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Hats Off to Hollywood (1972)
Directed by Penelope Spheeris
Documentary · 22m
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 couple who challenge the notion of homonormativity. Drugs, poverty, disease, bigotry and prostitution all figure into this disarmingly candid and often hilarious film, a remarkable work that is the apotheosis of director Spheeris’ early work, and a luminous signpost leading directly to The Decline of Western Civilization (1979-1997). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
Cast
Jimmie Michaels
Crew
- Director
- Penelope Spheeris
- Director of Photography
- Robert Schoeller
Details
- Release date
- 1972-08-26
- Runtime
- 22m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Low Life Productions