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	Edgar G. Ulmer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Film director Edgar G. Ulmer (1904-1972) is mostly remembered for the movies The Black Cat (1934) and Detour (1945).
		Ulmer's career was spent mostly in Poverty Row cinema: after an early success at Universal with The Black Cat, Ulmer, for both personal reasons and a desire for creative independence, left the major studios behind.
		Ulmer then found a niche making melodramas on tiny budgets and with often unpromising scripts and actors for PRC (Producers Releasing Corporation).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edgar_G._Ulmer (396 words)

	Edgar G. Ulmer
		Edgar George Ulmer was one of the very few genuinely creative filmmakers who, for a time, chose the world of low-budget B-films over the more opulent milieu of mainstream, high-profile A-pictures.
		Ulmer and Fromkess got along well, and he was able to persuade Fromkess of his ability not just as a director able to bring in good movies for very little money, but also as a production executive.
		Ulmer remained with PRC after Fromkess' departure in 1946, but his relationship with the tiny studio ended in 1947, after he was loaned out to direct The Strange Woman at United Artists.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P114867 (1126 words)

	The Films of Edgar G. Ulmer
		Ulmer's characters are often artists: the musicians here and in Jive Junction, the mystery writer and architect in The Black Cat, the puppeteer and modiste in Bluebeard.
		Ulmer often shoots frontally, so that his camera frame is parallel to the back wall of the room.
		Ulmer's fondness for train scenes also seems to be related to this imagery: passenger train cars are made up of long corridors with regularly repeating rooms.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/ulmer.htm (9008 words)

	Edgar G. Ulmer -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Film director Edgar G. Ulmer (1904-1972) is mostly remembered for the movies (additional info and facts about The Black Cat) The Black Cat (1934) and (A roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)) Detour (1945).
		Ulmer then found a niche making melodramas on miniscule budgets and with often unpromising scripts and actors for PRC ((additional info and facts about Producers Releasing Corporation) Producers Releasing Corporation).
		Detour (1945) has achieved considerable acclaim as a seminal example of (additional info and facts about film noir) film noir, and was picked by the (additional info and facts about Library of Congress) Library of Congress as one of the first group of 100 films worthy of special preservation efforts.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ed/edgar_g._ulmer.htm (494 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Edgar G. Ulmer
		Edgar G. Ulmer (1904-1972) was one of many beneficiaries of the wave of auteurism that galvanized critics in France in the 1950s and their American counterparts in the 1960s.
		Ulmer was one of a slew of directors whose work became the subject of cinema club retrospectives, articles in obscure journals, and feverish advocacy and argument by auteurists whose passion was trawling the backwaters of classic Hollywood’s commercial cinema.
		Ulmer was a music fanatic, and it shows in his faithful re-creation of bits of Faust complete with mandolin-strumming Mephistopheles and a too-real-for-comfort hellfire, which sprung onto the stage, threatening the puppeteers and burning the eyebrows off the puppets.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /28/ulmer1.html (2237 words)

	Edgar G. Ulmer
		John Belton has written that Ulmer's characters are “powerless prisoners of an irrational series of experiences which they can neither understand nor control,” and suggests that “they repeatedly surrender themselves to their intuitive but irrational impulses,” existing “only as passive reactors to what happens to them.” (6) I think this is an oversimplification.
		Ulmer establishes Al's ambivalence not only through the narrative, and the relation between narrative and narration (this structural dissonance quite justifies Britton's claim that Detour is “one of the most demanding and audacious narratives ever produced in Hollywood”), (17) but also in several musical episodes early in the film.
		Ulmer's films often seem like a running reflection on the self-destruction of individuals and civilizations, on the extent of human delusion, rapacity, and ineptitude, in which the impoverishment of his means expresses the tragic limitations of the world he represents.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/03/ulmer.html (5643 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Edgar G. Ulmer Collection: Volume 1 Moon Over Harlem / The Strange Woman
		Ulmer was engaged to direct as a result of his knowing Donald Heywood who had written "The Green Pastures" and "Porgy." The film was pretty well ready to go when Ulmer came on board and a contract was in place for it to play on the fl circuit in the South.
		Ulmer was still under contract to PRC when Hedy Lamarr decided that she would like him to direct her in her first film after the end of her MGM contract.
		Ulmer, as a consequence, continued to receive only his normal salary of $250 per week while PRC pocketed $1500 or $2500 (depending upon whether you believe Ulmer or his widow).
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/edgarulmer1.php (1813 words)

