Mr. Isenberg, What drew you to German/Austrian studies? After being humiliated in my French class at Penn, my plans to spend junior year in Paris suddenly switched to junior year in Munich (I'd lived in Stockholm as a teenager, and had picked up Swedish, so German wasn't too terribly difficult Can ...

Thank you for your detailed answers, Noah. Here are a few more questions: 1.) One aspect of Ulmer's sometimes ambivalent personality that intrigued me in your book was his response to America, which seems to have been bound up with his contempt and longing for "that place between the desert an...

Thank you so much for your replies, Mr. Isenberg. Cineaste plus maudit indeed seems to describe the man perfectly, not to mention his movies. I hope you don't mind some more questions? I recently watched Her Sister's Secret , at Theresa/CineMaven's urging. I found the film really amazing in that th...

Welcome to the Oasis! I have a couple of simpler questions. 1. Is a good print of The Strange Woman available anywhere? This was one of the poorest prints I've ever seen on TCM. An interesting film, even if George Sanders isn't exactly the most obvious choice to play a lumberjack. You'd have to che...

Well, it appears that I'm a tad too late with the questions I had ready for Noah since most of them have been asked already. In any event I'll welcome Noah to the Silver Screen Oasis and I'll sit back and relax while I enjoy his responses to the questions which I find interesting. Thank you Joe Oh!...

ChiO, before we get serious here, let me note that I once saw at MOMA a 16mm print that included Ulmer's name in the Art Direction credits. But only that one time. I take it you mean Sunrise here. Is that right? If so, it would make sense (though I myself cannot verify it -- at least not on the fly).

Welcome to the Oasis! I haven't seen a lot of Ulmer's work, but I have a few questions. 1) On "The Black Cat," did he get along okay with Karloff? I read the Ulmer interview with Bogdanovich, and Ulmer seemed to imply that Karloff found "The Black Cat" to be a rather ludicrous p...

To the best of my recollection, I have never seen a print of Sunrise with an Ulmer credit--and yet he is indeed listed, together with Berlin-born designer Rochus Gliese, as the films official set designer. And in the reviews, he's even mentioned by name. I think here, despite his many dubious claims...

Hi, Mr. Isenberg! Thank you so much for visiting the Oasis! It's terribly exciting to have you here, since we are all Ulmer fans to one degree or another here. I just bought your book a week ago, but haven't been able to read even a page yet, I just haven't had any time as yet. Can you tell me if U...

I hope it's okay that I'm going through the posts, "quoting" them, and responding to each of the individual questions. I'll need to get to the remaining posts tomorrow, as I'm rather spent now. Thanks again for allowing me to serve as a guest visitor to Silver Screen Oasis. And thanks, too...

Welcome to the Oasis Noah! There are devotees here of film noir, whether of the revered kind or the obscure. Speaking for myself, I started off very young with Ulmer watching two of his classics - “The Black Cat” & “Detour” - and not knowing anything about him except these were two movies I rea...

Good Morning, and thank you for agreeing to visit our site today and tomorrow, Noah Isenberg our guide through " Edgar Ulmer: Filmmaker on the Margins" . To Our Members: Please bear in mind that our guest author will be teaching today, but plans to visit with us and answer your queries la...

Thank you for joining us at SSO to discuss one of my favorite directors. Please excuse the number of my questions, but there is such a dearth of researched information on Ulmer that I want to ask as much as I can while I can. 1. Early Career : Ulmer claimed to have worked on a great number of incre...

I'm running off to my next class, but will do my best to respond to all these very thoughtful posts later on today--probably this evening, after my little guys are asleep--and will have a good chunk available tomorrow to follow up on things. Again, thanks to all of you for your terrific interest, an...