Self
Esta investigación explora cómo el diseño de las tomas cinematográficas puede contribuir al abuso y agresión sexual, así como a la discriminación laboral que enfrentan las mujeres en la industria del cine.
Self
The greatest cult horror and science fiction films of all-time are studied in vivid detail in the second volume of Time Warp. Includes groundbreaking classics like "Night of the Living Dead," and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and sci-fi gems such as "Blade Runner," and "A Clockwork Orange."
Self
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.
Self
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.
Herself
At a pivotal moment for gender equality in Hollywood, successful women directors tell the stories of their art, lives and careers. Having endured a long history of systemic discrimination, women filmmakers may be getting the first glimpse of a future that values their voices equally.
Director
A pretty psychiatrist is saved from an accident by a man who, after hitting his head on a rock, believes he is Santa Claus. As she nurses him back to health at her institute, he brings the spirit of Christmas to the hospital.
Self - Filmmaker
Una crónica de la larga carrera del cineasta estadounidense Roger Corman, el más tenaz e ingenioso productor y director de bajo presupuesto de la industria cinematográfica de los Estados Unidos, pionero del cine independiente y descubridor de nuevos talentos.
Director
Una antología de cinco cortometrajes que exploran el impacto del cáncer de mama en la vida de las personas.
Director
Ben's fiancée has her heart set on an expensive dream wedding, but her father, Jack, has secretly gambled away all his money. When Ben discovers he has a talent for exotic dancing, Jack pushes him to moonlight as a stripper to finance the wedding.
Herself
The story of American film criticism.
Herself
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.
Producer
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.
Director
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.
Self
A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974, the LA-based channel's eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power of cable television.
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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. But when Enron files for bankruptcy, Cruver discovers he's just a pawn in a failing game of corporate greed--one that made the rich richer...while the rest lost everything.
Director
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. Complete access to incredible material sends this documentary film into the realm of pure entertainment. Unforgettable moments from zealous religious protesters, outrageous fans and the guys (and girls) backstage provide an insightful view into the soul of white, middle-class America. A stunning and sometimes disturbing glimpse of a cultural movement, this film is sure to be a reference for historians for decades to come. This comment on Middle America skates the line between your worst nightmare and the best time you’ve ever had. Features interviews with, and performances by BLACK SABBATH, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, SLIPKNOT, PRIMUS, ROB ZOMBIE, GODSMACK and more.
Director
Documents the making of BLOOD DOLLS, interviewing members of the cast and crew.
Director
One-time carny, bartender, and married 10 times, director Penelope Spheeris’ mother was an uncommon woman. In this sweet, funny, and moving video portrait, Spheeris gives us a vivid glimpse into the richness of her mother’s life and character. 35mm, color, 11 min. Director: Penelope Spheeris. 1998.
Director
Darryl Witherspoon es un joven estudiante de economía en bancarrota que necesita conseguir dinero de forma rápida. Con este objetivo, el joven decide participar en un experimento y probar un nuevo fármaco a cambio de dinero, sin calcular las sorprendentes transformaciones que el medicamento provocará en su cuerpo
Director
The Decline of Western Civilization III is a 1998 documentary film directed by Penelope Spheeris that chronicles the 'gutter punk' lifestyle of homeless teens in Los Angeles.
Director
El cómico Chris Farley interpreta al hermano menor -la oveja negra de la familia- que intenta ayudar a que su hermano (Tim Matheson) en la carrera como gobernador al estado de Washington. Su voluntad de ayudarle es buena, pero sus resultados son bastante desastrosos... Una comedia que obtuvo un notable éxito en Estados Unidos.
Screenplay
Spanky y los miembros del "Club de machotes odia-mujeres" se reúnen. Alfalfa se ha enamorado de Darla, amenazando la existencia del gran club “solo para chicos”. Futuros problemas se avecinarán cuando destruyen su centro de operaciones, y los matones del barrio roban su coche, "The Blur". ¿Cómo podrán ganar la carrera y el gran trofeo? Además de esta serie de infortunios aparece un nuevo chico en el barrio, Waldo, que es un refinado niño rico, interesado también en Darla. A través de las travesuras y el jaleo, trucos e ingenuidad, los pillos aprenderán el valor de la verdadera amistad… e incluso el gusto por las chicas.
