Dante's Inferno (2007 film)

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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
Editing by	Sean Meredith
Running time	78 minutes
Language	English
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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, and the Boston Underground Film Festival.

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

1 Voice cast
2 Reception
3 References
4 External links

[edit] 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, 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 Ceausescu
Tami Sagher - George Elliot, Greed Seductress, Barbara Bates, Penelope
Dana Snyder - Strom Thurmond, Ulysses
Janet Varney - Teacher, Cleopatra, City of Dis Intercom, Ulysses' Usher
Matt Walsh - Mussolini, Fox Reporter, Airport Security Pursuer
Paul Zaloom - Homer, God, Officer Chiron, Southern Lobbyist, Airport Security, Caiaphas, Ulysses' Crew, Macmud, Insider Trader #1, Nicolae Ceausescu

[edit] 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]

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 International Film Festival in 2007.