Tigrero | 
| Director: Mika Kaurismaeki
Actors: Samuel Fuller, Jim Jarmusch
Studio: Fantoma
Category: DVD
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 100799
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 75 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 7041
UPC: 695026704126
EAN: 0695026704126
ASIN: B0001IXTB8
Theatrical Release Date: 1994
Release Date: May 18, 2004
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Description
In 1954, legendary filmmaker Samuel Fuller (PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET, SHOCK CORRIDOR) was sent by 20th Century Fox to the most remote regions of the Amazon to scout locations for his upcoming film TIGRERO!, a rousing adventure tale that was to star John Wayne, Ava Gardner and Tyrone Power. Fuller brought with him 75 cigars, two cases of whiskey, a gun, and a 16mm camera. There Fuller befriended the Karaja Indians, lived with them, and photographed their ceremonies and way of life. Reluctantly, Fuller returned to Hollywood but the film was never made. Forty years later, Sam Fuller returns to the Brazilian jungle, bringing with him his friend and fellow filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (DEAD MAN, DOWN BY LAW), a camera crew and the footage he'd shot those many years earlier. The ultimate storyteller, Sam tells Jim about his time with the Karaja, his career in Hollywood and his unique philosophy of life. They show the Karaja the footage Sam shot, conjuring up their friends and loved ones, some who's faces they haven't seen for decades. TIGRERO: A FILM THAT WAS NEVER MADE is priceless travelogue, a meditation on the power of film and the magic of memory, and a loving portrait of a gentle and spiritual culture.
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 Okay November 13, 2005
Steven Hellerstedt
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well, the then octogenarian maverick movie director Samuel Fuller is animated enough, and his co-star, indy director Jim Jarmusch, is laid back enough to make an interesting screen duo in Finnish director Mika Kaurismaeki's 1994's TIGRERO: A FILM THAT WAS NEVER MADE.
`Tigrero,' the unmade film in question, is a movie Fuller had sold to the studios in the 1950s. It's a love story larded onto a profile of a `tigrero,' a hunter of tigers, or jaguars, I guess, in the wilds of Brazil. The movie was a go, even had a cast - John Wayne as the tiger hunter, Ava Gardner and Tyrone Powell as the uneasily married couple - when it was quashed when insurance companies blanched and refused to underwrite the production. Not before, however, Fuller and crew had traveled into the interior of Brazil and spent some time filming a native village located on the Amazon River. The film went into the can and Fuller went on to other projects. Nearly four decades later Kaurismaeki, an independent movie producer like Jarmusch, gets funding for a project to revisit the same village with Fuller and Jarmusch.
Part documentary, part travelogue, part improvised fiction, TIGRERO: A FILM THAT WAS NEVER MADE is the result. The pre-departure scenes are improvised and awkward, and the journey - how they get to the village and get out - is never really shown. Fuller, an anecdote machine if you've ever seen one, is/was a great hero to Kaurismaeki and Jarmusch, and simply turning a camera on him and saying action probably would have been enough. The return to the village - Fuller isn't sure it's the same one, and it takes a while for him to be sure - comes across okay. Later, the village gathers together and the filmmakers show Fuller's old footage, which causes some people to recognize mothers, fathers, even themselves, and that comes across okay. In fact, everything comes across okay, although none of it, as Fuller would say, grabbed me by my ... privates. I guess you can file this one under `Interesting, Mild Disappointment.'
Also included on the disk is 20 minutes or so of the original, wide screen, color footage Fuller took in the 50s; fifteen-minutes or so of outtakes and additional footage of the 1994 movie; Jim Jarmusch's personal photos (good photographer); and a relaxed and reminiscence filled commentary track with Kaurismaeki and Jarmusch. Fans of Fuller and Jarmusch should give it a look.
 Sam Fuller, the storyteller July 12, 2000
albemuth
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is on the surface a documentary about a film Sam Fuller once wanted to make, an attempt on which time and effort was spent, but which for various reasons fell apart. It would have been a fine film, displaying his far-ranging interests and passions and his deep caring for people and their plight. All told, of course, in an exciting fashion with spellbinding action scenes! Romance! Thrills! Excitement! But what makes this film really so interesting is that it really is a tribute to Sam Fuller, the storyteller. His voice permeates the film as he recounts his past and ponders on the future, talking with Jim Jarmusch who follows him on this journey to the village that he once visited while location scouting for TIGRERO. I can just smell the cigarsmoke. And smile when he laughs!
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