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Penelope Spheeris (born December 2, 1945) is an American director, producer and screenwriter. She is best known as a documentary film director whose works include the trilogy titled The Decline of Western Civilization. She has also directed feature films, including Wayne's World, her highest grossing film.
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01 March 2009
The story of American film criticism.
05 August 1994
When nine-year-old Alfalfa falls for Darla, his "He-Man-Woman-Hating" friends attempt to sabotage their relationship.
13 April 1984
When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society.
02 March 1990
A couple who both work at wedding receptions encounter complications when they decide to marry.
15 October 1993
Mild-mannered dirt-poor hill-dweller Jed Clampett strikes it rich when oil is discovered on his property.
19 May 2020
The greatest cult horror and science fiction films of all-time are studied in vivid detail in the second volume of Time Warp.
26 August 1969
An unfinished archival short, in which the titular substance plays a key role in determining an outmoded man’s role in a changing society.
14 February 1992
The adventures of two amiably aimless metal-head friends, Wayne and Garth. From Wayne's basement, the pair broadcast a talk-show called "Wayne's World" on local public access television.
20 February 1998
A student gets his senses enhanced by an experimental drug. But abuse is not an option.
09 December 1989
Interviews with personalities including John Mellencamp, Spike Lee, Lou Reed, Roseanne Barr, David Byrne, George Michael and more, as they reflect on the 1980s.
01 January 1968
An early short film by Penelope Spheeris about a boy enjoying the age-old pleasures of making a wish on a dandelion.
21 October 2022
Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with over 80 movie clips from 1896 - 2020.
17 June 1988
An exploration of the heavy metal scene in Los Angeles, with particular emphasis on glam metal. It features concert footage and interviews of legendary heavy metal and hard rock bands and artists such as Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Megadeth, Motörhead, Ozzy Osbourne and W.
02 February 1996
When dignified Albert Donnelly runs for Governor, his team moves to keep his slow-witted and klutzy younger brother, Mike, out of the eye of the media.
12 February 1990
An entertaining combination of heavy-metal rockers and female mud wrestlers hosted by Jessica Hahn.
21 April 2020
From "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" to "The Big Lebowski" and everything in between, this fascinating deep-dive documentary begins its celebration of the greatest cult movies of all-time discussing the birth of the midnight movie.
16 December 2011
A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious low-budget producer and director in the US film industry, a pioneer of independent filmmaking and discoverer of new talent.
04 October 1974
Jared Martin plays an aspiring film maker obsessed with the idea of Christ as a woman, and tries to film his vision with Sondra Locke as his subject.
09 November 1971
A truly major work, I Don’t Know observes the relationship between a lesbian and a transgender person who prefers to be identified somewhere in between male and female, in an expression of personal ambiguity suggested by the film’s title.
14 March 1986
Roy and Bo leave their small town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to LA. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trail of bodies behind them.
01 August 1987
Two punks from the big city, traveling across the country in a Volkswagen bug, embrace the western ethos when they must take revenge against a group of rednecks for killing their friend in this lighthearted road movie.
13 December 1975
Albert Brooks is sick and stuck in bed. Saturday Night Live, Season 1 Episode 7
05 January 2003
Brian Cruver, an ambitious 26-year-old lands a job at Enron. As he assimilates to the company's get-rich-quick mantra, spending sprees and wild corporate "gatherings" become the norm.
02 March 1979
A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".
26 August 1968
Synthesis is director Penelope Spheeris' first film, made in 8mm Kodachrome while she was a student at UCLA.
16 May 2004
A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey.
03 September 1991
Documentery from 1991 where The 2 Live Crew, Chuck D (Public Enemy), Too Short, Ice-T, Geto Boys, H.W.
10 October 2011
An anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people's lives.
26 August 1998
One-time carny, bartender, and married 10 times, director Penelope Spheeris’ mother was an uncommon woman.
23 January 2018
At a pivotal moment for gender equality in Hollywood, successful women directors talk about their art, lives and careers.
01 July 1981
The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.
30 April 2011
Ben's fiancée has her heart set on an expensive dream wedding, but her father, Jack, has secretly gambled away all his money.
