Tura!

2024

Biography / Documentary

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 96%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 96%
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 195 195

tura satana

Plot summary

The one and only Tura Satana. Best remembered for her role as the fierce Varla in Russ Meyer’s 1965 cult classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Tura’s real life was just as wild and unapologetic as her on-screen persona. And her post-film legacy was just as noteworthy, leaving a fist-shaped mark on pop culture and an indelible signature in burlesque stages, queer clubs, and comic conventions everywhere.

Director

Cody Jarrett Photo
Cody Jarrett

Top cast

Margaret Cho Photo
Margaret Cho as Self - Narrator
Tura Satana Photo
Tura Satana as Self
Dita Von Teese Photo
Dita Von Teese as Self
Pamela Des Barres Photo
Pamela Des Barres as Self
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971.16 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 14
1.95 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us   fr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 29

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ElaH-2 10 / 10

Brilliant!

TURA! Is a tour de force of masterful filmmaking. It's a subject done with great sensitivity and humor. Tura Satana was an Asian American B-Movie star, burlesque dancer, and all around bad ass. Getting to know her and her lore is a real treat. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll get angry. TURA! Is an experience worth having.
Reviewed by jobroquilter 10 / 10

Enlightening

An enlightening look at the life of Tura. From truly humble beginnings and childhood abuse, she made a name for herself using wit and stamina. She overcame many obstacles to become an icon for females to look up to. She paved the way for women in entertainment.I really liked this documentary. It was thoughtful and did a great job of showing how resourceful Tura was in making her way in show business.
Reviewed by moonfan11 10 / 10

Hold Your Head Up! Hold Your Head High!

If there was ever a song that personifies Tura Santana in my mind, it's Argent's well-known classic track.I have never seen one individual hold their head high against so much violence, racism and trauma. I've never seen someone with so much intrinsic pride and self-awareness power through life with literally everything negative coming at them. And Tura was one of the most beautiful women in the history of Pinup if not thee most beautiful. There were so many photos that were new to me and snippets of film that I thought I was looking at Tura's other worldly beauty for the first time. Savage, complex, exquisitely stunningly, lovely with a roller coaster hourglass figure. More curves than a Rand McNally Road Atlas and that exquisite face and hair. Bettie Page may have *played* the dark side in tandem with ebullient sexual innocence but Tura actually *lived* both sides and much more.The team behind this documentary not only added a lot of love they created an excellent film. Superlative craftsmanship as filmmakers. Too many documentaries today rely on a lot of newer CGI stock footage and incongruous AI while TURA is a return to the artisan documentaries of the 1970s. The archival research in this is meticulous.For those who are longtime fans, this is going to be brutal. I want to warn you. I cried through much of it. Those of us who were fortunate to have Tura as a penpal during the My Space years will be particularly touched by how beautiful this documentary is. It was extremely important that the sexual assault not be peripheral or played down in any way, so there is that warning as well for SA survivors.A lot of craftsmanship went into this film and it was edited over the course of more than a few years. This is imperceptible as far as production and the final cut. A few of the interview choices are baffling but nonetheless a charming testament to the huge cross cultural, and cross generational appeal of Tura.My only constructive criticism about this near flawless documentary is that I would've liked to have seen the addition of interviewees with complex racial narratives. Tura's background was the subject of speculation and factoids, most of which she helped perpetuate in a delightful and self preserving way. And as we are given a fascinating reveal into Tura's ethnic and racial ancestry, as well as her daughter's by the end of the film i'd like to have seen more of an exploration. Great artist that she is, I don't hold Dita Von Teese as a bastion of knowledge and intellect regarding Asian American history -much less complex racial narratives. Nonetheless she was very sincere as were Greg Proops and others.Again, the love that went into this along with the excellent skilled craftsmanship puts it in its own echelon as a documentary.Do not miss Tura The Documentary!
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