According to the Village Voice, a "well-wrought investigation of the often mysterious life of Edgar G. Ulmer," which ambitiously blends film clips, interviews, audio tapes, and vintage music cues into a fascinating documentary that pays homage to the filmmaking genius behind The Black Cat, Detour, and The Man From Planet X. Featuring testimonials from Roger Corman, John Landis, Joe Dante, Wim Wenders, and Detour's ultimate femme fatale Ann Savage, The Man Off-Screen paints a vividly impressionistic portrait of a no-budget auteur stylistically able to "take a rat and make Thanksgiving dinner out of it." On his own and in collaboration with movie legends F.W. Murnau, Fritz Lang, and Billy Wilder, from Berlin's legendary UFA Studios to poverty-row purgatory in Hollywood (where he was blackballed for stealing a studio exec's daughter-in-law), Ulmer created a unique and heady blend of old-world culture and twentieth century pulp pizzazz.

USA, Austria, Germany, 2004, 77 minutes, directed by Michael Palm, English

COST:
Student | $6
Yiddish Book Center and Springfield JCC Members, Seniors | $8
General Admission | $10

Co-sponsored by the Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival.

Film provided by Seventh Art Releasing, www.7thart.com.

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