Riding Giants [Blu-ray]
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Product Description
Breakingthe mold of traditional documentary filmmaking, Riding Giants uses its dynamic, cross-generational approach to profile the lives and times of the intrepid surfers who over the decades have dedicated themselves to finding and successfully challenging the biggest waves on earth. And finally Hawaii's Laird Hamilton, the prototypical "extreme" surfer, a rare breed of athlete/innovator considered as the best big wave rider who ever waxed a board. Through a fast-paced combination of mediums that include classic archival photography, spectacular movie footage - both current and vintage - and contemporary interviews with the sport's greatest surfers, experts and storytellers, Riding Giants captures the rich visual history of one of the most dramatic athletic adventures of our time. We meet Greg Noll, the pioneer, whose relentless push into Hawaii's big surf in the late 1950s earned him the nickname "The Bull." There's Jeff Clark, Northern California's lone frontiersman, who, after discovering the massive waves of Maverick's near San Francisco, rode there alone for over a decade. -- Sam George, Global Editor SURFER Magazine From acclaimed director Stacy Peralta comes Riding Giants, the story of big wave surfing.
Riding Giants is more than another blissfulsurfing 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. --Tom Keogh Stills from Riding Giants (Click for larger image) Great material, too, about the deadly wonders of surfing Mavericks, California, where the rocks will get one if the violent tides don't. 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 through the memories of surf legend Greg Noll.
Features
AC-3; Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; Subtitled; Widescreen; Format: Blu-ray; Condition: New
Product Info
- Actor
- Laird John Hamilton, Darrick Doerner, Dave Kalama, Jeff Clark, David H. Kalama Jr.
- Aspect Ratio
- 1.85:1
- Audience Rating
- Binding
- Blu-ray
- Brand
- Sony
- Creator
- Laird John Hamilton, Stacy Peralta, Agi Orsi, Franck Marty, Jane Kachmer, Nathalie Delest, Sam George
- Director
- Stacy Peralta
- EAN
- 0043396329614
- EAN List
- EANListElement: 0043396329614
- Format
- AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Label
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Manufacturer
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- MPN
- COLBR32961
- Number Of Discs
- 1
- Original Release Date
- 2004-07-09
- Package Quantity
- 1
- Part Number
- COLBR32961
- Picture Format
- Anamorphic Widescreen
- Product Group
- DVD
- Product Type Name
- ABIS_DVD
- Publisher
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Release Date
- 2010-01-05
- Running Time
- 105
- SKU
- mon0000004727
- Studio
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Theatrical Release Date
- 2004-07-09
- Title
- Riding Giants [Blu-ray]
- UPC
- 043396329614
- UPC List
- UPCListElement: 043396329614
- ASIN
- B002STN6IE
- Sales Rank
- 17600
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