Skirting the murky waters of the relationship between ethnographic film and colonization, TIGRERO: A FILM THAT WAS NEVER MADE changes course to become a wonderfully engaging portrait of maverick Hollywood film director Sam Fuller. Fuller returns to the Amazon Rain Forest after filming
there 40 years previously and reminisces about his trip and his film career to his travel companion, contemporary downtown director Jim Jarmusch.
In 1954 Darryl Zanuck of Twentieth Century Fox hired Fuller to make an adventure film, to be shot in the deepest Amazon. Fuller went off to scout locations, taking with him a load of vodka and cigars and a 16mm Bolex camera. He returned...
Released:
1994
Rated:
NR
Length:
75 mins