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DVD Dogtown and Z-Boys (Deluxe Edition)
In the early 1970s, a group of young surfers from a tough neighborhood south of Santa Monica took up skateboards and offhandedly changed the world. At least it appears so after watching Dogtown and Z-Boys, a documentary about how twelve "Z-Boys" (including one girl) resuscitated a dead sport and created a lifestyle that spread infectiously to become a worldwide counterculture phenomenon, namely high-flying "vert" (i.e. vertical) skateboarding and punk rock abandon. Director Stacy Peralta, one of the original Z-Boys, and Craig Steyck, the photographer whose publicity first made them famous, would have you believe that with empty pools as their springboard, the clan single-handedly carved a niche that grew into what is now referred to as "extreme sports" (snowboarding seems particularly implicated). Degrees of accuracy aside, the hoard of original footage Peralta and Steyck have access to makes for an engaging portrait of "accidental revolutionaries" whose mythology as expressed by themselves (all but one of the original crew give extensive interviews) and those they influenced (including Henry Rollins, Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam, and Sean Penn, who narrates) is far more entertaining than any evenhanded version could ever hope to be. --Fionn Meade
Review(s): DVD Dogtown and Z-Boys (Deluxe Edition)
Skateboarding's inovative pioneers.
Great story.Fun & entertaining visually.From the gritty white slum to the pools,skate parks & contests where they turned the skate world on it's head.These kids were the true pioneers & inovators of modern skateboarding.Forget the "Hollyweird" version, this is the real deal!
a film about losers
Two or three skateboarders become famous performing tricks like trained seals while two or three thousand skateboarders turn to drugs and alcohol to combat their depression of not accomplishing a damn thing in life. This movie glorifies individuals whose only contribution in life is standing on top of a piece of wood with wheels. Wow. They are so radical and cool. I wanna just quit work, get myself a piece of wood with wheels, and spend the rest of my adult life in Venice Beach somewhere gliding up and down the boardwalk looking for that big break, like an ankle or arm or hip or, if I'm really lucky, my neck. Surf's up, dude!
Dude!...Totally Skate-Worthy
Anyone who's wondered why the big deal when they witness a blazing 1020 off the vert ramp NEEDS to see this documentary. It's a historically accurate and lovingly told story of the roots of X-Games culture, the people who made it popular through well-done photography and artistic design, and the riders who made it their own Too-Cool lifestyle. Blow off the movie version & stick to the documentary. Very well done and worth the money.
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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Lords of Dogtown captures the sheer kinetic joy of skateboarding like no other movie (except, perhaps, Dogtown and Z Boys, a documentary about the very skateboarders this movie depicts). Set in the mid-1970s in Venice, CA--a.k.a. Dogtown--the movie starts with three young aspiring surfers turned skateboarders: Stacy (John Robinson, Elephant), Jay (Emile Hirsch, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys), and Tony (Victor Rasuk, Raising Victor Vargas). When alpha-stoner Skip (Heath Ledger, A Knight's Tale) recognizes the potential of skateboarding as a new sport, his surf shop becomes the center of the boys' universe. They swiftly rise as skateboarding stars and find their brotherhood threatened by sex, money, fame, and ego--it's a common enough story, but... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Emile Hirsch - Victor Rasuk - Heath Ledger Director(s): Catherine Hardwicke DVD Release Date: Released the 27 September 2005 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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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 KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Michael Hynson - Robert August Director(s): Bruce Brown DVD Release Date: Released the 23 May 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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