Los Angeles is such a large and sprawling city, it doesn't have a singular identity. As can be seen from the wide variety of movies set here, neighborhoods in the east, south, and west of LA, from the beaches to the vast San Fernando Valley, all have extremely different flavors. LA is a city of transplants and immigrants, and I'm no exception, as I moved here 6.5 years ago from the UK. Most of the best-known LA movies were made by outsiders trying to get to grips with a city that in one sense is dominated by the movie industry but also has a rich cultural life outside of that.
One of the best ways to discover LA is through documentaries, such as "City of Gold" (2015), "Los Angeles Plays Itself" (2003), and "Dogtown and Z-Boys" (2001). Like most people, my perception of LA was entirely built by the movies I watched growing up,...
One of the best ways to discover LA is through documentaries, such as "City of Gold" (2015), "Los Angeles Plays Itself" (2003), and "Dogtown and Z-Boys" (2001). Like most people, my perception of LA was entirely built by the movies I watched growing up,...
- 3/26/2023
- by Fiona Underhill
- Slash Film
A “Lords of Dogtown” series is in the works at IMDb TV, Variety has learned.
The one-hour drama is set in the 1970s skateboarding scene in southern California and centers on a hell-raising teenage girl growing up in the foster care system. She falls in with a crowd of skaters who idolize the famed Zephyr Skateboard Team.
Kat Candler is attache to write and executive produce the project. Shawn Ryan and Marney Hochman will executive produce under their overall deal with Sony Pictures Television, with Catherine Hardwicke also executive producing. Sony Pictures TV will produce.
The Zephyr Skateboard Team helped inspire the skateboard crazy in the U.S. in the 1970s, which was chronicled in the critically acclaimed 2001 documentary feature “Dogtown and Z-Boys.” The doc, which was directed by Zephyr team member Stacy Peralta, then inspired the 2005 feature film “Lords of Dogtown.” Peralta wrote the screenplay for the film with Hardwicke directing.
The one-hour drama is set in the 1970s skateboarding scene in southern California and centers on a hell-raising teenage girl growing up in the foster care system. She falls in with a crowd of skaters who idolize the famed Zephyr Skateboard Team.
Kat Candler is attache to write and executive produce the project. Shawn Ryan and Marney Hochman will executive produce under their overall deal with Sony Pictures Television, with Catherine Hardwicke also executive producing. Sony Pictures TV will produce.
The Zephyr Skateboard Team helped inspire the skateboard crazy in the U.S. in the 1970s, which was chronicled in the critically acclaimed 2001 documentary feature “Dogtown and Z-Boys.” The doc, which was directed by Zephyr team member Stacy Peralta, then inspired the 2005 feature film “Lords of Dogtown.” Peralta wrote the screenplay for the film with Hardwicke directing.
- 1/6/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Functioning in the mode of a lifestyle documentary like Dogtown and Z-Boys, Ben Patterson’s Maddman: The Steve Madden Story tells the sweeping take the shoe impresario, a self-made man who started from the bottom as a shoe salesman, worked his way to the top, fell from grace, and came back leading his Long Island City-based design house. It’s a lively, energetic story that only occasionally veers into that documentary gray area called Branded Content. In the opening random shoppers are asked, “What do you know about Steve Madden?,” and evidently nobody knows much about the man.
Told through interviews with Madden, his brother John, his ex-wife Wendy, and several key employees, many from the old days relay the story of how a fashion brand with one SoHo store grew into a billion dollar business. After a modest success with his signature Marilyn shoe, his company goes public via...
Told through interviews with Madden, his brother John, his ex-wife Wendy, and several key employees, many from the old days relay the story of how a fashion brand with one SoHo store grew into a billion dollar business. After a modest success with his signature Marilyn shoe, his company goes public via...
- 11/22/2017
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Ageing B-boys reminisce in this wry but tender look at how hip-hop culture turned 1980s East Midlands suburbia into beat street
Galvanic subculture gives new lease of life to humdrum / impoverished / politically oppressed locale: a trusty documentary template from Dogtown and Z-Boys to This Ain’t California. Nottingham in the 1980s gets the rad-lift in this sweet but baggy retrospective about how breakdancing briefly turned East Midlands suburbia into beat street. Contextually hazy, it touches on transatlantic black culture, racism and Thatcherite Britain without nailing any of these – nor does it make links to the city’s thriving contemporary hip-hop scene. Where NG83 does score is in wry but tender thumbnail sketches of a handful of ageing B-boys: having tea with their mums, bunkered inside walls of collectibles, or in the tragic case of one, found dead in a park aged 41. As his old lady frets about his drinking and joblessness,...
Galvanic subculture gives new lease of life to humdrum / impoverished / politically oppressed locale: a trusty documentary template from Dogtown and Z-Boys to This Ain’t California. Nottingham in the 1980s gets the rad-lift in this sweet but baggy retrospective about how breakdancing briefly turned East Midlands suburbia into beat street. Contextually hazy, it touches on transatlantic black culture, racism and Thatcherite Britain without nailing any of these – nor does it make links to the city’s thriving contemporary hip-hop scene. Where NG83 does score is in wry but tender thumbnail sketches of a handful of ageing B-boys: having tea with their mums, bunkered inside walls of collectibles, or in the tragic case of one, found dead in a park aged 41. As his old lady frets about his drinking and joblessness,...
