Phil Hall (born 1964) is an American writer and film critic.

Writing

Hall is a writer/editor for the online Cinema Crazed and was a contributing editor for the online magazine ''

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''Patrick Ferrucci
"Head Underground: Taking a look at the real independents,"
New Haven Register, September 26, 2008 and the author of several film-related books, including ''The Encyclopedia of Underground Movies: Films from the Fringes of Cinema'' (2004), ''Independent Film Distribution'' (2006), '' The History of Independent Cinema'' (2009), ''The Greatest Bad Movies of All Time'' (2013), ''In Search of Lost Films'' (2016), ''The Weirdest Movie Ever Made: The Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Film'' (2018), ''Jesus Christ Movie Star'' (2021) and ''100 Years of Wall Street Crooks'' (2022). He has also written for ''

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'' and '' American Movie Classics'' Magazine. Hall is a member of the

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. Hall is a senior enterprise editor for Westfair Communications’ ''Westchester and Fairfield County Business Journal'', and was an editor and research analyst for the financial site Profit Confidential. He has written for Progress in Lending and he was formerly an editor for two mortgage banking magazines, ''Secondary Marketing Executive'' and ''Servicing Management'', and the daily MortgageOrb news site. Hall also authored ''Moby Dick: The Radio Play'', an audio theater adaptation of

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Moby-Dick ''Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'' is an 1851 Epic (genre), epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is centered on the sailor Ishmael (Moby-Dick), Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Captain Ahab, Ahab, captain of the whaler ...

'' which was performed on the radio series ''Nutmeg Junction'' and was published as an e-book.Amanda Cuda
"Fairfield resident releases ‘Moby Dick’ radio play as an e-book,"
Connecticut Post, July 20, 2020

Other work

Hall is the director of the New England Underground Film Festival, an annual event held in

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. He was the director of the New Haven Underground Film Festival in 2008, and previously programmed the Light+Screen Film Festival in New York. Hall also served as a member of the Governing Committee of the

. He is also the host of the

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''The Online Movie Show with Phil Hall''. From 1994 to 2004, Hall was the president of Open City Communications, a

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agency.

Film work

A 20-minute documentary short by Leszek Drozd titled ''A Writer Named Phil Hall'' featured Hall talking about his career in the media, the books he authored, and his advice for young writers who want to get published. Hall has also appeared as an actor in a number of independently produced films, including the '' Bikini Bloodbath'' series of horror-comedies, ''Rudyard Kipling's Mark of the Beast'' and the Michael Legge comedy ''Monochromia''.

References

External links

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Entrepreneur Magazine article on Phil Hall at Open City Communications

Online link to the film "A Writer Named Phil Hall"

Phil Hall at Rotten Tomatoes
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