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Insider's perspective makes this one worth watching.
Added 7/28/2009
Dogtown and Z-Boys (Stacy Peralta, 2001)
Dogtown and Z-Boys suffers from one of those names that screams "amateur filmmaker" to you. But when the amateur filmmaker is documenting a moment in history for which he was actually involved, he can be forgiven. Stacy Peralta was one of the members of the Zephyr skating team, the subject of the film, and Dogtown and Z-Boys was his attempt to document the time when skateboarding went from being something that amused junior high school kids with too much time on their hands to being a serious sport. The problem, of course, being that the natures of the members of the Zephyr team, not to mention its co-founders, wasn't exactly germane to the codification of, well, anything.
Los Angeles in the early seventies: poor, territorial surfers with a lot of time on their hands discover skateboards. Previously considered toys, skateboards seemed a natural extension of the surfers' ethic; an oblong board with which one could perform. The skateboard companies were in the midst of attempting to get skateboarding noticed and televised; teams were put together for competition purposes. Two surf shop owners decide to put together a team from the anarchic, dysfunctional Dogtown scene (of which film narrator Sean Penn was a minor member himself). The Dogtown kids, who eventually became known as the Z-Boys, stood in opposition in every way to the clean-cut teams of skateboarders usually seen in competitions--not only in their style (considered outrageous at the time, now almost stereotypical in period movies and the like of the "seventies style"), but also in their ability. No one had ever considered doing things on skateboards that these kids were doing. They soon rocketed to the top of their game, but almost inevitably, the fame exacerbated existing problems, and everything exploded.
Peralta takes a straightforward, if understandably biased, approach to the subject matter, and his intimate knowledge of both the events and the motivations, stuff that no one outside the crew would have had access to, makes this a fascinating story, even for those of us who were never interested in skateboard culture. (I was a little punk like everyone else, but I barely have enough balance to ride a bike. Skateboard? Not on your life.) I don't think it even matters if you have any idea that Dogtown is a slang term for a part of LA, or who the Z-Boys were; you'll like this. ****
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Case Was Broken
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The case for his CD was badly crushed and broken when it arrived. Fortuneately the DVD was not damaged.
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I'm not even a skater
Added 11/28/2008
I don't skate, but this documentary captures the legendary glory days of skating, tearing all the rock and sunshine right out there to tell you the tale of pavement kings and queens. This is what we all wish we could do, and it's told in such a way that you can literally feel the vibe of history. Today it might not be much, everyone's skating everywhere and jumping off anything, but these guys would break the boards and tape them back together just to get another mile or so out of it. Maybe it was bound to happen sometime, but I'm glad skateboarding isn't still a trendy fad of careful padding and careful downhill riding. These people broke the mold, and I'm in awe. It's a great documentary experience.
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"Dogtown and Z-Boys" is a documentary on the Z-Boys of Venice, California from the tough Dogtown neighborhood.
The Z-Boys aka the Zephyr team literally revolutionized skateboarding with an aggressive in-your-face style that shredded the competition.
Growing up in the 1970's, the documentary is blessed with old school footage (that is great quality compared to many surfing films that came out in the early 90's) that I just kept repeating... "sick".
The documentary shows the kids skating as well as a few classic clips of other competitors of skateboarding in the 50's and 60's and how the Z-Boys just came in and shattered the image of what skateboarding was all about with their freestyle surfing way on a skateboard.
Also, footage of the group skating in emptied pools brought upon the California drought.
Also, how the friends became rivals as skateboard manufacturers started to offer contracts and get a hold of a Z-Boy and make money off them.
Naturally, the talents of the kids of that time earned them great money but not all were able to overcome the limelight that introduced a few to drugs and hard tmes.
From the awesome freestyle of Jay Adams, the competitor and uber talented Tony Alva (aka godfather of skateboarding) and talented Stacy Peralta (who gone on to create Powell-Peralta Skateboards, the Bones Brigade which led to some guy named Tony Hawk), we are reminded of what these three and other members of the Zephyr team brought to skateboarding.
My favorite part of the film which I can't stop watching is the 1975 Del Mar Invitational where people saw the Zephyr team debut and saw a new style that no one has seen before. What makes it even more exciting was the footage of the skateboarding competitiors of that time and then the entrance of the Zephyr team and seeing how the competitors were frustrated by the Zephyr team.
That was a definite, classic moment in my opinion from yesteryear and to see the footage today is just incredible.
As for the video quality of this documentary, it was expected that certain footage (being very old) would be grainy and we would see some artifacts but a lot of those messes were cleaned up and look great on this DVD.
As for the DVD, this is the second release of the DVD (Deluxe Edition) which features a sneak peak at the theatrical release of "Lords of Dogtown", two webisodes of "Lords of Dogtown", "Alternate Ending", Director and Editor commentary and extended raw footage.
Footage includes Stacy Peralta visiting the original Zephyr store owner Jeff Ho shaping some surfboards in Hawaii and even Stacy Peralta and film crew skateboarding at an old Z-Boy hangout/skateboard spot.
Awesome footage of the group and competitions combined with a cool soundtrack, cool interviews of most of Zephyr team and a lot of cool, in-depth information of the past and what happened to the members of the team now.
Suffice to say that this film has done really well on the film festival circuit especially at Sundance and AFI and Stacey Peralta continues to show his talent as a director.
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Insider's perspective makes this one worth watching.
Added 7/28/2009
Dogtown and Z-Boys (Stacy Peralta, 2001)
Dogtown and Z-Boys suffers from one of those names that screams "amateur filmmaker" to you. But when the amateur filmmaker is documenting a moment in history for which he was actually involved, he can be forgiven. Stacy Peralta was one of the members of the Zephyr skating team, the subject of the film, and Dogtown and Z-Boys was his attempt to document the time when skateboarding went from being something that amused junior high school kids with too much time on their hands to being a serious sport. The problem, of course, being that the natures of the members of the Zephyr team, not to mention its co-founders, wasn't exactly germane to the codification of, well, anything.
Los Angeles in the early seventies: poor, territorial surfers with a lot of time on their hands discover skateboards. Previously considered toys, skateboards seemed a natural extension of the surfers' ethic; an oblong board with which one could perform. The skateboard companies were in the midst of attempting to get skateboarding noticed and televised; teams were put together for competition purposes. Two surf shop owners decide to put together a team from the anarchic, dysfunctional Dogtown scene (of which film narrator Sean Penn was a minor member himself). The Dogtown kids, who eventually became known as the Z-Boys, stood in opposition in every way to the clean-cut teams of skateboarders usually seen in competitions--not only in their style (considered outrageous at the time, now almost stereotypical in period movies and the like of the "seventies style"), but also in their ability. No one had ever considered doing things on skateboards that these kids were doing. They soon rocketed to the top of their game, but almost inevitably, the fame exacerbated existing problems, and everything exploded.
Peralta takes a straightforward, if understandably biased, approach to the subject matter, and his intimate knowledge of both the events and the motivations, stuff that no one outside the crew would have had access to, makes this a fascinating story, even for those of us who were never interested in skateboard culture. (I was a little punk like everyone else, but I barely have enough balance to ride a bike. Skateboard? Not on your life.) I don't think it even matters if you have any idea that Dogtown is a slang term for a part of LA, or who the Z-Boys were; you'll like this. ****
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Case Was Broken
Added 1/31/2009
The case for his CD was badly crushed and broken when it arrived. Fortuneately the DVD was not damaged.
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