- 10/27/2016
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Mark Hartley.s account of the rise and fall of the maverick founders of Cannon Films is getting rave reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Meanwhile Eddie Martin.s documentary on the rise and fall of star skateboarders Tas and Ben Pappas has been hailed by one leading Us critic.
Umbrella Entertainment is planning event screenings of Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, with Q&As hosted by Hartley, at the Dendy Newtown and Cinema Nova Melbourne in October.
Martin.s All This Mayhem, which has just been nominated for best feature doc at the Aacta Awards, has grossed $136,000 since its launch on limited screens in July via eOne.
Variety.s Scott Foundas rated Hartley.s film as .faster, sleeker and more out-of-control (in a good way). than Israeli director Hila Medalia.s The Go-Go Boys, which premiered in Cannes.
Electric Boogaloo .ambles anecdotally through the...
Meanwhile Eddie Martin.s documentary on the rise and fall of star skateboarders Tas and Ben Pappas has been hailed by one leading Us critic.
Umbrella Entertainment is planning event screenings of Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, with Q&As hosted by Hartley, at the Dendy Newtown and Cinema Nova Melbourne in October.
Martin.s All This Mayhem, which has just been nominated for best feature doc at the Aacta Awards, has grossed $136,000 since its launch on limited screens in July via eOne.
Variety.s Scott Foundas rated Hartley.s film as .faster, sleeker and more out-of-control (in a good way). than Israeli director Hila Medalia.s The Go-Go Boys, which premiered in Cannes.
Electric Boogaloo .ambles anecdotally through the...
- 9/10/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Jay Adams, a skateboarding legend who is credited with helping to shape modern skateboarding style, has died. He was 53. The Santa Monica, California, native died Friday in a hospital in Puerto Escondido, in Mexico, where he was on an extended surfing trip, reports the Los Angeles Times. It's believed he died of a heart attack. Adams gained attention in 2001 when he was featured prominently in Dogtown and Z-Boys, an award-winning documentary about Adams and childhood friends Stacy Peralta and Tony Alva. The teenagers formed Z-boys in the '70s in the Dogtown neighborhood of Santa Monica and unwittingly pioneered modern skateboarding,...
- 8/16/2014
- by Kathy Ehrich Dowd, @kathyehrichdowd
- PEOPLE.com
If Shogo Kubo was going to die, dying while doing a sick skateboarding move would have been the best way to go ... so says his former Z-Boy friend and famed filmmaker Stacy Peralta. Peralta tells TMZ Sports he was shocked to hear of Kubo's passing, but that he had not seen his former skateboarding friend in over 20 years ... at the premiere of Peralta's documentary, "Dogtown and Z-Boys.""We were all outsiders, but he was a triple outsider,...
- 6/26/2014
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Shogo Kubo -- the skateboarding legend whose legendary crew was immortalized in the movie "Dogtown and Z-Boys" -- died while paddle boarding by himself in Hawaii on Tuesday ... TMZ Sports has learned. Honolulu Pd tells TMZ Sports ... witnesses noticed the 54-year-old was having problems in the water and several people swam out to bring him into shore. Emergency personnel tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead on the beach. An autopsy will be...
- 6/25/2014
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
What’s new, what’s hot, and what you may have missed, now available to stream.
streaming now, before it’s in theaters
Alan Partridge (aka Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa): comedian Steve Coogan is still, hilariously, the same old awful, insecure jerk, but the media satire that has always revolved around the character is somewhat diminished [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video]
streaming now, before it’s on dvd
The Broken Circle Breakdown: heartbreaking melodrama about married musicians and the impact a sick child has on their relationship [at Amazon Instant Video] Frozen: the showstopping central musical number is a glorious anthem to female power and ability… and so, in fact, is the whole wonderful movie; Disney is finally getting it [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video]
new to Prime
L.A. Confidential: dazzling noir thriller of organized crime, sleazy tabloid journalism, and murder [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video] The Usual Suspects: find out who Keyser Söze is again [at Amazon Instant Video]
new to stream
Dirty Pretty Things: check out Chiwetel Ejiofor...
streaming now, before it’s in theaters
Alan Partridge (aka Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa): comedian Steve Coogan is still, hilariously, the same old awful, insecure jerk, but the media satire that has always revolved around the character is somewhat diminished [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video]
streaming now, before it’s on dvd
The Broken Circle Breakdown: heartbreaking melodrama about married musicians and the impact a sick child has on their relationship [at Amazon Instant Video] Frozen: the showstopping central musical number is a glorious anthem to female power and ability… and so, in fact, is the whole wonderful movie; Disney is finally getting it [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video]
new to Prime
L.A. Confidential: dazzling noir thriller of organized crime, sleazy tabloid journalism, and murder [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video] The Usual Suspects: find out who Keyser Söze is again [at Amazon Instant Video]
new to stream
Dirty Pretty Things: check out Chiwetel Ejiofor...
- 3/5/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Hunger Games DoP Tom Stern and 12 Years a Slave cinematographer Sean Bobbitt among those chosen for jury duty.
