
December 2, 1945 · 80 years old
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 grossi…

Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show.

Alfalfa is wooing Darla and his "He-Man-Woman-Hating" friends attempt to sabotage the relationship.

A gubernatorial candidate hires a wormy special assistant whose only job is to make sure the candidate's well-meaning but incompetent brother doesn't ruin the election.

Mild-mannered, but dirt poor hill dweller Jed Clampett strikes it rich when oil is discovered on his property. At his cousin Pearl's insistence, he moves the family to Beverly Hills to better enjoy his newfound wealth.

A student gets his senses enhanced by an experimental drug. But abuse is not an option.

A look into the Los Angeles punk rock scene, that was largely ignored by the rock music press of the time.

Documentary showcase, what life was like for the music artists living during the Los Angeles Heavy Metal scene in the mid and late 1980s.

A film crew sets out to record a year in the life of an average family, but things quickly start going wrong.

Roy and Bo leave their small California town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to Los Angeles. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trail of bodies behind them. The violence escalates throughout.

The story of Z Channel, one of the first U.S. pay cable stations and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974 in LA, their eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power of cable television.

Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with over 175 movie clips from 1896 ...