RFO Editor Discusses Edgar G. Ulmer’s Strange Illusion on SUNY TV

Matthew Sorrento discusses Ulmer’s 1945 noir as a guest on Jerry Carlson’s City Cinematheque at SUNY TV

As part of the Film Noir series at SUNY TV’s City Cinematheque, RFO’s editor discusses a 1945 adaptation of Hamlet – and switcheroo of Double Indemnity – that maximizes the potential of the noir style in a Poverty Row studio. View the discussion here, or view the video below:

Matthew Sorrento is editor-in-chief of Retreats from Oblivion and Film International. A critic and poet, he teaches film and media studies at Rutgers University in Camden, NJ. His latest book is David Fincher’s Zodiac: Cinema of Investigation and (Mis)Interpretation (co-edited with David Ryan; FDU Press).

Jerry Carlson, host of SUNY City Cinematheque, is a producer, director, and writer for television and documentary films. He directs the Cinema Studies program at the City University of New York and is a member of the doctoral faculties of French, Film Studies, and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center.