Edgar G. Ulmer - The Man Off-screen

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Audience Member I've been familiar with the films of Edgar G. Ulmer, but never read about him or knew his story, which this film provided in an interesting and entertaining way. Featuring interviews with many current filmmakers (Peter Bogdanovich, John Carradine, Roger Corman, Joe Dante, John Landis, Wim Wenders) sharing their stories about Ulmer's history and featuring many clips from his films, they paint a picture of an iconoclast along the lines of Samuel Fuller, who refused to make conventional films and instead toiled in making many low budget genre pictures. Like Fuller, both sough bigger films, stars and budgets, but both also pretty steadily worked at making B-pictures, which gave them autonoby allowed them to make their unique films. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Film Geeks rejoice! A very good film about the king of the B's has been produced. I have only seen a hand full of Ulmer movies myself (Bluebeard, Detour, Moon Over Harlem, Strange Woman, The Man from Planet X and The Amazing Transparent Man on MST3K). But even from this lite exposure, I have always been very impressed by the way Ulmer could make something out of nothing. If you are a fan of Hitchcock, Fritz Lang or Billy Wilder you should check this out. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Ulmer is such a fascinating figure. Such enormous talent. His career was amazing/tragic. The ultimate idol for the struggling director. This doc has some terrific voices from the past and sheds some (not much) new light on the man but the structure of the film itself is distracting and, in the end, distracting. A good place to start if you are not familiar with Ulmer. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Film Geeks rejoice! A very good film about the king of the B's has been produced. I have only seen a hand full of Ulmer movies myself (Bluebeard, Detour, Moon Over Harlem, Strange Woman, The Man from Planet X and The Amazing Transparent Man on MST3K). But even from this lite exposure, I have always been very impressed by the way Ulmer could make something out of nothing. If you are a fan of Hitchcock, Fritz Lang or Billy Wilder you should check this out. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Film Geeks rejoice! A very good film about the king of the B's has been produced. I have only seen a hand full of Ulmer movies myself (Bluebeard, Detour, Moon Over Harlem, Strange Woman, The Man from Planet X and The Amazing Transparent Man on MST3K). But even from this lite exposure, I have always been very impressed by the way Ulmer could make something out of nothing. If you are a fan of Hitchcock, Fritz Lang or Billy Wilder you should check this out. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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