Nathan Silver

Nathan Silver

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PANORAMA: THIRST STREET BY NATHAN SILVER

By José Sarmiento-Hinojosa

If maybe more contrived and less risky than his previous affairs, Thirst Street is Silver appropriate salute to amour-fou. Burdge is never out of control, or portrayed like a neurotic women; her attitude of naivete and obliviousness is exemplary awkward but also shows an unrestricted frailty. Silver never uses one-dimensional characters and here is no exception: even Bonnard, at his most deceptive, is just an aimless man, discouraged and adrift. The construction of this narrative, along the use of a particular atmospheric use of photography and camera, elevates this tragic comedy to a realm of the almost oneiric, something like a fever dream, or a wild fantasy.

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Críticas

PANORAMA: ACTOR MARTINEZ DE NATHAN SILVER Y MIKE OTT

Por Aldo Padilla

Los directores Mike Ott y Nathan Silver construyen una docuficción en base a la vida de Arthur Martinez, extraño personaje que busca con un gran ímpetu una carrera como actor, aunque con el eterno rótulo de reparador de computadoras adherido en sus múltiples camisetas.

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BAFICI

BAFICI 2015: UNCERTAIN TERMS DE NATHAN SILVER

Por Mónica Delgado

Nathan Silver se perfila desde un tiempo a esta parte como un cineasta interesado en algunas convenciones de lo femenino, sobre todo desde los modos de la histeria, la neurosis, el amor fou o el simple enamoramiento como situación de goce, sublimación y posesión que desconcierta, todo bajo un sentido del humor agridulce.

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Q&A

Q & A: NATHAN SILVER

By Mónica Delgado & José Sarmiento Hinojosa

Let’s get things straight: Nathan Silver makes cinema in a “family key”, literally. He acts with his parents, his friends become lead characters for his films and his ex-girlfriend isn’t afraid to be directed by him. Overall, he impregnates this familiar game of being and becoming with the humor and complicity of his films. Desistfilm talked with this exceptional New York filmmaker who promises to keep surprising us with an unexplored face of irony.

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Main Articles

PANORAMA: SOFT IN THE HEAD BY NATHAN SILVER

By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

Thanks to The Idiot reads the final closing credits of Nathan Silver last feature Soft in the Head and one can’t help but recalling the Dostoveskian tale of absurdity, chaos and turmoil of a man with good intentions and the consequences his behavior sparks around him and the people who surround him.

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BAFICI

BAFICI 2013: EXIT ELENA DE NATHAN SILVER

Por Mónica Delgado

La novia del director Nathan Silver interpreta a Elena, una enfermera de ascendencia rusa que cuida a una abuela en un suburbio de Massachussets. La anciana es la vecina de Silver en la vida real, y su madre, Cindy Silver, encarna en la ficción a su madre, porque Silver también actúa de hijo en esta cinta de bajo presupuesto y de gran espíritu de cine realmente independiente estadounidense.

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