The 21st Camerimage, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography (Nov 16-23), has revealed the competition jurors who will judge entries at this year’s event in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Jury members of the main competition jury are:
Tom Stern, cinematographer (Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino, The Hunger Games);Ed Lachman, cinematographer (Erin Brockovich, The Virgin Suicides, I’m Not There);Todd McCarthy, journalist and film critic;Denis Lenoir, cinematographer (Paris, je t’aime, Righteous Kill, 88 Minutes);Adam Holender, cinematographer (Midnight Cowboy, Smoke, Fresh);Timo Salminen, cinematographer (The Man Without a Past, La Havre, The Match Factory Girl);Franz Lustig, cinematographer (Don’t Come Knocking, Land of Plenty, Palermo Shooting);Jeffrey Kimball, cinematographer (Top Gun, Mission: Impossible II, The Expendables).Polish Films Competition
Jost Vacano, the cinematographer behind several Paul Verhoeven films including Total Recall, RoboCop and [link...
The 21st Camerimage, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography (Nov 16-23), has revealed the competition jurors who will judge entries at this year’s event in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Jury members of the main competition jury are:
Tom Stern, cinematographer (Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino, The Hunger Games);Ed Lachman, cinematographer (Erin Brockovich, The Virgin Suicides, I’m Not There);Todd McCarthy, journalist and film critic;Denis Lenoir, cinematographer (Paris, je t’aime, Righteous Kill, 88 Minutes);Adam Holender, cinematographer (Midnight Cowboy, Smoke, Fresh);Timo Salminen, cinematographer (The Man Without a Past, La Havre, The Match Factory Girl);Franz Lustig, cinematographer (Don’t Come Knocking, Land of Plenty, Palermo Shooting);Jeffrey Kimball, cinematographer (Top Gun, Mission: Impossible II, The Expendables).Polish Films Competition
Jost Vacano, the cinematographer behind several Paul Verhoeven films including Total Recall, RoboCop and [link...
- 11/8/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Tiff’s Midnight Madness program turned 25 this year, and for two and half decades, the hardworking programers have gathered some of the strangest, most terrifying, wild, intriguing and downright entertaining films from around the world. From dark comedies to Japanese gore-fests and indie horror gems, the Midnight Madness program hasn’t lost its edge as one the leading showcases of genre cinema. In its 25-year history, Midnight Madness has introduced adventurous late-night moviegoers to such cult faves as Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused and Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs. But what separates Midnight Madness from, say, Montreal’s three and half week long genre festival Fantasia, is that Tiff selects only ten films to make the cut. In other words, these programmers don’t mess around. Last week I decided that I would post reviews of my personal favourite films that screened in past years. And just like the Tiff programmers,...
- 9/18/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Yesterday Entertainment Weekly kicked off the San Diego Comic-Con celebrations by unveiling the first image from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on its cover, showing Spidey (Andrew Garfield) in a stare-off with the villain Electro (Jamie Foxx). Today more images from within that issue have arrived online, including some nice crisp solo shots of both Spider-Man and Electro, as well as one of Peter Parker hanging out in his messy bedroom with the Spidey suit on and the mask off. Hey, is that a Dogtown and Z-Boys movie poster hanging in his room? That's a great skateboard doc if you haven't seen it yet. Anyway, If you look closely you'll spot some clues in there that point toward what's going on in the sequel. We imagine all those photographs pinned up have to do with...
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- 7/11/2013
- by Erik Davis
- Movies.com
Yesterday Entertainment Weekly kicked off the San Diego Comic-Con celebrations by unveiling the first image from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on its cover, showing Spidey (Andrew Garfield) in a stare-off with the villain Electro (Jamie Foxx). Today more images from within that issue have arrived online, including some nice crisp solo shots of both Spider-Man and Electro, as well as one of Peter Parker hanging out in his messy bedroom with the Spidey suit on and the mask off. Hey, is that a Dogtown and Z-Boys movie poster hanging in his room? That's a great skateboard doc if you haven't seen it yet. Anyway, If you look closely you'll spot some clues in there that point toward what's going on in the sequel. We imagine all those photographs pinned up have to do with...
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- 7/11/2013
- by Erik Davis
- Movies.com
Yesterday Entertainment Weekly kicked off the San Diego Comic-Con celebrations by unveiling the first image from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on their cover, showing Spidey (Andrew Garfield) in a stare-off with the villain Electro (Jamie Foxx). Today more images from within that issue have arrived online, including some nice crisp solo shots of both Spider-Man and Electro, as well as one of Peter Parker hanging out in his messy bedroom with the Spidey suit on and the mask off. Hey, is that a Dogtown and Z-Boys movie poster hanging in his room? That's a great skateboard doc if you haven't seen it yet. Anyway, If you look closely you'll spot some clues in there that point toward what's going on in the sequel. We imagine all those photographs pinned up have to do with...
