ComingSoon is debuting an exclusive trailer for Tarpon, a long-lost cult traditional documentary about fly-fishing, which options unique music by Buffett, who was an up-and-coming singer on the time the film was made. The movie additionally paperwork Key West within the early Seventies, which served because the inspiration behind legendary musician Jimmy Buffett‘s iconic track “Margaritaville.”
“Thought-about one of many first true fly-fishing movies, Tarpon brings collectively famed American authors Richard Brautigan, Tom McGuane, and Jim Harrison with legendary flats guides Woody Sexton, Gil Drake, and Steve Huff as they muse about life, artwork, nature, and fishing the majestic Tarpon,” reads the official synopsis. “Shot within the wild panorama of Seventies Key West, the tarpon fishing and beautiful cinematography transports the viewer to a different period – a time and place the place the road between thinker, scoundrel, hippie, and eccentric was almost indiscernible.”
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When is the Tarpon 4K launch date?
The newly restored 4K model of Tarpon might be accessible to lease or personal on digital platforms beginning on March 28, 2025. This marks the primary time that the film might be accessible to audiences in HD, after its negatives had been rescued from a barn in Normandy in 2008. The documentary options American authors Richard Brautigan, Thomas McGuane, and Jim Harrison, with the latter narrating from his personal textual content.
“Tarpon is a gem and, frankly, a window on higher days,” McGuane mentioned in an announcement. “With no profound respect for tarpon, this celebration of their majestic energy and the enchantment of their pursuit, may by no means have been made. Tarpon fishing was and is a dream, and this can be the one time it’s been captured.”
Harrison added, “I imagine that Tarpon is the most effective movie ever made that considerations itself with fishing.”
The 1973 documentary was directed by Christian Odasso and Man de la Valdene, with Odasso additionally serving as a cinematographer. The movie was additionally edited by Marie-Sophie Dubus. It at present has a complete runtime of 54 minutes.
“Tarpon is a timeless and superbly executed movie about life, sport and tradition. You’ll be moved, amused, outraged and, most of all, entertained,” writer and journalist Tom Brokaw mentioned.
Journalist Carl Hiaasen added, “This long-lost gem of a movie has acquired cult standing within the fly-fishing world, and with good motive. It has probably the most breathtaking footage of the tarpon-stalking expertise that you simply’ll ever see. Just like the fish itself, it is a murals.”