Director
Spanky y los miembros del "Club de machotes odia-mujeres" se reúnen. Alfalfa se ha enamorado de Darla, amenazando la existencia del gran club “solo para chicos”. Futuros problemas se avecinarán cuando destruyen su centro de operaciones, y los matones del barrio roban su coche, "The Blur". ¿Cómo podrán ganar la carrera y el gran trofeo? Además de esta serie de infortunios aparece un nuevo chico en el barrio, Waldo, que es un refinado niño rico, interesado también en Darla. A través de las travesuras y el jaleo, trucos e ingenuidad, los pillos aprenderán el valor de la verdadera amistad… e incluso el gusto por las chicas.
Producer
Jed Clampett y su familia se mudan a Beberly Hills tras convertirse en millonarios, después de encontrar petróleo en sus tierras, eso sí, sin abandonar sus costumbres y modales.
Director
Jed Clampett y su familia se mudan a Beberly Hills tras convertirse en millonarios, después de encontrar petróleo en sus tierras, eso sí, sin abandonar sus costumbres y modales.
Director
Cuando un importante ejecutivo de la televisión ofrece a los alocados y poco convencionales Wayne y a Garth un jugoso contrato para hacer en su cadena su peculiar show nocturno, ambos no pueden dar crédito a su suerte. Pero el camino hacia el éxito es muy tortuoso, está lleno de peligros, tentaciones y fiestas salvajes. ¿Podrá Wayne ganar el cariño de la diosa del rock Cassandra? ¿Será Garth capaz de “mojar” con la chica de sus sueños en la tienda de donuts?
Director
Documentery from 1991 where The 2 Live Crew, Chuck D (Public Enemy), Too Short, Ice-T, Geto Boys, H.W.A. drop real talk on different topics.
Director
A look at the Travis Walton abduction
Director
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.
Director
Three novels - three dramatic stories in the walls of the women's prison. The first story - a brand new, first went to prison inmates. The second - about a mother whose son has ceased to go to prison for visits. The third - about the experiences of women on the eve of its release.
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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 that ultimately resulted in the "PARENTAL ADVISORY EXPLICIT CONTENT" sticker. This 49-minute documentary was directed by Penelope Spheeris.
Nicky's Mom
A couple who both work at wedding receptions encounter complications when they decide to marry.
Herself
An entertaining combination of heavy-metal rockers and female mud wrestlers hosted by Jessica Hahn.
Director
An entertaining combination of heavy-metal rockers and female mud wrestlers hosted by Jessica Hahn.
Herself
Interviews with personalities including John Mellencamp, Spike Lee, Lou Reed, Roseanne Barr, David Byrne, George Michael and more, as they reflect on the 1980s.
Self
Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.
Director
Una exploración de la escena del heavy metal en Los Ángeles, con especial énfasis en el glam metal. Presenta imágenes de conciertos y entrevistas de legendarias bandas y artistas de heavy metal y hard rock como Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Megadeth, Motörhead, Ozzy Osbourne y W.A.S.P ..
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Dos punks de la gran ciudad viajan a través del país en un Volkswagen para vengarse de un grupo de campesinos que asesinaron a su amigo. En el camino, abrazan los valores occidentales y ayudan a una joven que es dueña de un servicio de demolición.
Screenplay
El director del campamento es brutalmente asesinado por los chicos que han ido pasar sus vaciones de verano a él. Han encerrado a los que se han opuesto y han tomado el control salvajemente del lugar.
Director
Historia sobre dos adolescentes que narra como despues del último dia de instituto y resignados a llevar una vida monótona trabajando en la fábrica del pueblo, ponen rumbo a Los Angeles para olvidar penas y pasar un fin de semana inolvidable. Sin embargo, el difícil carácter de los jóvenes convertirá la aventura en un reguero de sangre sin sentido y la violencia se apoderará de ellos...
Director
Una madre va a Hollywood para encontrar a su hija fugitiva. Ella descubre que la niña se ha involucrado en la industria de la pornografía y acude a la policía para obtener ayuda para encontrarla.