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- 7/11/2013
- by Erik Davis
- Movies.com
The title really says it all. Far from Dogtown and Z-boys, the burgeoning west coast punk scene and the empty swimming pools that provided endless possibility, in Germany kids were bolting wheels to pieces of wood and seeing what would happen. And with a wall up separating East from West, a government that spied on its citizens and a chance to see the world a distant prospect, it would seem that a thriving subculture in the German Democratic Republic would be impossible. But, it's just the kind of fertile ground for discontent to manifest itself in bold ways, and "This Ain't California" is a docu-drama that captures it all with energy and style to spare. But perhaps the first thing to get out of the way is the question of authenticity. Though presented and positioned as a documentary -- utilizing a blend of real '80s footage of “wheel-board-riders,” with...
- 4/11/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Title: Waiting for Lightning Director: Jacob Rosenberg Another descendant of “Dogtown and Z-Boys,” Stacy Peralta’s influential 2001 documentary about the 1970s rise of popular skateboarding culture and the colorful characters who populated it, “Waiting for Lightning” details the life story of visionary skater, daredevil and X Games star Danny Way, building up to his 2005 attempt to jump the Great Wall of China. A slick technical package and a willingness to peer at least a bit into the difficult childhood and fractured psyche of its subject give this movie a leg up on a lot of its less inquisitive, like-minded, hagiographic stunt spectaculars, like “Nitro Circus: The Movie.” Way was [ Read More ]
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- 12/8/2012
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
Wow, the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival already has been amazing!
Sliff’s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Thursday, November 15th
Shorts Program 8: Quirky Relationships
Shorts Program 8: Quirky Relationships plays at 5:00pm at the Tivoli Theatre
Shorts that give romance a twist.
Boo! (Rupert Reid, Australia, 2012, 5 min.): An aging married couple keep their love alive by staying one step ahead of each other. Coffees (Alex Beh, U.S., 2012, 11 min.): As a last-ditch effort, Mikey decides to go to his ex...
Sliff’s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Thursday, November 15th
Shorts Program 8: Quirky Relationships
Shorts Program 8: Quirky Relationships plays at 5:00pm at the Tivoli Theatre
Shorts that give romance a twist.
Boo! (Rupert Reid, Australia, 2012, 5 min.): An aging married couple keep their love alive by staying one step ahead of each other. Coffees (Alex Beh, U.S., 2012, 11 min.): As a last-ditch effort, Mikey decides to go to his ex...
- 11/15/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Sundance Institute and the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities announced Thursday details for the third edition of Film Forward: Advancing Cultural Dialogue. The program tours internationally through eight different locations and offers film screenings, workshops and conversations with filmmakers as a way to encourage dialogue and awareness about different cultural issues and to promote understanding about stories and values from around the world. At the center of this year's film selection is Benh Zeitlin's Sundance Film Festival grand jury prize winner "Beasts of the Southern Wild," which revolves around a six year old's youthful imagination as she deals with the harsh realities of her ailing father and her rapidly sinking house following a huge storm. Also part of the program is Stacy Peralta's new documentary "Bones Brigade: An Autobiography." As in his previous films "Dogtown and Z-Boys" and...
- 11/2/2012
- by Eric Mattina
- Indiewire
Powell Peralta’s Bones Brigade skate team is hands down the most influential group in the history of skateboarding. They’re largely responsible for making the sport and the industry what it is today, for better or worse depending on your point of view. Stacey Peralta’s (“Dogtown and Z-Boys”) new documentary, “Bones Brigade”, made the film festival rounds this year, and hits Blu-ray, DVD, and on-demand November 6. Check out this new trailer for the release. Guys like Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain, Rodney Mullen, Mike McGill, and Tommy Guerrero, were the first rock stars of the sport, and helped transform skateboarding from a fringe activity to a legitimate mainstream sport. This garnered them tons of praise, but almost as much spite and contempt from traditionalists who wanted skateboarding to remain pure. This is a debate that still rages today, though given how frequently you find skateboarding featured on Espn,...
- 10/27/2012
- by Brent McKnight
- Beyond Hollywood
Ahead of its Sundance premiere, we got a 3-minute-plus extended look at the next film from Dogtown and Z-Boys director Stacy Peralta, a documentary titled The Bones Brigade: An Autobiography. Now with premiere many months ago and the fall approaching, the filmmakers have decided to self-release the film, and along with it we’ve got a new trailer and the first poster.
Following the famous troupe of skaters, it chronicles the rise of skateboarding and its effect on an entire generation. Instead of a kinetic punk-rock aesthetic, it looks like an emotionally touching portrayal of the sport judging from this look. Check out a poster and trailer below via The Playlist for the film that also features Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain and Rodney Mullen.
Synopsis:
Today skateboarding is omnipresent. Take a walk down any street in any town, and you are destined to see someone riding a skateboard.
Following the famous troupe of skaters, it chronicles the rise of skateboarding and its effect on an entire generation. Instead of a kinetic punk-rock aesthetic, it looks like an emotionally touching portrayal of the sport judging from this look. Check out a poster and trailer below via The Playlist for the film that also features Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain and Rodney Mullen.
Synopsis:
Today skateboarding is omnipresent. Take a walk down any street in any town, and you are destined to see someone riding a skateboard.
