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DVD The Endless Summer
The definitive surf movie, this 1966 documentary by Bruce Brown is beautifully shot and thrilling to see in its portrait of youthful freedom on the world's shores. Brown followed two surfers around the globe in their quest for the perfect wave, finding it eventually on a remote beach far from home. The narration by "Big Kahuna Brown" cuts through the reverence a bit, being cheeky in tone. --Tom Keogh
Excelente pelicula, te sirve para saber el inico del Surf moderno.
The Endless Summer
I received the DVD in record time...my surfing son was thrilled with the movie and I with the reminder.
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The Endless Summer is a legendary surfing film I always wanted to see but didn't get around to seeing until recently. With my background, it may seem kind of odd. I grew up in San Diego, was an avid bodysurfer and a sometimey board surfer and had ample opportunity to see this film when I was a young teen. I don't recall how long this was featured at the Fine Arts Theater in Pacific Beach, but it seems like it was showing there forever. Most of my school friends saw it, but somehow for me I always had something else to do.
Last night, I watched for the first time. I actually expected something different, like a lot more surfing and a lot more huge surf. What I saw is actually kind of a cutesy, sometimes cheesy, very mid-sixties travelogue with surfing as its focus. That's not to say that The Endless Summer is not enjoyable. It does have its moments, but many of those revolve around the filmed interludes in Hawaii and at the Wedge rather than the globe-trotting surfing adventures of Mike and Bob.
My favorite scenes were in Ghana, where the locals took an active interest in what Mike and Bob were doing, in South Africa where the gorgeous scenery coupled with the seemingly limitless and uncrowded beaches make the viewer fantasize about a surf vacation there, and the scenery and surf of New Zealand. What drops a star from a film that is supposed to be about two guys chasing waves and the summer season worldwide is where they didn't go. No Indonesia or mainland Asia, and no South America. Why not?
Above all, this film is a paean to youth, freedom, and wanderlust. I am amazed that some of the people who picked Mike and Bob up while they were hitch-hiking to their next destination decided to just join them for awhile and ultimately drive them to where they were going. At today's gas prices, the prospect makes one shudder.
If you are one with the ocean in your blood, then you will find a world of vicarious thrills when you see The Endless Summer. It may even inspire you to launch a personal quest to surf the best beaches in the world. Things have changed a lot since this was filmed and you may find that once deserted beaches are now teeming with surfers. At any rate, it has surely inspired me to go hit the waves again on my next trip to California.
Twenty-eight years after directing the hit documentary The Endless Summer, Bruce Brown went on a similar quest with two surfers to find the perfect wave. With a bigger budget and more sophistication in the production, this sequel is even more spectacular. What is lost in innocence--which The Endless Summer was rich in--is made up for in stunning looks at pristine beaches on exotic and even unlikely (for example, Alaska) shores. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Patrick O'Connell (III) Director(s): Bruce Brown DVD Release Date: Released the 30 September 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Thanks to Dana Brown's delightful Step Into Liquid, the surfing scene in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, should get a healthy boost. That's because Brown, in the tradition of his father, filmmaker Bruce Brown (The Endless Summer), has captured dazzling images of surfers riding curls in some of the world's most exotic--and sometimes unlikely--places. Besides the action on Lake Michigan, Brown leads us to Costa Rica, where the sport's senior elite (including Summer star Robert August) prove they still have the moves, and Oahu's North Shore, where the legendary Pipeline inspires this quote: "It's so scary, maybe you die a little." Most entertaining is a segment in County Donegal, where the American Malloy brothers startle the locals and meet their Irish counterparts on the grayest... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Dana Brown (II) DVD Release Date: Released the 20 April 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Riding Giants is more than another blissful surfing movie. It's an outstanding documentary about one era in American alternative lifestyles, when surfing was well-suited to a radical culture of social dropouts. Using an amazing array of amateur film clips, shot for the most part in Hawaii and California from the late 1950s and early '60s, director Stacy Peralta traces the rise of surfing's appeal to young men looking to test themselves in an unorthodox (and sexy) milieu--of "living life to the fullest," as former surfer-turned-screenwriter John Milius (Big Wednesday) puts it at one point. Lengthy chapters on the glories of Oahu's Makaha and the "superstition and dread" that accompanied the big-wave challenge of Waimea Bay are riveting and sometimes heroic, particularly told... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Stacy Peralta DVD Release Date: Released the 04 January 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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John Milius charts a decade of social change as three surfing buddies use the sport as a personal touchstone for their lives while growing up in the turbulent 1960s. Irresponsible hot-dogging legend Matt (Jan-Michael Vincent), serious and stable Jack (William Katt), and mad misfit Leroy, a.k.a. "Masochist" (Gary Busey), are teenage surf bums in 1963, living at the beach in a perpetual summer under the sway of surfboard-maker Bear (Sam Melville), guru, mentor, and keeper of the lore. But the times they are a changin' and boys grow up in the shadow of Vietnam while adulthood pushes them into hard decisions. John Milius mixes the nostalgia of American Graffiti with the reverence of a John Ford cavalry drama. Surfing becomes a kind of spiritual quest spoken of in awed mythic tones and... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Jan-Michael Vincent - William Katt - Gary Busey Director(s): John Milius DVD Release Date: Released the 09 July 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I just bought this DVD and am very disappointed. Yes, the soundtrack is good, however the footage is very boring. Some sections of the movie (like the surf session with the old "singlefin green") are nice for the soul content, but the rest is very, very substandard surfing (nothing really amazing on the wave size or on the "gnarliness" of the moves). I haven't watched the bonus video yet, but I don't think it'll be that good to change my rating. If you're looking for soul content, you're much better off buying "Singlefin Yellow". If you want to buy this for the soundtrack, then buy the CD. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Jack Johnson DVD Release Date: Released the 25 November 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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