Penelope Spheeris Movies
- 1991
Lifers Group – World Tour: Rahway Prison, That's It
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A short documentary accompanying the first EP released by Lifers Group, a rap crew that grew out of the Lifers Group Juvenile Awareness Program...
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- 1975
Sick
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Albert Brooks is sick and stuck in bed. Saturday Night Live, Season 1 Episode 7
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- 1969
Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales
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A white man goes on trial for having raped a black woman.
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- 1975
Upcoming Season
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Super mid-season replacements to failed shows in a network's super season. Saturday Night Live, Season 1 Episode 4
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- 1991
Visitors from the Unknown
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A look at the Travis Walton abduction
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- 1972
Hats Off to Hollywood
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Picking up the story first presented in I Don’t Know (1970), Hats Off to Hollywood (1972) brazenly and brilliantly mixes documentary reality...
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- 1975
The Impossible Truth
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Albert Brooks presents a mockumentary in which he presents several shocking news stories. Saturday Night Live, Season 1 Episode 1
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- 1999
N.Y.H.C.
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N.Y.H.C. is the first feature-length documentary to explore the New York Harcore music scene. Drawings its roots from punk rock, hardcore evolved...
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- 2001
We Sold Our Souls for Rock 'n Roll
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Penelope Spheeris presents an amazing chronicle of the travelling musical carnival known as OZZfest, the most successful summer concert tour for the...
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- 1969
Bath
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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...
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- 1968
Boy and Crows
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An early short film by Penelope Spheeris about a boy enjoying the age-old pleasures of making a wish on a dandelion. Preserved by the Academy Film...
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- 1969
Shit
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An unfinished archival short, in which the titular substance plays a key role in determining an outmoded man’s role in a changing society.
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- 1968
Synthesis
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Synthesis is director Penelope Spheeris' first film, made in 8mm Kodachrome while she was a student at UCLA. In a seemingly near-future control room...
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- 1990
Banned in the USA
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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...
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- 1969
The National Rehabilitation Center
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Two years before Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park (1971), director Penelope Spheeris takes the McCarran Act to its inevitable next step and shows...
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- 1998
No Use Walkin' When You Can Stroll
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One-time carny, bartender, and married 10 times, director Penelope Spheeris’ mother was an uncommon woman. In this sweet, funny, and moving...
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