Movies: Penelope Spheeris

  • 1969
    Shit

    Shit (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. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013....

    Shit
  • 1976
    Audience Research

    Audience Research (1976)

    Audience Research

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    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...

    Audience Research
  • 1975
    The Impossible Truth

    The Impossible Truth (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...

    The Impossible Truth
  • 1991
    Lifers Group ‎– World Tour: Rahway Prison, That's It

    Lifers Group ‎– World Tour: Rahway Prison, That's It (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 — a youth crime prevention program founded in East Jersey State Prison in 1976 and made famous by the docu...

    Lifers Group ‎– World Tour: Rahway Prison, That's It
  • 1972
    Hats Off to Hollywood

    Hats Off to Hollywood (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 with fully staged recreations/reimaginings of episodes in the lives of Jennifer and Dana, a loving, bickering...

    Hats Off to Hollywood
  • 1991
    Rap's Most Wanted

    Rap's Most Wanted (1991)

    Rap's Most Wanted

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    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....

    Rap's Most Wanted
  • 1975
    Upcoming Season

    Upcoming Season (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...

    Upcoming Season
  • 1969
    Bath

    Bath (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 Spheeris produced this intimate and sensual observation of a woman bathing. The appearance of Sphee...

    Bath
  • 1968
    Synthesis

    Synthesis (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 devoid of people, various readouts and calculations suggest that humankind is not altogether compati...

    Synthesis
  • 1969
    Superman's Loneliness

    Superman's Loneliness (1969)

    Superman's Loneliness

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    UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A man and his wife suffer under the monotony of everyday life with work at an insurance company and unhappy marriage....

    Superman's Loneliness
  • 1975
    Open Heart Surgery

    Open Heart Surgery (1975)

    Open Heart Surgery

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    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...

    Open Heart Surgery
  • 1975
    Home Movies & Failed Candid-Camera Stunts

    Home Movies & Failed Candid-Camera Stunts (1975)

    Home Movies & Failed Candid-Camera Stunts

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    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...

    Home Movies & Failed Candid-Camera Stunts
  • 1990
    Banned in the USA

    Banned in the USA (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 that ultimately resulted in the "PARENTAL ADVISORY EXPLICIT CONTENT" sticker. This 49-minute docume...

    Banned in the USA
  • 1999
    Hollywierd

    Hollywierd (1999)

    Hollywierd

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    Documents the making of BLOOD DOLLS, interviewing members of the cast and crew....

    Hollywierd
  • 1968
    Boy and Crows

    Boy and Crows (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 Archive in 2016....

    Boy and Crows
  • 1969
    The National Rehabilitation Center

    The National Rehabilitation Center (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 us—via an early use of mockumentary—what the U.S. might be like if potential subversives were simply locke...

    The National Rehabilitation Center
  • 1969
    Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales

    Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales (1969)

    Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales

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    A white man goes on trial for having raped a black woman....

    Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales