Edgar G. Ulmer - The Man Off-screen (2004)
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The accomplished documentary editor Michael Palm (I Am From Nowhere, Calling Hedy Lamarr) takes his directorial bow with the nonfiction film Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen. Filmmaker Ulmer raised low-budget, B-picture production to the level of an art form, via careful aesthetic choices and an intelligent hand, producing such time-tested, sensationalistic 'cult classics' as Bluebeard, Detour, The Black Cat and Murder is My Beat. Yet he had, by all accounts, a relatively shadowy and
Jul 29, 2005 Wide
Oct 17, 2006
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This 77-minute primer sheds partial light on this B-movie legend who, unlike his contemporaries like Lang, never managed to ascend to the A-list.
Top CriticDespite some excellent talking heads, Palm's good-natured attempt to stuff Ulmer's life into a B-movie mold of its own ultimately lacks the lean crackerjack narrative stylization that marked the emigre helmer's best works.
[A] well-wrought investigation of the often mysterious life of Edgar G. Ulmer.
Michael Palm's film remains earthbound despite its interesting, offbeat subject.
The documentary employs many of Ulmer's trademark techniques, such as rear-projection, and tries to open up the usual talking-head format by taking the camera outside, in and around Hollywood.
The subject and the film clips are great, although the documentary as a whole is a bit gimmicky.
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Movie: ID: 770676936 Title: Edgar G. Ulmer - The Man Off-screen Release Date: 2005-07-29 00:00:00.0 MPAA: 6 Status: 1
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