Slamdance: Day something

From roving Globe correspondent Meredith Goldstein comes this Slamdance report:

One of the films generating buzz over at Slamdance has been "Dante's Inferno," a re-telling of the hellish tale featuring paper puppets and the voices of Dermot Mulroney and James Cromwell. Mulroney plays Dante. Cromwell is Virgil. The flick is visually stunning thanks to illustrator Sandow Birk and master puppeteer Paul Zaloom. In this hell, Dante, a dude with a foul mouth who drinks too much, is shown the error of his ways and meets a few politicians while he's visiting all of the circles of the underworld (including Dick Cheney and at least one Kennedy).

Director Sean Meredith was giddy the Globe showed up for his screening. He's an Emerson College grad and says his strange adaptation of the classic tale will be screened locally at the Brattle Theatre this spring.