	Edgar G. Ulmer - Der Mann im Off
		Ulmer wollte gewollt werden, aber sobald er gewollt worden wäre, hätte er das "Gewolltwerden" satt gehabt.
		Ulmer behauptete, bei vielen Filmen dabei gewesen zu sein, die ihm Prestige geben sollten, ein kulturelles Kapital, das er als dieser Emigrantenregisseur brauchte, um Arbeit zu finden.
		Die Figur ähnelt Ulmer: ein Immigrant, der verzweifelt nach Akzeptanz sucht und sich in dieser feindseligen Umwelt wiederfindet, mit der er zu kommunizieren versucht, wie Ulmer mit all seinen Filmen nicht unbedingt immer erfolgreich.
	www.3sat.de /ard/kinomagazin/74564/index.html (1661 words)

	Slackjaw: Edgar G. Ulmer
		Ulmer was born and raised in Germany, where he was an art director and apprentice for Max Reinhardt, and good friends with F.W. Murnau (perhaps best known for directing the original Nosferatu).
		Ulmer wanted to give the film a German Expressionist feel, to make an American Caligari, and the results are surreal and terrifying in a way The Mummy could never hope to be.
		Ulmer’s daughter, Ariané Ulmer Cipés, who runs the Edgar G. Ulmer Preservation Corp., and acted in several of her father’s films, confirms both stories.
	www.missioncreep.com /slackjaw/1998/ulmer.html (1891 words)

	The Edgar G Ulmer Collection
		One of the most prolific, consistently interesting low-budget filmmakers of the 30s, 40s, and 50s, Ulmer possessed a visual falir and independent career path that became his trademarks.
		Viewers who are interested in Ulmer's career or in the origins of independent filmmaking should find the productions fascinating.
		There is a delightful 6 minute interview segment with Ulmer's widow as she reminisces about the two productions.
	www.alldayentertainment.com /online-store/scstore/allday/ulmer/reviews.html (857 words)

	The Edgar G Ulmer Collection
		In December 1957, Edgar Ulmer and his longtime friend, actor Louis Hayward (star of Pirates of Capri) went to Mexico to shoot a 13 episode TV series based on Johann Wyss' The Swiss Family Robinson.
		Ulmer and Hayward were to alternate directing the episodes, and once the project was complete they planned to present it to the networks for sale.
		Ulmer never made another movie, and he passed away in 1972.
	www.alldayentertainment.com /online-store/scstore/allday/ulmer/p-swiss.html (359 words)

	All lost in wonder: Edgar G.Ulmer
		Edgar G.Ulmer (1904-72) suffered a series of strokes and toward the end of his life was almost totally paralyzed and unable to speak.
		Arianne Ulmer observes that not only was her father confused at the time of the interview, after a massive stroke, but "besides he was a great story teller and each time he told a story it got a little bigger and better.
		Ulmer filmed her in takes as long as nine-and-a-half minutes, and evidently his baton technique was inspired, for her movements are completely balletic and her dialogue almost Lieder.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr0301/tgafr12a.htm (7669 words)

	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It's not exactly a household name, but Edgar G. Ulmer means a lot to cultists who appreciate this director who made much of little, lending unmistakable personal style to movies whose budgets were meager at best.
		Ulmer (1904-1972), who studied architecture and philosophy in his native Vienna, designed sets for famed stage director Max Reinhardt and was an assistant to filmmaker F. Murnau, who brought Ulmer to Hollywood.
		Another of Ulmer's famed low-budget noir thrillers is Strange Illusion (1945), a contemporary variation of Shakespeare's Hamlet in which a young man finds his nightmare coming to life.
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,81364,00.html (395 words)

	DVD Verdict: Edgar G. Ulmer
		Ulmer's Universal period came to an abrupt end soon thereafter when he began an affair with Shirley Alexander, wife of Max Alexander—a Universal executive related to studio boss Carl Laemmle.
		As a result, Ulmer and his now-wife Shirley moved to New York where Edgar managed to scrounge a living making films for the Yiddish, Ukrainian, and fl communities, as well as for the military, auto industry and the National Tuberculosis Association.
		Virtually all of Ulmer's efforts were shot in 6 or 7 days, although preparatory script and set design work typically took several weeks.
	www.dvdverdict.com /columns/classics/edgarulmer.shtml (1207 words)

