Dogtown and Z-Boys [Blu-ray]
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Product Description
Narrated by SEAN PENN and featuring old-school skating footage, a blistering soundtrack and riveting interviews with skateboarding icons TONY ALVA, JAY ADAMS and TONY HAWK, this award-winning documentary is a historic, no-holds-barred, behind-the-scenes look at the birth of a cultural phenomenon, and the inspiration for the thrilling feature film LORDS OF DOGTOWN. Meet the Z-Boys - a group of brash street kids from Venice, California's tough Dogtown neighborhood who revolutionized skateboarding with an aggressive in-your-face style that shredded the competition and totally influenced today's extreme sports.
--Fionn Meade 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. 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). vertical) skateboarding and punk rock abandon. 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. 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.
Product Info
- Actor
- Sean Penn, Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Jeff Ament, Bob Biniak
- Aspect Ratio
- 1.33:1
- Audience Rating
- Binding
- Blu-ray
- Brand
- Sony
- Creator
- Glen E. Friedman, Stacy Peralta, Agi Orsi, Christine Triano, Daniel Ostroff, Debra MacCulloch, Craig Stecyk
- Director
- Stacy Peralta
- EAN
- 0043396333550
- Format
- AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, Subtitled
- Label
- Sony Pictures
- Manufacturer
- Sony Pictures
- MPN
- 043396333550
- Number Of Discs
- 1
- Original Release Date
- 2001-01-01
- Package Quantity
- 1
- Product Group
- DVD
- Product Type Name
- ABIS_DVD
- Publisher
- Sony Pictures
- Release Date
- 2010-01-05
- Running Time
- 91
- Studio
- Sony Pictures
- Theatrical Release Date
- 2001
- Title
- Dogtown and Z-Boys [Blu-ray]
- UPC
- 043396333550
- ASIN
- B002STN6DO
- Sales Rank
- 43709
- Provider
- Amazon
- As of
- February 10, 2012, 4:51 am
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