- 8/21/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Next month, Kristin Bauer van Straten, better known as True Blood’s Pam, will leave for Kenya, where she’ll spend four weeks filming a documentary about the effort to stop elephant ivory and rhino horn poaching — a cause dear to her South African husband’s family. His grandfather was a professor of physiology who helped treat, relocate, and save wildlife. Just as the experts need help to keep elephants and rhinos from going extinct, Bauer van Straten needs help to fund her film project.
With 19 days left on her Kickstarter campaign, she’s reached roughly two-thirds of her $30,000 goal.
With 19 days left on her Kickstarter campaign, she’s reached roughly two-thirds of her $30,000 goal.
- 7/30/2012
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
Most people don't have enough happen in their life to make one documentary, but it turns out Stacy Peralta has enough to make at least two. Eleven years after he delved into his own adolescent history with “Dogtown And Z-Boys,” Peralta has made another skateboarding doc about the next phase of his career after the Z-boys. When Peralta founded his skateboard company Powell Peralta in the late '70s, he brought together a bunch of unknown amateur skaters, cherry picked from around the USA -- including Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero, Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain and Rodney Mullen, among others -- and created a skate team called the Bones Brigade. In case you know less about skating than me, these guys pretty much all grew up to be the top competitors of the 1980s, and went on to inspire and shape the next generation of skaters and their culture -- in short,...
- 5/6/2012
- by Samantha Chater
- The Playlist
For being such a documentary hotshot, Stacy Peralta is one of the coolest directors I've ever met. His films, which include the classic skateboarding film "Dogtown and Z-Boys," "Riding Giants" about surfing, and the definitive South La gang film, "Crips and Bloods: Made in America," are just as cool. Both Peralta and his films are unpretentious, straight-to-the-point and completely affecting. Here at Toronto's Hot Docs' Doc Talks, Cinema Eye's Aj Schnack sat down with Peralta, who is in town promoting his film "Bones Brigade: An Autobiography," about the group of skateboarding legends he was a part of in the 1980's, and "No Room for Rock Stars," a film he produced about the Vans Warped Tour. Peralta's friends, it turns out, asked him six years ago to make "Bones Brigade," about the skateboarding team that included Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain, Tommy Guerrero and...
- 5/3/2012
- by Bryce J. Renninger
- Indiewire
In an ideal world, Australian actor Heath Ledger would have been celebrating his thirty-third birthday today. Heartbreakingly, he isn't here for it: the actor passed away from an accidental prescription drugs overdose just over four years ago, on January 22, 2008. At the time, the actor was shooting Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," and the director managed to finish the film with Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law paying tribute to the late actor by joining the production.
Ledger had a rare talent that seemingly wowed everyone he would work with -- Matt Damon, who appeared with the actor in Gilliam's "The Brothers Grimm," recently called him "the best actor I ever worked with" -- and it's hard not to be distraught at the thought of the performances we'll never get to see. But even so, Ledger left behind an enormously impressive body of work for one so young,...
Ledger had a rare talent that seemingly wowed everyone he would work with -- Matt Damon, who appeared with the actor in Gilliam's "The Brothers Grimm," recently called him "the best actor I ever worked with" -- and it's hard not to be distraught at the thought of the performances we'll never get to see. But even so, Ledger left behind an enormously impressive body of work for one so young,...
- 4/4/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Feel like slamming yourself a wall? Doing a little screaming? Dancing yourself into a frenzy?
You might be in the mood for "No Room for Rockstars," the new rock documentary filmed during the 2010 Vans Warped Tour. Directed by music video director Parris Patton and produced by "Dogtown and Z-Boys" director Stacy Peralta, "No Room for Rockstars" takes us into the world of punk rock through the eyes of its fans and musicians and shows us not just the energy of the scene but also the sense of community and what it's like to spend months on the road. Plus there's some kick-ass music, too.
This exclusive clip from the film introduces us to dogged upstarts Forever Came Calling, who have nothing but a van, a few CDs and a dream that someday they'll actually get to play on the Warped Tour, rather than just tag along on the tour and...
You might be in the mood for "No Room for Rockstars," the new rock documentary filmed during the 2010 Vans Warped Tour. Directed by music video director Parris Patton and produced by "Dogtown and Z-Boys" director Stacy Peralta, "No Room for Rockstars" takes us into the world of punk rock through the eyes of its fans and musicians and shows us not just the energy of the scene but also the sense of community and what it's like to spend months on the road. Plus there's some kick-ass music, too.
This exclusive clip from the film introduces us to dogged upstarts Forever Came Calling, who have nothing but a van, a few CDs and a dream that someday they'll actually get to play on the Warped Tour, rather than just tag along on the tour and...
- 3/28/2012
- by NextMovie Staff
- NextMovie
It's been over a decade since skateboarding pioneer Stacy Peralta brought his partially autobiographic documentary "Dogtown and Z-Boys" to the Sundance Film Festival and walked away with an Audience Award and a prize for his direction. Since then, Peralta has successfully chronicled big wave surfers in "Riding Giants" and street gangs in "Crips and Bloods: Made in America," proving himself to be more than just a one-trick pony as a documentarian, but rather an astute chronicler of men who live extreme lives on the fringes of the mainstream. Peralta returned to Sundance on Saturday (January 21) night for the...
