The Decline of Western Civilization Collection

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Call Number: Blu-ray 781.66 De, Adult Blu-ray / Nonfiction / Performing Arts / Decline of Western Civilization
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Disc 1. Bonus features: Optional audio commentary with Penelope Spheeris and Anna Fox; optional audio commentary with Dave Grohl; Never-before-seen footage: X signs contract; Tour of the Masque; Never-before-seen performances by Fear, Germs; additional extras: Henry Rollins interviews Spheeris; extended interviews with Black Flag, Darby's Apartment, X, Brendan Mullen, Nicole (Germs manager), Light Bulb Kids.
Disc 2. Bonus features: Optional commentary with Penelope Spheeris & Nadir D'Priest; extended interviews with: Aerosmith; Alice Cooper, Chris Holmes; Gene Simmons; Lemmy; Ozzy Ozbourne; Paul Stanley.
Disc 3. Bonus features: extended interviews with Flea, Keith Morris, Leonard Phillips (The Dickies), Rick Wilder (The Mau-Maus), Light Bulb Kids; additional extras: Behind the scenes, Gutterpunks, LA County Museum of Art panel: Decline 1 and III; premiere/movie introduction; Sundance interview with Spheeris.
Disc 4 (Bonus disc): Additional Decline II extended interviews: London; Megadeth, Odin, Poison, Gazzarri, Mega Crowd 87; Decline I news report; Decline II cruising the Strip; Decline II LA County Museum art panel; Decline III panel; Tawn Mastrey interviews Penelope Spheeris; Mark Toscano interviews Penelope Spheeris; Nadir and Lizzie; theatrical trailer Suburbia; extras' credits.
Special features: New 2K scan of each film supervised by director; Commentary; Interview; Never-before-seen original footage, performances and interviews; Theatrical trailers ...
Disc 1. The decline of western civilization [part 1], 1981, 100 min.) / Spheeris Films, Inc. -- disc 2. The decline of western civilization: Part 2, the metal years (1988, 93 min.) / New Line Cinema presents an I.R.S. World Media production ; directed by Penelope Spheeris -- disc 3. The decline of western civilization, part 3 (1998, 86 min.) / Spheeris Films, Inc. -- disc 4. Bonus disc.
Disc 1. Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, X.
Disc 2. Steven Tyler, Joe Perry (Aerosmith); Alice Cooper; Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley (KISS); Lemmy (Motorhead); Ozzy Ozbourne; Bobby Dall, C.C. DeVille, Bret Michaels, Rikki Rockett (Poison); performances by Faster Pussycat; Lizzy Borden; London; Odin; Seduce; Megadeth.
Disc 3. Final Conflict, Litmus Green, Naked Aggression, The Resistance.
These legendary documentaries have only been released on VHS until now. Penelope Spheeris' Decline of Western Civilization was perceived as shocking and outrageous at the time of its original release in 1981. Parts II and III were no less extraordinary and unprecedented. Today, museums and educational institutions around the world present them as historically significant works of art. Featuring some of the most influential and innovative musicians and groups of all time-Germs, Black Flag, X, Fear, Circle Jerks, Alice Cooper, Lemmy, Poison and members of Aerosmith and KISS-these riveting, unflinching, hard-core films adeptly captured the spirit of a major cultural phenomenon.
All discs: Blu-ray NTSC, region A.
DIsc 1: Full frame, DTS-HD Master Audio Mono, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1; Disc 2, 3 and Bonus disc: 1.78:1 Widescreen, DTS-HD Master Audio Mono, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1.

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