 Tweek City's Profile |
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| Age: | 101 years old |
| Sex: | Male |
| Location: | LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA |
| Country: |  United States |
| Zodiac: |  Leo (Jul 23 - Aug 22) |
| Last Login: | Jun 4, 2008 (571 days back) |
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About Me |
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Underground film sensation Giuseppe Andrews (Detroit Rock City, Cabin Fever) plays a sexually confused, half-Latino, speed-dealer who loses his grasp on reality and plunges into a downward spiral through the streets of San Francisco to Los Angeles where, sleep-deprived and hallucinogenic, he is forced to do battle with his past before he can find peace in the present. DVD AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE NOW! "A double-whammy discovery for writer-producer-director Johnson and for his star, Giuseppe Andrews. It is a harrowing yet illuminating odyssey driven by an impassioned, confident filmmaker and a young actor of equal resources and daring...darkly vital and poetic." - Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times "Compulsively viewable...San Francisco hasn't felt so ominous since Richard Lester's 'Petulia'... Johnson mixes film and video formats to superior and nerve-rending effect, and his taste for run-and-gun scenes produces some disgusting but choice moments...Andrews gives body and soul to the role in ways that recall the daring of Al Pacino in 'Panic in Needle Park.'" - Robert Koehler, Variety Watch the trailer... Visit the official website to get more details! www.tweekcity.com |
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My Interests |
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REPRESENT TWEEK! T-Shirts, Trucker Hats & Messenger Bags available at TweekCity.com! |
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Music:Tweek City features the music of... White Trash Debutantes Dean Friedman Third Grade Teacher Visitor 42 New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars Enablers David Meredith Alec Haavik Quartet Jim Latham (Composer) |
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Movies:Werner Herzog: Strozek, Signs of Life, Kaspar Hauser, Land of Silence and Darkness, Grizzly Man, Aguirre - The Wrath of God, La Soufriere, Even Dwarfs Started Small, etc., etc.Roger Ebert on Werner Herzog (my sentiments exactly): "Herzog by his example gave me a model for the film artist: fearless, driven by his subjects, indifferent to commercial considerations, trusting his audience to follow him anywhere. In the 38 years since I saw my first Herzog film, after an outpouring of some 50 features and documentaries, he has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." John Cassavetes: Woman Under the Influence, Love Streams, Faces, Minnie & Moscowitz, Shadows, etc. etc. Roman Polanski: The Tenant, Cul de Sac, Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown Alexander Paine: Sideways, About Schmidt, Election Mike Leigh: Life is Sweet, Naked, Secrets & Lies Hal Ashby: Harold & Maude, Coming Home, Being There, Shampoo, The Last Detail Godard: Breathless, Contempt Kurosawa: Dersu Uzala, Ran, Kagemusha, Yojimbo, Seven Samurai Truffaut: Jules and Jim, 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player Errol Morris: Gates of Heaven, Fog of War, Mr. Death Jarmusch: Stranger than Paradise, Down By Law, Mystery Train, Dead Man Early Scorsese: Mean Streets, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, King of Comedy. Goodfellas is the only movie worth talking about recently. Early Coppola: Godfather's 1 & 2 ... 3 doesn't exist, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, Rumble Fish Van Sant: Drugstore Cowboy, Elephant, Last Days, To Die For Woody Allen: Manattan, Annie Hall, Play it Again Sam, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Deconstructing Harry, Husbands and Wives, Sweet & Lowdown, Stardust Memories, Alice, Purple Rose of Cairo... Billy Wilder: The Apartment, Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove, Clockwork Orange, Lolita, Paths of Glory, Full Metal Jacket, 2001 Other great films: Into the Wild - No Country For Old Men - Ratatouille - The Bourne Ultimatum - Trees Lounge - Last Tango in Paris - A Streetcar Named Desire - On the Waterfront - - 8 1/2 - Juliette of the Spirits - Do the Right Thing - Whale Rider - Nashville - Menace 2 Society - Short Cuts - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Five Easy Pieces (maybe my favorite ever) Ratcatcher -- Missouri Breaks - Once Upon a Time in the West - Julien Donkey Boy - Roger & Me - Bowling for Columbine - Lost in Translation - Fargo - Miller's Crossing - All That Jazz - - Cabaret - Blood Simple - Animal House - Caddyshack - Jaws - Star Wars - Raiders of the Lost Ark - Oliver! - Catch Me If You Can - Slingblade - Batman Begins - Crumb - Ghost World - Dream With the Fishes -A Simple Plan - Monster's Ball - Dead Man Walking - Darkman - The Gift - Reservoir Dogs - Kill Bill 1&2 - Jackie Brown - The Deer Hunter - The Dead Zone - Dog Day Afternoon - Happy Together - Singin' in the Rain - Before Night Falls - That's Entertainment - The General - It Happened One Night - Bottle Rocket - OFFICE SPACE - Rushmore - The Royal Tenenbaums - Rules of Attraction - Happiness - Welcome to the Dollhouse - Safe - Velvet Goldmine - I'm Not There - Don't Look Back - No Direction Home - The French Connection - Wages of Fear (the original) - The Exorcist - Halloween - Vertigo - North By Northwest - Strangers on a Train - Blackmail - Frenzy -- okay everything Hitchcock did - The Bad News Bears (the original) - Slacker - Dazed & Confused - Before Sunrise - School of Rock - Almost Famous - Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Network - The Pawnbroker - The Wizard of Oz - Sleeping Beauty - Citizen Kane - Slap Shot - Cool Hand Luke - Bonnie & Clyde - The Ice Storm - Brokeback Mountain - Sense and Sensibility - The Third Man - Brief Encounter - Y tu Mama Tambien - City of God - The Sorrow and the Pity - Ulee's Gold - You Can Count on Me - Prick Up Your Ears - Sid & Nancy - The Decline of Western Civilization - Over the Edge - River's Edge - Little Darlings (I had a weakness