Film features Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, Slayer and others
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles will be hosting a screening of the unreleased late ‘90s Sundance gem We Sold Our Souls for Rock ‘n Roll on Friday, August 18th at 7:30 pm in the David Geffen Theater. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with film director Penelope Spheeris (Wayne’s World, The Decline of Western Civilization).
Spheeris returns to the world of loud guitars and louder personalities with this documentary, which was produced by Sharon Osbourne. Following 1999’s edition of Ozzfest, the nomadic metal festival founded and headlined by singer and heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne, Spheeris captures blistering, sweat-drenched sets from future multi-platinum megastars System of a Down, Slipknot, and Godsmack at their nu-metal infancy alongside heavy metal royalty Osbourne, Black Sabbath, and Slayer.
Tickets are available through the Academy Museum’s website.
The screening is part of the Academy Museum’s Summer of Music: Concert Films 1959–2020, their first-ever retrospective of musical spectacles with the high-wire immediacy of documentary. Spanning seven decades and several continents, genres, styles, and locations, Summer of Music ranges from dizzyingly eclectic festival bills to immersive single artist showcases, from crowd-pleasing classics to deep-cut discoveries. The series kicked off in June with 1950’s Jazz on a Summer’s Day and concludes August 26th with Metallica: Through the Never in 3D.
