Wild Tigers I Have Known (2007)
64 %
Reviews Counted: 22 Fresh: 14 Rotten:8 Average Rating: 6/10
Consensus:
Beautiful imagery and sharp performances make Wild Tigers a memorable film from first-time director Cam Archer.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Theatrical Release: Feb 28, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Middle school is rarely an easy time, but it's particularly difficult for Logan (Malcolm Stumpf) in this coming-of-age film set in the 1980s. He has the requisite unrequited crush--but the object of his affection is a boy named Rodeo (Patrick White). Logan spends time with Rodeo and fellow... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Malcolm Stumpf, Tom Gilroy, Fairuza Balk, Kim Dickens, Patrick White
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The movie wears its ancestors on its sleeve -- Tarnation and My Own Private Idaho, sure, but also Kenneth Anger, Warhol, Harmony Korine.
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11/12/07
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08/10/07
If you allow yourself to be immersed in its often beautiful images and its reflective, ethereal atmosphere, it can be a memorable experience.
07/07/07
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06/02/07
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05/22/07
This is lyricism at its most extreme, at once gripping and off-putting because Archer views his characters as if he were gawking at them through the bars of a cage.
05/01/07
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[Director] Archer isn't necessarily taking us anywhere new, but his movie's rapture is beautiful inside and out.
04/13/07
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Wild Tigers I Have Known studiously avoids the clichés of the genre. It's also exasperatingly inconclusive. Its dreamy, enigmatic characters often fail to engage.
04/13/07
Archer hypothesizes that the junior high boner is the first step toward a lifetime of heartache and peer humiliation, and his argument is a vivid one.
03/08/07
The filmmaker, Cam Archer, seems to be trying for a mood of hazy self-pity, which he achieves just enough to make you wish he'd get over it.
03/07/07
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There's just not enough psychological mustard to cover this earnest hotdog-of-a-movie about a male loner's breakout infatuation with the studmuffin of his wildest dreams.
03/03/07
While there's something admirable in [director] Archer's attempt at making an ambient song of the self out of the protagonist’s search for sexual identity (along with some heavily metaphorical mountain-lion attacks), the result is empty.
03/03/07
There is talent on display here, but it is ill-used, and that makes Wild Tigers I Have Known a frustrating experience.
03/02/07
Young writer-director Cam Archer uses disjointed imagery, textures and clashing sound to create something seamlessly odd and poignantly pubescent.
03/01/07
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First-time feature filmmaker Cam Archer turns what might have been an exercise in salaciousness into a stylish visual poem about desire and adolescent alienation.
02/28/07
Cam Archer is a 24-year-old with a future. At least that's the impression given by his first feature, Wild Tigers I Have Known, which he wrote and directed.
02/28/07
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The moment at the dawn of adolescence when hormones and daydreams swirl into a heady fog of confusion is poetically evoked in Wild Tigers I Have Known.
02/28/07
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If a film makes you root for the villain, and it's a "sesitive teen drama" then it fails.
02/26/07
Dreamlike first feature by [Cam] Archer -- short-form auteur of the queer teen crush -- in which a sensitive 13-year-old loner nurses an infatuation for an older boy.
10/28/06
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