Wild Tigers I Have Known

I actually really liked it. For some strange reason it sort of reminded me of Napolean Dynamite... but it wasn't a comedy. I found it to obe very touching and sweet--- sort of a rainy day movie. ^^*****... Full review

I actually really liked it. For some strange reason it sort of reminded me of Napolean Dynamite... but it wasn't a comedy. I found it to obe very touching and sweet--- sort of a rainy day movie. ^^*****... Full review

Instead of making a fascinating film about the development of a "crush" in adolescence, the filmmaker has managed to create a hollow story that goes nowhere, develops none of the characters, and is apparently attempting to be poetic and arty... Full review

I like this movie. For me some of the scenes were ambiguous, especially the ending. I recommend this movie to individuals who won't look at this film superficially. There are deep meanings in the film.... Full review

I like this movie. For me some of the scenes were ambiguous, especially the ending. I recommend this movie to individuals who won't look at this film superficially. There are deep meanings in the film.... Full review

I'm not a indie film person, and i honestly can't say that i understood what happened, other than the coming of sexuality within this kid. but where do the spiders and lions come into play? why is the film title include... Full review

I'm not a indie film person, and i honestly can't say that i understood what happened, other than the coming of sexuality within this kid. but where do the spiders and lions come into play? why is the film title include... Full review

had some lovely poetic bits but is really just an artsy-fartsy toss-together with no direction or resolution. how do these people get through film school? who gives them money to make this crap? could have been so much more, fine... Full review

Okay, I love independent films, but I expected a little more from this movie. I wanted a little more continuity. And, a better resolution. Please, someone tell me what the hell the ending meant. I bought the movie, so I'll watch... Full review

After watching this movie on DVD, I watched the trailer. The voice-over describes the movie as surreal. Well, there's surreal, and there's surreal. There was really only one part of the film that seemed surreal to me, but frankly, it... Full review

Like the onset of hormones, Cam Archers Wild Tigers I have Known mixes a heady swirl of daydreams and stripped-down self-awareness, resulting in a coming of age story as authentic as it is artful. His choice of erotica is just a little too fitting: the wrestlers match, drawn out in slow motion as their bodies contort and lunge and straddle one another, mirrors the symbolic struggle that Logan will endure with other boys in the film. ... Full Review

I even found myself thinking that stills taken from the film would serve nicely as fine art photography. In that sense, it may remind you of Van Sant's What little equilibrium Logan has in his life is thrown off when he encounters Rodeo (Patrick White), an attractively sullen hoodie-wearing school skipper two years older than himself. ... Full Review

Archer has obvious visual talent, and he is certainly ambitious, but this tale is dead on arrival. There is talent on display here, but it is ill-used and that makes Wild Tigers I Have Known a frustrating experience ... Full Review

Logan (Malcolm Stumpf) wants to be loved. This is discernible from the fact that he writes "I Want To Be Loved" on his shirtless torso with red lipstick. ... Full Article

Something Hollywood rarely gets right is young lust -- the inchoately hormonal middle-school kind. Eighth-graders in mainstream movies don't have hormones. Instead, they have older siblings who do. ... Full Article

For months, the IFC Center has been screening trailers for "Wild Tigers I Have Known" that pretentiously or self-mockingly, you decide proclaim the film to be one of the grandest visions ever of teenage angst and unrest. But as created ... Full Article

hirteen-year-old outcast Logan (Malcolm Stumpf) wants to be loved.This is discernible from the fact that he writes "I Want To Be Loved" on his shirtless torso with red lipstick. ... Full Article

Striking and self-indulgent in equal measure, Cam Archer's first feature, "Wild Tigers I Have Known," is an impressive declaration of talent that nonetheless gets a little drunk and disorderly at the trough of High Art. ... Full Article

Double Negative label, Emily Jane White's Dark Undercoat is a solemn trek down familiar roads, its hushed, dusky style of storytelling recalling the subdued side of PJ Harvey, with lyrical roots stemming from a common pool of reconstituted American gothic. ... Full Article