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PENELOPE SPHEERIS: FILMING ROCK & ROLL

Nora Novak·February 5, 2020

Penelope Spheeris jolted the cinema world with her debut feature The Decline of Western Civilization in 1981, a...

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PENELOPE SPHEERIS: FILMING ROCK & ROLL

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ALL THE RAJ: HOW ‘NORWEGIAN WOOD’ UNLEASHED THE ‘INDIAN INVASION’

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