The Horrible Flowers
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101 years old
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
United States
Last Login:4/20/2008
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The Horrible Flowers's Film Bio
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| Website | more of ERIC'S films: myspace.com/erictretbar | | Festivals | 2007 Tucson Film and Music Festival, AZ; 2007 Sound Unseen Screening, MPLS, MN; 2006 Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Special Preview Screening 2006 Hayfestival, Hay-on-Wye, Wales, UK | | Professional Affiliations | FLOWERS FILMS presents a FREAKBEAT production a film by ERIC TRETBAR starring EMILY CLINE, SCOTT M. FOSTER, and RENA OWEN with OZZY BENN, ALEX BAKER, CHARLES BRIN, JAIMI PAIGE, RON COLLIER, DAHLI LANGER, MEENI NAQVI, MATT CRONK, PAUL CHRISTENSEN casting director ELISABETH JERESKI, CSA costume designer KIERSTEN RONNING production designer CHERI ANDERSON editor GIOVANNI MESSNER director of photography ED DALLY executive producer REYNOLDS LASSITER associate producer RENA OWEN co-producer KIRSTEN TRETBAR producer KATHY FERREY producer ERIC TRETBAR written and directed by ERIC TRETBAR |
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The Horrible Flowers's Interests
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| Music | with new music by The Bridge Club, Melodious Owl, Qui, Friends Like These, Trailer Trash, and The Naff. Score by Eric Tretbar. | | Movies | Bunny Lake is Missing, Catch Us If You Can (Dave Clark 5), A Hard Day's Night, Dig, Rock and Roll Highschool, 24 Hour Party People, The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, This is Spinal Tap, Blow Up, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (brilliant!), Quadraphenia, The Kids Are Alright, Gimme Shelter, One Plus One (aka, Cocksucker Blues), Masculin-Feminine, Gigi 12x5, Head, Yellow Submarine, Help, King Creole (very subtle for its JD genre), Sid and Nancy, Rock and Roll Circus, East is East (for the dancing-to-the-45 scene alone!), Romper Stomper, Times Square, Diva, New York, NY (even without rock music), White. | | Heroes | Kathleen Hanna, Stereo Total, Margaret Doll Rod (THE DEMOLITION DOLLRODS!), Ssion, Kim Deal, Chrissy Hyndes, Siouxie, Poly Styrene, Kim Gordon, Lori Barbero, Pete Shelley, Nikki Sudden, Holly Go Lightly, Debi Harry, The Small Faces, The Undertones, Francoise Hardy, Nina Hagen, The Saints. |
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The Horrible Flowers's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Body type: | 0' 0" | | Zodiac Sign: | Leo |
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PRESS RELEASE - Tucson Film+Music Fest
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INTERVIEW with director, ERIC TRETBAR
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AUTEUR OF THE SCENESTER (article) by Peter Ritter
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THE HORRIBLE FLOWERS - cast/crew credit list
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STORY SYNOPSIS / production notes
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"Eric Tretbar is to indie-rockers as Kurosawa is to samarai...like [Lester] Bangs in ALMOST FAMOUS, a penetrating observer of those drawn to rock'n'roll's incandescent wick." (Peter Ritter, The City Pages, 29.June.05)
JUST IN FROM FILMTHREAT! -- "Bettina is a memorable and harrowing creation, and Cline plays the role with a force of personality that would easily oil up the Oscar-talk machine had this been a studio production. She brilliantly conveys the mixed emotions of someone who won’t stop in the chase for big league stardom, but who nonetheless realizes the ridiculousness of her life...It is an utterly compelling and powerful piece of acting."--Phil Hall, FILMTHREAT.COM (3 stars)
THE HORRIBLE FLOWERS (feature film--2006, 83 min, color--dramatic comedy, written and directed by Eric Tretbar) A garage-rock Orpheus story starring Emily Cline (IN THE COMPANY OF MEN), Scott M. Foster, and Rena Owen (ONCE WERE WARRIORS, STAR WARS).
STORY SYNOPSIS: The female leader of a threadbare garage band nearly destroys herself on the eve of her success when she returns to the family she left behind. Also starring music, bands and landmarks of the Minneapolis music scene, including FIRST AVE CLUB (of Purple Rain fame), THE TRIPLE ROCK SOCIAL CLUB (current scene hang-out), and the antics of Minneapolis natives Matt Cronk and Paul Christensen (of the LA band, QUI). The 4th feature film by writer/director, Eric Tretbar.
"The Horrible Flowers...is proof positive that Tretbar, long touted as 'someone to watch' has now very firmly arrived. This is a fine piece of work for it's writing, direction, photography and for some utterly captivating performances, not least, from Emily Cline in the role of Bettina. There is a corking soundtrack which drives the narrative forward, interspersed with incidental music from Tretbar's own fretboard which evokes Neil Young's score for Jarmusch's 'Dead Man'." (Paul Blezard, Oneword Radio UK, June 2006)
This film is dedicated to anyone who's ever been in a band, ditched a drummer, hooked up, broken down, finally made it, or almost died trying...To everyone who's helped with the film so far--thanks for your support
EMAIL: thehorribleflowers@yahoo.com.
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