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Penelope Spheeris

May 2020

  • Early pioneer … director Dorothy Arzner, left, and Clara Bow, the star of Arzner’s 1929 film The Wild Party.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema review – paean to neglected talent

    Film-maker and historian of the movies Mark Cousins’ 14-hour survey of amazing but overlooked auteurs is a marvel of passionate cinephilia

August 2015

  • Director Penelope Spheeris with Eyeball

    Penelope Spheeris: 'I sold out and took the money'

    She made her millions as the director of Wayne’s World and The Beverly Hillbillies, but the film-maker would rather be remembered for her riot-causing punk series The Decline of Western Civilization

May 2015

  • Penelope Spheeris's film Suburbua

    When rockumentaries get real – starring Metallica, Madonna and Bob Dylan

    With Penelope Spheeris’s landmark Decline of Western Civilization set for a long-overdue DVD release, which other music documentaries have dared to show more grit than glamour?
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