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Penelope Spheeris. Born in New Orleans, LA, Spheeris was raised in a carnival owned by her father called The Magic Empire Shows. But when she was seven years old, her father was murdered in Alabama while trying to protect a black man. The incident was quickly swept under the rug as a justifiable homicide due to the racial tensions at the time ...
In 1988, Penelope Spheeris released a documentary that the LAPD demanded she not show again in the city of Los Angeles. 40 years later that film is part of a...
28 de sept. de 2021 · Penelope Spheeris sat down to discuss her legendary documentary trilogy The Decline of Western Civilization, which captured life in LA’s punk, metal, and gutter punk scenes.
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.
3 de jul. de 2019 · Spheeris was in her midthirties at the time of the shoot, a decade or more older than most punkers at the time. If her age might’ve marked her an outsider in the milieu she was capturing, she was in other respects its ideal chronicler. Freak shows were in her blood, coming as she did from midway folk. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1945 ...
28 de mar. de 2021 · Penelope Spheeris talks about directing "Decline of Western Civilization," "Suburbia" and "Wayne's World" and working 1980s and '90s.
Penelope Spheeris est indirectement une icône de la scène punk américaine grâce à sa trilogie The Decline of Western Civilization. Elle démarre sa carrière en tant que réalisatrice de productions underground et réussit à se hisser dans le mainstream par accident.
