(Hats Off to Hollywood)

Content: 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.

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Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

22 minutes

Year:

1972

Directors:

Penelope Spheeris

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Production companies:

Low Life Productions

Actors:

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Self

Crews:

Director

Director of Photography

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