashii no Mon (1994) Devil May Cry series (2001) Bayonetta (2009) Dante's Inferno (2010) The Lost (cancelled)

Paintings	The Barque of Dante (Delacroix, 1822) The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides (Blake, 1827) Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appraised by Dante and Virgil (Scheffer, 1835) Pia de' Tolomei (Rossetti, 1868) Paolo and Francesca da Rimini (Rossetti, 1885) La barca de Aqueronte (Hidalgo, 1887) La Laguna Estigia (Hidalgo, 1887)

Sculptures	The Kiss (Rodin, 1882) The Thinker (Rodin, 1904) The Gates of Hell (Rodin, 1917)

Architecture	Danteum (Terragni, 1938)

Book:Dante Alighieri
Category:The Divine Comedy
Portal:Literature

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