26 August 1969
Two years before Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park (1971), director Penelope Spheeris takes the McCarran Act to its inevitable next step and shows us—via an early use of mockumentary—what the U.
08 November 1975
Super mid-season replacements to failed shows in a network's super season. Saturday Night Live, Sea4
10 January 1976
Albert Brooks goes to a research institute to find out why people don't like him and how he can change that.
26 January 1991
Three novels - three dramatic stories in the walls of the women's prison. The first story - a brand new, first went to prison inmates.
11 October 1975
Albert Brooks presents a mockumentary in which he presents several shocking news stories. Saturday N1
19 May 2009
Legendary director Lloyd Kaufman, President of Troma Entertainment and Creator of the Toxic Avenger, reveals 40 years worth of maverick cinematic know-how in Direct Your Own Damn Movie!
05 February 1991
A short documentary accompanying the first EP released by Lifers Group, a rap crew that grew out of the Lifers Group Juvenile Awareness Program — a youth crime prevention program founded in East Jersey State Prison in 1976 and made famous by the documentary Scared Straight! Released in 1991 and directed by Penelope Spheeris, the 29-minute documentary was nominated a 1992 Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video, but the group's members were disallowed by prison officials from attending the ceremony.
01 January 1969
A white man goes on trial for having raped a black woman.
01 January 1999
Documents the making of BLOOD DOLLS, interviewing members of the cast and crew.
28 February 1986
A mother goes to Hollywood to find her runaway daughter. She discovers that the girl has become involved in the pornography industry, and goes to the police to get help in finding her.
26 August 1969
Made in an environment and at a time when frequent and gratuitous images of nude women permeated the work of her male counterparts, director Penelope Spheeris produced this intimate and sensual observation of a woman bathing.
07 August 1990
A video portrait of 2 Live Crew as they fought to release their album "Banned in the USA" during the censorship crisis of the late 80s and early 90s that ultimately resulted in the "PARENTAL ADVISORY EXPLICIT CONTENT" sticker.
02 December 2005
Aaron Roman is a teenager with cerebral palsy who dreams of starring in a big-time action movie. When his father grants Aaron his wish for his eighteenth birthday, he experiences the reality a bit hard to manage.
25 October 1975
Albert places an ad in a newspaper expressing a desire to perform a heart bypass & gets to live his dream of being a heart surgeon for one day.
13 November 1998
A musical study of Los Angeles in the late 90s, where homeless teens roam the streets and profess to live a punk lifestyle of music, drugs, and flouting authority.
15 December 2012
A pretty psychiatrist is saved from an accident by a man who, after hitting his head on a rock, believes he is Santa Claus.
18 October 1975
Albert Brooks introduces himself to the audience through showing them his home movies from childhood & attempts and fails at doing candid-camera style pranks.
17 April 1987
A group of campers revolt against their strict camp director and take over the camp for themselves.
11 October 2019
Equal parts personal essay, intense rumination, and playful satire, this movie laments the death of the American Video Store while it searches for the missing human element in today's digital landscape.
19 January 2001
Penelope Spheeris presents an amazing chronicle of the travelling musical carnival known as OZZfest, the most successful summer concert tour for the last five years.
08 January 1971
A ski instructor tries to teach a bunch of insanely eccentric people how to ski while dealing with everyone wanting his attention.
08 September 1988
Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.
07 December 2003
A documentary on the glam metal scene in Los Angeles in the 1980s. It features interviews with Vince Neil, Sebastian Bach, Dee Snider and more.
26 August 1972
Picking up the story first presented in I Don’t Know (1970), Hats Off to Hollywood (1972) brazenly and brilliantly mixes documentary reality with fully staged recreations/reimaginings of episodes in the lives of Jennifer and Dana, a loving, bickering couple who challenge the notion of homonormativity.
16 August 1999
N.Y.H.C. is the first feature-length documentary to explore the New York Hardcore music scene. Drawings its roots from punk rock, hardcore evolved into a dedicated, self-contained movement, unconcerned with success in the mainstream.
01 January 1970
An undercover cop cruises the streets of Hollywood looking for girls to pimp out.
