Alain Silver

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Alain Silver
On location in Paris, Winter 2019
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles, B.A., Theater Arts/Motion Pictures--Production, 1969; M.A. 1973 and Ph.D. 1976 in Theater Arts/Motion Pictures--Critical Studies.
Occupation(s)Film screenwriter, producer, director, historian, commentator, production manager, assistant director
Years active1977–present
SpouseLinda Brookover
Websitealainsilver.com

Alain Silver is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter; music producer; film critic,

horror films. Filmmakers about whom he has written include David Lean, Robert Aldrich, Raymond Chandler, Roger Corman, and James Wong Howe
.

Career

Education and Affiliations

Silver graduated from UCLA with degrees in film production (B.A.) and critical studies (M.A. and PhD).[1]

He is a longtime member of the Writers Guild of America, the Directors Guild of America, and the Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Radio and Television Artists.

Film Writing and Production

Silver entered the film industry through the Assistant Directors Training Program

Prime Suspect, Night Visitor, Cyborg 2, Beat, The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park, Crashing, Changing the Game, Sacred Blood (which he also wrote), Radio Mary, and Torch as well documentaries, music videos, and segments for the TV reality series America's Most Wanted
and I Survived!. He wrote and directed the short films A Fish in the Desert (2002) and Texas Vampire Massacre (2004) and the narrative features White Nights (adapted from Dostoyevsky, 2005) and Nightcomer (aka Blood Cure, 2013).

Silver has given lectures on production and appeared on and moderated panels for the Directors Guild of America,

Cinequest Film Festival
.

Critical Writing

Silver has written and edited more than thirty books, mostly with

vampire films, and other topics on film history and production. He has provided audio and video commentary on the DVD titles listed below. He has done film noir visual presentations on the long take, Billy Wilder and Double Indemnity,[3] and visual style for Hillsdale College and "A Noir Tour of L.A." at the Los Angeles Film Festival.[4] Books forthcoming in 2024 are From the Moment They Met It Was Murder, Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir (Running Press/TCM)[5]
and The Films of David Lean (3rd edition, Pendragon Books).

He has also produced more than fifty soundtrack albums for Citadel Records and Bay Cities Music.

List of audio commentaries

See also

References

  1. ^ Ford, Luke (2004). The Producers: Profiles in Frustration. New York: iUniverse, page 16.
  2. ^ DGA brief bio
  3. ^ "The Films of Billy Wilder--Double Indemnity as Film Noir".
  4. ^ Kevin Crust. "Story in Los Angeles Times". Archived from the original on July 9, 2006.
  5. ^ "From the Moment They Met It Was Murder".

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