Jason Schwartzman has made a career for himself in both major films and indie darlings. Throughout his filmography, you can see how he goes back and forth, effortlessly, to star in massive films like “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” and “Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” and then in smaller, more intimate indie films like the forthcoming “Between the Temples.”

As seen in the trailer, “Between the Temples” tells the story of a cantor who is going through his own mental health struggles.

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The romantic version of a Mexican standoff, except everyone has their heart rather than a gun pointed at someone else, “The Great Pretender” is a film about personal mythmaking and the art of self-absorption. Bouncing between narratives and time periods, writer/director Nathan Silver offers up a raw and honest view of something everyone has experienced, yet few have seen. It’s kind of like looking at your pancreas for the first time: a person might know it’s always been there, enjoying the work it does each day, but unless someone pulls it out for inspection, few know what it actually looks like.

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One of our favorite films of the year so far is “Thirst Street,” an indie about obsession, delusion and romance. Starring indie actor Lindsay Burdge (“A Teacher”), the film is arch and dreamy, and features a deliciously sly narration by Academy Award-winner Anjelica Huston. Our review described it as “a wry and disturbed look at lust and longing… delightfully twisted.”

READ MORE: Lindsay Burdge Sparkles In The Delicious Psycho Sexual Thriller ‘Thirst Street’ [Tribeca Review]

Directed by Nathan Silver the filmmaker told us in a quick email interview he wanted to write a lead part for Burdge who had a role in his previous film, “Actor Martinez.

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About once a year, we take stock of all the exciting movies we’ve seen, and all the tantalizing announcements we’ve covered, and picked out the names that we’re most excited about in a variety of fields for a series we call On The Rise.

Covering actors, filmmakers, composers, cinematographers, screenwriters and more, we’ve been ahead of the curve on names including David Oyelowo, Joel Edgerton, Emma Stone, Dane DeHaan, Daniel Kaluuya (back in 2012!), Brie Larson, Alicia Vikander, Colin Trevorrow, Benh Zeitlin, Dee Rees, Graham Moore, Bradford Young, Rachel Morrison, Steven Price, Jack Thorne, Pilou Asbaek, Emory Cohen, Will Poulter, Ruth Negga, Maika Monroe, Ryan Coogler, Sean Baker, Ava DuVernay, Natasha Braier, Mica Levi, Johan Johansson, Andre Holland, Jack O’Connell, Lisa Joy, Tessa Thompson, Katherine Waterston, LaKeith Stanfield, Damien Chazelle, Yann Demange, Taylor Sheridan, Bel Powley, Sterling K.

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Of all the films I saw at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, Nathan Silver’s “Thirst Street” was easily the best one. Starring Lindsay Burdge (“A Teacher”), the movie is influenced by the erotic 1970s dramas of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, but gives a deviously funny edge (think Roman Polanski’s “The Tenant”) to what is a delicious psycho sexual drama.

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To keep it indie 100 for a minute and hopefully not sound too obscure, if indie filmmaker Alex Ross Perry was to Roman Polanski what his paranoiac feature “Queen Of Earth” was to Polanski’s “The Tenant,” then director Nathan Silver is to Rainer Werner Fassbinder what “Thirst Street” is to the German New Wave director’s “Lola.” Plus, well, throw in a little additional devilish Polanski for good measure, too.

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Prolific indie filmmakers Mike Ott and Nathan Silver team up for the experimental and meta “Actor Martinez,” an exploration into the oftentimes difficult process of unearthing the honesty in acting. They take an interesting route to the truth, deliberately obfuscating the line between fiction and nonfiction in a film within a film, lulling the audience into one reality and then abruptly jarring you out of one scenario and into another. 

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Rotterdam Exclusive: Clip And Poster For Nathan Silver's 'Stinking Heaven'

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LAFF Review: Nathan Silver's 'Uncertain Terms' An Affecting and Deftly Told Family Affair

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LAFF Exclusive: Poster Debut for Nathan Silver's Latest 'Uncertain Terms'

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Review: 'Exit Elena' A Funny, Uncomfortable Analysis Of Family & Need

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