Screenplay
En esta historia sobre la marginación, sobre la exclusión social, se nos muestra la vida de una pandilla de jóvenes punkys inadaptados. Con el uso abusivo de drogas, la violencia excesiva y el alejamiento familiar, se construye una dura historia en donde no tienen cabida prejuicios morales. Destacar la actuación de Bill Coyne en el papel de Evan, uno de los líderes de la banda aquejado de todos los traumas posibles.
Director
En esta historia sobre la marginación, sobre la exclusión social, se nos muestra la vida de una pandilla de jóvenes punkys inadaptados. Con el uso abusivo de drogas, la violencia excesiva y el alejamiento familiar, se construye una dura historia en donde no tienen cabida prejuicios morales. Destacar la actuación de Bill Coyne en el papel de Evan, uno de los líderes de la banda aquejado de todos los traumas posibles.
Producer
La escena de la música punk de Los Ángeles alrededor de 1980 es el tema central de esta película. Con Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.
Writer
La escena de la música punk de Los Ángeles alrededor de 1980 es el tema central de esta película. Con Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.
Director
La escena de la música punk de Los Ángeles alrededor de 1980 es el tema central de esta película. Con Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.
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Albert Brooks se interpreta a sí mismo como un egocéntrico humorista que ha decidido hacer un documental. Basándose en las clásicas series documentales en las que se filma a una familia típica durante un día, Brooks se decide por la familia Yeager.
Producer
Albert Brooks goes to a research institute to find out why people don't like him and how he can change that. Saturday Night Live, Season 1 Episode 9
Producer
Albert Brooks is sick and stuck in bed.
Saturday Night Live, Season 1 Episode 7
Producer
Super mid-season replacements to failed shows in a network's super season.
Saturday Night Live, Season 1 Episode 4
Producer
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. Saturday Night Live, Season 1 Episode 3
Producer
Albert Brooks introduces himself to the audience through showing them his home movies from childhood & attempts and fails at doing candid-camera style pranks. Saturday Night Live, Season 1 Episode 2
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Albert Brooks presents a mockumentary in which he presents several shocking news stories. Saturday Night Live, Season 1 Episode 1
Margo, Logan's Film Group
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. 'Based' on a song by Leonard Cohen.
Penny
Set in Los Angeles, Brothers tells the story of Vince, a brooding, mustachioed stud who’s visited by his kid brother Rick, a soldier serving in Vietnam. During Rick’s stay, the two siblings slowly confront their mutually hidden desires.
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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 with fully staged recreations/reimaginings of episodes in the lives of Jennifer and Dana, a loving, bickering couple who challenge the notion of homonormativity. Drugs, poverty, disease, bigotry and prostitution all figure into this disarmingly candid and often hilarious film, a remarkable work that is the apotheosis of director Spheeris’ early work, and a luminous signpost leading directly to The Decline of Western Civilization (1979-1997).
Writer
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. This nonfiction film – an unusual, partly staged work of semi-verité – is the first of Spheeris’s films to fully embrace what would become her characteristic documentary style: probing, intimate, uncompromising.
Director
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. This nonfiction film – an unusual, partly staged work of semi-verité – is the first of Spheeris’s films to fully embrace what would become her characteristic documentary style: probing, intimate, uncompromising.
Star the Witch
A ski instructor tries to teach a bunch of insanely eccentric people how to ski while dealing with everyone wanting his attention.
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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 us—via an early use of mockumentary—what the U.S. might be like if potential subversives were simply locked up en masse before they had a chance to subvert anything. 16mm, color, 12 min. Director: Penelope Spheeris.1969.
Director
Shit (1969) Never completely finished during its original production, this snarky comic piece was rediscovered in director Penelope Spheeris’ vaults in 2010 and preserved “as is.” The titular substance plays a key role in determining an outmoded man’s role in a changing society. 16mm, color, 4 min. Director: Penelope Spheeris. 1969.
Director
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. The appearance of Spheeris’ credit at the beginning of the film seems to ask the question: how does voyeurism change when we know the voyeur is actually a voyeuse? 16mm, b/w, 6 min. Director: Penelope Spheeris.
Director
A white man goes on trial for having raped a black woman.
Director
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 devoid of people, various readouts and calculations suggest that humankind is not altogether compatible with the grand scheme of the universe. 1968. Color.
Director
An early short film by Penelope Spheeris about a boy enjoying the age-old pleasures of making a wish on a dandelion.
