Tarek Karkoutly's Profile

About Me

• Name Tarek Karkoutly
• Sex Male
• Location Los Angeles, CA United States
• Joined April 17, 2009
• Last Login 10:12PM, February 01 2010

Network Profile

• Resume/Filmography

  • Catatonic - Writer/Director/Editor, Lubbock, TX, 2004
  • Condemented - Co-Writer/Director/Editor, Lubbock, TX, 2006
  • Paperboy - Writer/Director/Editor, Los Angeles, CA, 2008
• Interests: Disneyland. Appreciating all aspects of creative filmmaking and then frowning toward the embrace of the hollywood mind. Every reissued musical collection released by Rhino Records. Steinbeck editing machines. Brian May's guitar collection. John Entwhistle's horn and bass playing ability. lingering on the notion that It's my life goal to eventually live inside disney's haunted mansion.
• Favorite Directors: Jean Luc Godard, Francois Truffau, Roman Polanski, Hal Ashby, Fedrico Felini, John Cassavattes, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Todd Solondz, Alexander Payne, Joel Coen, Sam Raimi, Wes Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Burton, Todd Haynes ,Woody Allen, Alfred Hi
• Favorite Actors: Malcolm Mcdowell, Omar Sharif, Jimmy Stewart, Elliot Gould, Michael J. Fox, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, John Cassavattes, Mia Farrow.
• Favorite Screenplays: Rosemary's Baby, Breathless, The Last House on the Left, Pink Flamingos, The Elephant Man, Welcome to The Dollhouse, Happiness, Storytelling, Tenebere, Martin, 8 1/2, Goodfellas, The Godfather, Dr. Strangelove, A Hard Day's Night, Suspiria, 400 blows, Com
• Favorite TV Shows: Freaks and Geeks, Twin Peaks, Silver Spoons, The Gong Show, Supermarket Sweep, Strangers With Candy, The Price is Right, Unsolved Mysteries, Perfect Strangers, The Office(British), The Ben Stiller Show, Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Daily Show with J
• Favorite Movies: Dr. Strangelove, A Hard Day's Night, Suspiria, 400 blows, Coming Home, Chinatown, Dawn of The Dead (1978), Roger & me, Juliet of the Spirits
• Favorite Music: Daniel Johnston,Timmy Thomas,Harry Nilsson, Squeeze, Split Endz, Altered Images, George Gershwin, Holly Golightly and The Greenhomes, The Who, Television, The Ramones, The Beatles ,LCD sound system, Rolling Stones, Syd Barrett, Kraftwerk, Goblin, Otis Red
• Favorite Books: EC comics,Fastfood Nation,The Fall of the house of Usher, Pamela, Slaughterhouse Five, The Fuck Up, From Whom the bell tolls, 1984, Crime and Punishment, the autobiography of Malcolm X, Steal This Book, Stupid White Men, Autobiography of Brian Wilson, Ple