- 1/22/2012
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
Prior to 2001, Stacy Peralta was “just” known as one of the young luminaries of skateboarding, a wunderkind skater who turned his sense of civil disobedience into some of the most influential tricks and techniques in the sport’s history. But after “Dogtown and Z-Boys,” Peralta became something of an official biographer for skateboarding as a whole, not just creating a riveting documentary but spawning the fictionalized version of his younger days, “Lords of Dogtown.” At the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, Peralta is back with another skating documentary, “Bones Brigade: An Autobiography,” in which he chronicles the rise of the Powell-Peralta skateboarding company, which he co-owned, and the transformation of the sport into an international industry. The Playlist caught up with Peralta recently via telephone to talk about 'Bones Brigade.' In addition to discussing the process of putting the film together, he talked about the...
- 1/20/2012
- The Playlist
For the first time in the Sundance film festival's 34-year history, none of the films premiering, including new works from Spike Lee, Stephen Frears and Julie Delpy, have distribution deals
Satisfaction: A Rolling Stones Experience is all over now. IMPROVabilities ('A weekly, wacky Improv Comedy event where you the audience directs the flow of the show!') has been shown the door. Amateur hour at Park City's venerable Egyptian Theatre is over. As a flagship venue for the Sundance film festival, the 90-year-old venue in Utah has undergone its annual clearout in preparation for a host of genuine stars.
Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Cooper and Rebecca Hall are among the talent expected to travel to Utah for the 33rd Sundance film festival, which opens today. Over the next 10 days the festival will see the world premiere of high-profile films including new work from Stephen Frears, Spike Lee and Julie Delpy. Frears's Lay the Favourite,...
Satisfaction: A Rolling Stones Experience is all over now. IMPROVabilities ('A weekly, wacky Improv Comedy event where you the audience directs the flow of the show!') has been shown the door. Amateur hour at Park City's venerable Egyptian Theatre is over. As a flagship venue for the Sundance film festival, the 90-year-old venue in Utah has undergone its annual clearout in preparation for a host of genuine stars.
Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Cooper and Rebecca Hall are among the talent expected to travel to Utah for the 33rd Sundance film festival, which opens today. Over the next 10 days the festival will see the world premiere of high-profile films including new work from Stephen Frears, Spike Lee and Julie Delpy. Frears's Lay the Favourite,...
- 1/19/2012
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
If you are anything like me, then most of your skateboarding knowledge comes from the Tony Hawk: Pro Skater videogame series. Who knew the famous skater had stirred up some controversy as an initial outcast? Exploring that and more director Stacy Peralta returns to Sundance with a new documentary titled Bones Brigade, after the famous troupe of skaters. Following up the much-praised Dogtown and Z-Boys, this looks to be just an engaging and informative. Check out a trailer below via THR for the film that also features Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain and Rodney Mullen.
Synopsis:
Today skateboarding is omnipresent. Take a walk down any street in any town, and you are destined to see someone riding a skateboard. Well, it wasn’t always like that. In the early ’80s, skateboarding was fading away until Stacy Peralta brought a profoundly talented group of outsiders together and dubbed them the Bones Brigade.
Synopsis:
Today skateboarding is omnipresent. Take a walk down any street in any town, and you are destined to see someone riding a skateboard. Well, it wasn’t always like that. In the early ’80s, skateboarding was fading away until Stacy Peralta brought a profoundly talented group of outsiders together and dubbed them the Bones Brigade.
- 1/19/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Stacy Peralta returns to Sundance this year with Bones Brigade: An Autobiography, a continuation of sorts of his first documentary, Dogtown and Z-Boys, which had its premiere in Park City in 2001. Both films explore the creation and culture of modern skateboarding, along with Peralta’s part in it -- this time during the 1980s era, with Bones Brigade members Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero, Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain and Rodney Mullen. Photos: 10 Buzzing Sundance Films That Will Sell THR hosts the first exclusive clip from the movie, which will have it world premiere Saturday, Jan. 21, at the Marc
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- 1/18/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Just about every film at Sundance is a world premiere. So why is there a "Premieres" section, and how is it different than the Competition or the Spotlight or the New Frontiers or the Next or...okay, I think that's all of them. Sundance describes Premieres as "a showcase of some of the most highly anticipated dramatic films of the coming year from new and established directors" and Documentary Premieres as "about big subjects or by master filmmakers that showcase the power of the form."
Basically, what it really means is here's where you find the attention-grabbers at Sundance. These are the big honking movies, the movies featuring Hollywood directors and talent coming down from their Valhalla of craft services and video village to get their hands dirty with the independents. These are the movies that have the biggest red carpets and the majority of the press coverage (see this post).
True to form,...
Basically, what it really means is here's where you find the attention-grabbers at Sundance. These are the big honking movies, the movies featuring Hollywood directors and talent coming down from their Valhalla of craft services and video village to get their hands dirty with the independents. These are the movies that have the biggest red carpets and the majority of the press coverage (see this post).
True to form,...
- 12/6/2011
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
Filed under: Trailers and Clips, Movie News, Video, Coming Soon
Aside from the great 'Dogtown and Z-Boys,' film makers have never really given skaters their proper due in the spotlight. Regardless of whether you think it's a sport or a hobby, skateboarding isn't easy and there's more to skateboarders than a complete disregard for their personal well-being.