	48th S.F. International Film Festival
		At its heart is Ulmer’s daughter, Arianné, dedicated to preserving her father’s cinematic legacy—an arduous task, since Ulmer, who emigrated to America in the early 1930s, was flballed into the Hollywood margins after “stealing” a studio boss’s daughter-in-law-to-be.
		Evocative use is made of Bogdanovich’s old audio interviews; Ulmer whispers wisdom from beyond the grave to such modern-day protégés as John Landis and Wim Wenders.
		Ulmer’s fascination with movie trickery is shared by director Michael Palm, whose delight in mimicking the director’s penny-wise techniques pays off in weirdly inspired interviews featuring Detour-like back projection and fog machines straight out of Man from Planet X.
	www.sfiff.org /fest05/titleDetail.asp?title_id=27 (245 words)

	Edgar G. Ulmer - Review - Movies - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As might be expected, the gang at Cahiers du Cinéma was hip to Ulmer early on - in 1955, Jacques Rivette generously mentioned him alongside Nicholas Ray and Anthony Mann - but the major studio powers could not have been less interested.
		Ulmer, who was Jewish, left Germany for good by 1930, settling in Hollywood for a time.
		Ulmer fans will be happy to know that the documentary is playing as part of the abbreviated, nine-title retrospective of his work that opens today at the Anthology Film Archives and continues through Thursday.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /click/author-5988/reviews.php?rid=1419956&cats=1%2C+2%2C+3%2C+4%2C+5%2C+7%2C+8%2C+29%2C+12%2C+13%2C+14%2C+16%2C+17%2C+18%2C+19%2C+20%2C+21%2C+22%2C+24%2C+23%2C+26%2C+27&genreid=&switches=&letter=&sortby=&page=5 (770 words)

	Biography for Edgar G. Ulmer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ulmer, an eccentric and iconoclast, refused to become part of the studio machine, and was banished to Poverty Row, directing for small, independent studios, including much work on Yiddish and Ukrainian projects.
		Ironically, these nonmainstream environments allowed Ulmer an artistic freedom he would probably have been denied working for the bigger studios, and his films came to be characterized by a visual style steeped in his German Expressionist background.
		He was the resident "auteur" at lowly PRC during the 1940s, and while most of his output there defies analysis, he did at least create one bona fide cult classic, the minimalist noir thriller Detour (1946), reportedly shot in three days with a tiny cast and crew.
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	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Edgar G. Ulmer: The Pirates of Capri
		Edgar Ulmer’s reputation rests largely on a series of no-budget, claustrophobic noirs and thrillers like Strange Illusion, Bluebeard, and of course Detour.
		Ulmer’s skill as a director of action is evident throughout the film but particularly in the opening sequence and in a duel-to-the-death between Sirocco and Holstein.
		A frequent collaborator with Ulmer and a lifelong friend (he even lived with the director’s family sometimes, according to daughter Arianne), Hayward injects life into what at first seems to be an unremarkable Zorro-like character.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /32/piratesofcapri.html (951 words)

	Edgar G. Ulmer
		In short, Edgar G. Ulmer, the poet of Poverty Row, is up to his usual tricks--wresting dynamic imagery out of next-to-nothing, even if Carnegie Hall represents a comparatively upscale endeavor in his expressionist/minimalist career.
		One of Edgar Ulmer's most lavishly produced features, this swashbuckling adventure is packed with action and intrigue, set to a sumptuous musical score by the incomparable Nino Rota.
		The third installment of our collection of classic genre films by the famed low-budget auteur Edgar G. Ulmer, "Daughter of Dr. Jekyll" stars Gloria Talbott as the daughter of the infamous mad scientist who is terrified that she has inherited her father's curse.
	www.dvdvan.com /find/Director/DVD/Edgar%20G.%20Ulmer/page-1.html (646 words)

	Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		SAN FRANCISCO -- Edgar G. Ulmer, the prolific king of sub B-pictures, is the focus of the disappointing documentary "Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen." A portrait of a nearly forgotten filmmaker as well as a long, strange trip through the murky depths of B-movies, Michael Palm's film remains earthbound despite its interesting, offbeat subject.
		No footage of Ulmer was available, so Palm relied on a few still photographs, audio tapes of Peter Bogdanovich's interviews with the director and talking heads like Arianne Ulmer Cipes, Ulmer's daughter and one of this film's producers.
		Ulmer, a European emigre, became a master of successful quickies.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000947048 (368 words)

	edgargulmer1999
		EDGAR G. A Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation 501(c)(3) Committed to the preservation and propagation of the work of independent, pioneering filmmakers.
		Ulmer drove his films forward at a fierce pitch, as if he realized how much he had to say, how little time (and resources) he had to say it with.
		Ulmer’s inspired remake of Hamlet (!) stars James Lydon as a young man tormented by dreams of his dead father -- until he realizes too-suave Warren Williams is out for his mother’s money, and has himself committed to a mental institution to prove his case.
	www.americancinematheque.com /archive1999/edgargulmer1999.htm (1733 words)

	Edgar G. Ulmer and how to make movies cheaply (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I was fascinated that Ulmer said he shot the master on the complete set, then for the close-ups, he placed the actors against a blank wall.
		Ulmer became fast friends with PRC producer Leon Fromkess (who eventually took over the studio) and a lasting alliance was formed.
		The most one can hope for are films that make the most of the modest resources and transcend their limitations of capital; films whose obvious budgetary shortcomings reveal the difficult conditions under which the filmmaker struggled to realize his/her vision, the financial obstacles that were cleared by ingenuity and clever craftsmanship.
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	Edgar G. Ulmer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Man From Planet X (1951) (as Edgar Ulmer)
		Edgar G. Ulmer - The Man Off-screen (2004) (voice)....
		Find where Edgar G. Ulmer is credited alongside another name
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0880618 (516 words)

	Films of Edgar G Ulmer
		Ulmer was born in what is now the Czech republic and raised in imperial Vienna; originally a student of architecture, he broke into the film industry as a teenager and, serving mainly as a set designer, shuttled back and forth between Berlin and Hollywood through the early ‘30s.
		An underground auteur, largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Ulmer has since taken his place among cinema’s legendary figures—an inspiration for the French new wave and a precursor of the American independent film movement, as well as an innovative and unique stylist in his own right.
		Edgar G. Ulmer’s last Yiddish movie was also his most modern, an art deco romantic comedy about male ambivalence and Jewish assimilation.
	www.brandeis.edu /jewishfilm/Catalogue/ulmer.htm (1108 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > Edgar G. Ulmer: Archive
		This triple disc set is a five-feature compilation of Edgar Ulmer films previously released separately, a cross-section of the director's 40s commercial work with a couple of oddball features thrown into the mix.
		Jimmy Lydon is discouraged from investigating his father's death and is suspicious of the new man in his mother's life; he eventually becomes the victim of a conspiracy and is committed to an asylum.
		This disc has an interview with Ulmer's Daughter Arrianné explaining her non-profit foundation to preserve her father's films, many of which have fallen into the limbo of unresolved legal rights.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=18507 (1259 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - Detour (1945), Edgar G. Ulmer, Tom Neal, Ann Savage, dvd review
		Ulmer was also adept at shooting quickly and interestingly, hence the ragged feel of the movie.
		Ulmer also invented the idea during the climax of moving the camera in and out of focus over the objects in the hotel room after the murder.
		Edgar G. Ulmer became known for his ability to shoot fast and cheap, and so he never "advanced" to making A-pictures.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /detour.shtml (1099 words)

	Edgar G. Ulmer Movies - BestPrices.com's Edgar G. Ulmer Movie Catalog
		Low budget director Edgar G. Ulmer cemented his reputation with this downbeat film noir masterpiece.
		Edgar G. Ulmer: The King of the Bs on DVD
		Edgar G. Ulmer was renowned in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood for making great B-movies whose artistic quality transcended the restrictions of their paltry budgets.
	www.uln.com /cgi-bin/vlink/directors/dvds-by-director-Edgar-G.-Ulmer.html (706 words)

	village voice > film > Edgar G. Ulmer marathon on TCM by J. Hoberman
		The legendary maestro of post-German-Expressionist grade-Z noir, ethnic indies, and cheap sci-fi flicks turns 100 this Friday (or maybe 104) and hardcore cineastes are invited to take a break from Film Forum's Murnau fest for TCM's birthday tribute to Murnau's onetime set-builder and aesthetic heir, Edgar G. Ulmer.
		Ulmer's acknowledged masterpieces, The Black Cat (1934) and Detour (1945), are reserved for prime time.
		But if there was ever an artist meant to be appreciated on mid-morning or late-night TV, it is Ulmer.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0437/hoberman3.php (226 words)

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