Dogtown and Z-Boys starring Sean
Penn, Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Jeff
Ament, Bob Biniak
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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) an d 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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