After winning some major awards at this year's South by Southwest Film Festival, we're getting our hopes up that 'Dragonslayer' will do for skateboarding what 'The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters' did for video games. So click through to check out the debut trailer and weigh in on the rest of the trailers that broke this past week.
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Aside from the great 'Dogtown and Z-Boys,' film makers have never really given skaters their proper due in the spotlight. Regardless of whether you think it's a sport or a hobby, skateboarding isn't easy and there's more to skateboarders than a complete disregard for their personal well-being.
After winning some major awards at this year's South by Southwest Film Festival, we're getting our hopes up that 'Dragonslayer' will do for skateboarding what 'The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters' did for video games. So click through to check out the debut trailer and weigh in on the rest of the trailers that broke this past week.
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- 8/30/2011
- by Aiden Redmond
- Moviefone
Okay, I’m aware that anyone can use Flickchart to filter their favorite documentaries. That’s Flickchart 101, Derek.
But I decided to focus on documentaries this week because I made an organic list of my ten favorite documentaries for a post I wrote last year on my own blog. This was at a time when I wasn’t aware of Flickchart’s potential to do the same thing, or at least, didn’t yet use the site that way, if I did know.
What truer measure of the effectiveness of Flickchart at distilling my true feelings, than to compare a list I produced from my brain with one produced from Flickchart’s algorithms? As an added bonus, Flickchart might also help me identify a movie I didn’t realize I loved as much as I do. Here is the list I came up with organically, to prepare you for what...
But I decided to focus on documentaries this week because I made an organic list of my ten favorite documentaries for a post I wrote last year on my own blog. This was at a time when I wasn’t aware of Flickchart’s potential to do the same thing, or at least, didn’t yet use the site that way, if I did know.
What truer measure of the effectiveness of Flickchart at distilling my true feelings, than to compare a list I produced from my brain with one produced from Flickchart’s algorithms? As an added bonus, Flickchart might also help me identify a movie I didn’t realize I loved as much as I do. Here is the list I came up with organically, to prepare you for what...
- 8/3/2011
- by Derek Armstrong
- Flickchart
McFly have revealed to Digital Spy that they were heavily influenced by Dogtown and Z-Boys for their new fly-on-the-wall series. The boyband said that the 5* series McFly on the Wall is considerably different from Kerry Katona and Peter Andre's Next Chapter formats, claiming that they were more inspired by traditional documentaries. "Our references were... and don't get me wrong...we're probably not even close, but our references were Riding Giants and Dogtown and Z-Boys," said Harry Judd. "More documentaries than reality shows." Tom Fletcher added: "None of our show is set up. I would never do a camera shot that's (more)...
- 5/11/2011
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
The 2011 Dallas International Film Festival Announces
Award Winners
Jess + Moss receives the $25,000 Target Filmmaker Award for Best Narrative Feature
Elevate receives the $25,000 Target Filmmaker Award for Best Documentary Feature
Five Time Champion receives the $20,000 in Cash, Goods and Services for the Mps Studios Texas Filmmaker Award
If A Tree Falls: A Story Of The Earth Liberation Front receives the Environmental Visions Award
Zero Percent receives the $10,000 Embrey Family Foundation Silver Heart Award
The Legend Of Beaver Dam, The Robbery and Paths Of Hate are named winners for Best Short Film, Student Short and Animated Short
Audience Awards go to Snowmen for Narrative Feature, Wild Horse Wild Ride for Documentary and The Legend Of Beaver Dam for Short
Dallas, TX, April 9, 2011 . For the second year running, the .Dallas Film Society Honors. presented by the Arthur E. Benjamin Foundation provided an elegant forum for the awards presentation at the Dallas International Film Festival presented by Cadillac.
Award Winners
Jess + Moss receives the $25,000 Target Filmmaker Award for Best Narrative Feature
Elevate receives the $25,000 Target Filmmaker Award for Best Documentary Feature
Five Time Champion receives the $20,000 in Cash, Goods and Services for the Mps Studios Texas Filmmaker Award
If A Tree Falls: A Story Of The Earth Liberation Front receives the Environmental Visions Award
Zero Percent receives the $10,000 Embrey Family Foundation Silver Heart Award
The Legend Of Beaver Dam, The Robbery and Paths Of Hate are named winners for Best Short Film, Student Short and Animated Short
Audience Awards go to Snowmen for Narrative Feature, Wild Horse Wild Ride for Documentary and The Legend Of Beaver Dam for Short
Dallas, TX, April 9, 2011 . For the second year running, the .Dallas Film Society Honors. presented by the Arthur E. Benjamin Foundation provided an elegant forum for the awards presentation at the Dallas International Film Festival presented by Cadillac.
- 4/11/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Watching Exit Through the Gift Shop elicits an almost Kübler-Ross reaction from its audience. After the film's release, Banksy did very little - if any - press about it. In a new interview, though, he states the film is 100% truthful, talks about documentary filmmakers as being "punk" and hints at another movie in his future. Read all about it after the jump. Note: This article contains possible spoilers for Exit Through The Gift Shop. In my estimation, there are four stages to the process of watching the film. The first is Interest. You're watching [1] a film about street art, something most of us know little about. The second is Envy. Not only does the film's main subject, Thierry Guetta, get to live in this world but he gets to meet Banksy, the eventual director, who just happens to be the most illusive and famous man in this niche of art.
