Dogtown and Z-Boys (Deluxe Edition)
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Actor: Bob Biniak, Paul Constantineau, Skip Engblom, Tony Alva, Tony FriedkinBrand: Team Marketing
Primary Contributor: Penn, Sean
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.0; French (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-03
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
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Movie Reviews of Dogtown and Z-Boys (Deluxe Edition)
Movie Review: Insider's perspective makes this one worth watching.
Summary: 4 Stars
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. ****
Summary of Dogtown and Z-Boys (Deluxe Edition)
The Dogtown and Z-Boys skateboarding video chronicles the overnight impact of the Zephyr team on skateboarding in the early 1970's and the eventual collapse of the team later in the same decade. This video is directed and co-written by skateboard legend-turned-filmmaker Stacy Peralta and narrated by actor Sean Penn. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.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
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