Penelope Spheeris
Birthday: 1945-12-02
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Biography: 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.
Movies
Thunder and Mud
An entertaining combination of heavy-metal rockers and female mud wrestlers hosted by Jessica Hahn....
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Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
The greatest cult horror and science fiction films of all-time are studied in vivid detail in the se...
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The Second Coming of Suzanne
Jared Martin plays an aspiring film maker obsessed with the idea of Christ as a woman, and tries to ...
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Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
From "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" to "The Big Lebowski" and everything in between, this fascinati...
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The Kid & I
Aaron Roman is a teenager with cerebral palsy who dreams of starring in a big-time action movie. Whe...
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Direct Your Own Damn Movie!
Legendary director Lloyd Kaufman, President of Troma Entertainment and Creator of the Toxic Avenger,...
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The Decline of Western Civilization
The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Fl...
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The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
An exploration of the heavy metal scene in Los Angeles, with particular emphasis on glam metal. It f...
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At the Video Store
Equal parts personal essay, intense rumination, and playful satire, this movie laments the death of ...
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Half the Picture
At a pivotal moment for gender equality in Hollywood, successful women directors talk about their ar...
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Brothers
Set in Los Angeles, Brothers tells the story of Vince, a brooding, mustachioed stud who’s visited by...
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Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming c...
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The Ski Bum
A ski instructor tries to teach a bunch of insanely eccentric people how to ski while dealing with e...
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Wedding Band
A couple who both work at wedding receptions encounter complications when they decide to marry....
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Corman's World
A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious ...
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Decade
Interviews with personalities including John Mellencamp, Spike Lee, Lou Reed, Roseanne Barr, David B...
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For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
The story of American film criticism....
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Calling the Shots
Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share ...
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Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects...
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Superman's Loneliness
UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A man and his wife suffer unde...
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Vice Hustler
An undercover cop cruises the streets of Hollywood looking for girls to pimp out....
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