for Kristy and Tatum in the day) - Blue Velvet - At Close Range - Ed Wood - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Being John Malkovich - Lawrence of Arabia - Barfly - Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - American Me - Toy Story - Badlands - Days of Heaven - The Thin Red Line - Wonder Boys - Monty Python & the Holy Grail - Alien - The Manchurian Candidate - The Graduate - Midnight Cowboy - Young Frankenstein - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - This is Spinal Tap - Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf - The Marriage of Maria Braun - Sherman's March - Saturday Night Fever - Boogie Nights - Blow - Swingers - The Three Colors Trilogy - The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - Heavenly Creatures - The Bicycle Thief - Brazil - Johnny Guitar - Detour - High Fidelity - My Beautiful Laundrette - Bob Roberts - Bull Durham - George Washington - Glengarry Glen Ross - Tribute - Zeffireli's Romeo and Juliet - Elephant Man - Eraser Head - A Hard Day's Night - The Three Musketeers - Petulia - Robin and Marian - Sophie's Choice - Burden of Dreams - Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse Other movies involving speed: Spun - Salton Sea - Tweeked |
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Television:It's not TV, it's HBOThe Daily Show |
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Books:Authors, Books, Comic Books etc.: |
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Heroes:I don't believe in heroes. |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | In a Relationship |
| Hometown: | Los Angeles |
| Smoker: | No |
| Drinker: | Yes |
| Occupation: | Filmmaker |
My Pictures |
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My Blog |
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Tweek City DVD & Pretty Smart on MTV |
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| As most of you know, Tweek City came out on DVD in January last year and was on the new release shelf at Blockbuster for over 6 months! It’s still out on Netflix, Amazon, Blockbuster, etc. so if... Posted by Tweek City on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:15:00 PST |
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Check out this event: Tweek City Midnight Screening |
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| Hosted By: Eric JohnsonWhen: Friday Dec 08 & Saturday Dec 09 at 11:59 PMWhere: Laemmle's SUNSET 58000 Sunset BlvdWest Hollywood, CA 90046USDescription:Eric Johnson Click Here To View Event... Posted by Tweek City on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:37:00 PST |
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Latest Press Release |
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| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Critically acclaimed feature film, Tweek City celebrates its JANUARY 2, 2007 U.S. DVD RELEASE with two special midnight screenings at Laemmle's SUNSET 5 on Friday, December 8... Posted by Tweek City on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:24:00 PST |
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DVD RELEASE & 2 MIDNIGHT SHOWS COMING SOON! |
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| Hello Tweekers!After too many years and too many dollars to count, Tweek City is finally on the fast track to your local DVD retailer!Maverick Entertainment Group will be releasing Tweek City on DVD t... Posted by Tweek City on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:50:00 PST |
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Tweek City Press Kit: Visual Approach |
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| We shot Tweek City in three different formats, on five different cameras. Each camera was chosen to provide a different look and represent a distinct point of view. When I brought Barry (My Director o... Posted by Tweek City on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:23:00 PST |
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Tweek City Press Kit: Jerm, Deano & the White Trash Debutantes |
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| Jerm is personified by the music he embraces. Many people stepped up with great music that ended up on the Tweek City soundtrack but only Jerm's favorite bands were specifically included at the screen... Posted by Tweek City on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:11:00 PST |
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Tweek City Press Kit: Casting Giuseppe |
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| The one person I had in place before I left L.A. was Patrick Baca, my casting director. Once I had a schedule, Patrick and I began casting the principal actors out of Los Angeles. Every week, I woul... Posted by Tweek City on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:17:00 PST |
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Tweek City Press Kit: Making the Movie |
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| In 2001, after exploiting the dotcom bubble for a very tiny fortune, I formed Tweek City LLC. I wrangled a couple of additional investors (all blood relatives) and in February 2002 moved to Oakland wi... Posted by Tweek City on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 01:34:00 PST |
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Tweek City Press Kit: The Screenplay |
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| When I began writing Tweek City in the early 1990s, it was out of frustration with the aforementioned speed scene (last post) and conceived as a broad satire. However, as I was writing, my focus turne... Posted by Tweek City on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 01:17:00 PST |
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Tweek City Press Kit: Filmmaker Comments |
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| This is the first of several posts I'll be making directly from my press kit.
Filmmaker Comments:
Bill Jensen personifies the dark side of the American melting pot. In an effort to assimilate, he has ... Posted by Tweek City on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:36:00 PST |
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