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Product Description Tarpon; remastered to DVD, shot at Key West in 1973 and co-directed by Christian Odasso and Guy de la Valdene, with brief appearances by Richard Brautigan ( Trout Fishing in America, Thomas McGuane Ninety-two In the Shade), and Jim Harrison ( Dalva), original music written and performed by Jimmy Buffett. 53 minutes, $34.95. Review Tarpon is a timeless and beautifully executed film about life, sport and culture. You'll be moved, amused, outraged and, most of all, entertained. --Tom Brokaw, Journalist and Author This long-lost gem of a film has acquired cult status in the fly fishing world, and with good reason. It has the most breathtaking footage of the tarpon-stalking experience that you'll ever see. Like the fish itself, this is a work of art. --Carl Hiaasen, AuthorTarpon is a gem and, frankly, a window on better days. Without a profound respect for tarpon, this celebration of their majestic power and the enchantment of their pursuit, could never have been made. Tarpon fishing was and is a dream, and this may be the only time it's been captured. --Thomas McGuane, Author About the Actor RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Richard Brautigan's comic genius and countercultural vision of American life made him a literary idol of the 1960s and early 1970s. He wrote ten novels, nine volumes of poetry, and a collection of short stories. He is probably best known for his novel Trout Fishing in America (1967) which catapulted him to international fame and labeled by literary critics as the writer most representative of the emerging countercultural youth-movement of the late 1960s. Brautigan's last published work before his death was his novel So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away which was published in 1982, two years before his death. In 1984, at age 49, Richard Brautigan died of a self-inflicted gunshot-wound in his house looking out the ocean through his window. Brautigan once wrote, “All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.” JIM HARRISON Jim Harrison is the author of over 25 books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He has published four volumes of novellas, including Legends of the Fall (1979) and Revenge that were eventually turned into films. He has also written seven novels, including The Road Home, Wolf, A Good Day to Die, Returning to Earth, Farmer, Warlock, Sundog, and Dalva; seven collections of poetry; and two collections of nonfiction. The winner of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Spirit of the West Award from the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association, his work has been published in 22 languages. THOMAS MCGUANE Thomas McGuane's writing is noted for its mastery of language, a comic appreciation for the irrational core of many human endeavors, multiple takes on the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s, and an increasing devotion to family relationships and relationships with the natural world in the changing American West, primarily Montana, where he has made his home since 1968, and where his last five novels and many of his essays are set. McGuane is the author of several highly acclaimed novels, including The Sporting Club; The Bushwacked Piano, which won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters; Ninety-two in the Shade, which was nominated for the National Book Award; Panama; Nobody's Angel; something to Be desired; Keep the Change; and Nothing but Blue Skies. He has also written To Skin a Cat, a collection of short stories; and An Outside Chance, a collection of essays on the sport. His books have been published in ten languages. About the Director GUY DE LA VALDÉNE For an in-depth interview with the film's producer, visit MidCurrent's website. Guy de la Valdéne is a mystery to most fly fishers. If his name is known widely, it is because he hung out with Thomas McGuane, Jim Harrison, Richard Brautigan, Russell Chatham and Jimmy Buffet in Key West in the late sixties and earl