- 12/21/2010
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
Narrowing down my year-end list, I can’t get Banksy‘s Exit Through The Gift Shop out of my head. The documentary on all things street art is much more than just that, and even upon re-watch it holds up wonderfully. The reclusive street artist that “directed” the film has been in the dark, but now he has finally opened up.
In an interview with documentary blogger Aj Schnack over at All These Wonderful Things, Banksy runs through a number of burning questions. I’ll post some of the great excerpts below, but head over there for the full thing. It’s full of excellent quotes like: “If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.”
On if the film is 100% truth or not:
Obviously the story is bizarre, that’s why I made a film about it, but I’m...
In an interview with documentary blogger Aj Schnack over at All These Wonderful Things, Banksy runs through a number of burning questions. I’ll post some of the great excerpts below, but head over there for the full thing. It’s full of excellent quotes like: “If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.”
On if the film is 100% truth or not:
Obviously the story is bizarre, that’s why I made a film about it, but I’m...
- 12/21/2010
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
0:00 - Intro 3:32 - Headlines: James Cameron vs. Piranha 3-D, James Cameron to Make 3-D Documentary on Amazon Tribe, Shia Labeouf Still Gives Most Value for the Money in Hollywood, Steven Seagal: Lawman Coming Back to A&E, Poll Claims Audiences Still Like Mel Gibson, Unbreakable Sequel… Sort Of 20:00 - Review: Machete 42:30 - Review: The American 1:11:50 - Trailer Trash: 127 Hours, Hobo with a Shotgun 1:26:20 - Other Stuff We Watched: Lady Terminator, Virgins From Hell, Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo, The Running Man, Midnight Express, The Red Riding Trilogy 2:05:05 - Junk Mail: Edgar Wright Q&A, IMDb and Tiff, Sequels We Want and Sequels That Ruined the Original, Turkey Shoot, Digital Copies vs. Hard Copies, Dogtown and Z-Boys 2:36:20 - This Week's DVD Releases 2:38:20 - Twitter Poll Responses 2:40:40 - Outro » Download the MP3 (74 Mb) [1] » View...
- 9/8/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Although I spent a good portion of my early teens raiding the local video shop on a quest to watch as many weird and wonderful titles as I could, there was always one or two which slipped through the cracks. This skating extravaganza from 1986 is one such example.
I always remembered reading about the film when it cropped up in the pages of the DC and Marvel comics I devoured in my youth (sharing advertising space with intriguingly sounding Us sweets like Tootsie Rolls and Milk Duds), but I didn’t actually catch it until a decade or so later, where I enjoyed it more than I had any right to at that age.
Ostensibly a Romeo and Juliet-type tale of two warring ‘tribes’ of skaters played out against the backdrop of a neon-heavy, 80’s Los Angeles setting (populated with pink bikinis and garish-looking beetle convertibles), Thrashin’ is a joy from start to finish.
I always remembered reading about the film when it cropped up in the pages of the DC and Marvel comics I devoured in my youth (sharing advertising space with intriguingly sounding Us sweets like Tootsie Rolls and Milk Duds), but I didn’t actually catch it until a decade or so later, where I enjoyed it more than I had any right to at that age.
Ostensibly a Romeo and Juliet-type tale of two warring ‘tribes’ of skaters played out against the backdrop of a neon-heavy, 80’s Los Angeles setting (populated with pink bikinis and garish-looking beetle convertibles), Thrashin’ is a joy from start to finish.
- 8/1/2010
- by Adam Lowes
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Part of what makes the Oscar-nominated documentary The Cove so riveting is that the film is treated like an espionage thriller. And we can probably thank screenwriter Mark Monroe for much of its exciting narrative. Whether as a writer, director or producer, Monroe tends to work on documentaries with a sporting or adventuring edge. Prior to The Cove, he'd been involved with docs and series about soccer teams, boxing, basketball and sailing. His most recent film, Amir Bar-Lev's Sundance hit The Tillman Story, tackles the story of a pro football player turned tragic war hero.
Monroe's next sport to document is Formula One racing, according to Variety. He'll write the currently untitled project for occasional collaborator Paul Crowder, a filmmaker who also has a background in sports documentaries, having co-directed Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos and edited Stacy Peralta's Riding Giants...
Monroe's next sport to document is Formula One racing, according to Variety. He'll write the currently untitled project for occasional collaborator Paul Crowder, a filmmaker who also has a background in sports documentaries, having co-directed Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos and edited Stacy Peralta's Riding Giants...
- 2/10/2010
- by Christopher Campbell
- Cinematical
Riding Giants (Blu-ray)Sony Home ENTERTAINMENT2004/Rated PG-13/105 minsNow Available – List Price $24.95 Stacy Peralta, who wrote and directed Dogtown and Z-Boys, the terrific 2002 documentary about the invention and culture of skateboarding, takes a look at where the sport got much inspiration from, big-wave surfing. His follow-up documentary Riding Giants is a passionate yet fun examination of the daredevil sport and its larger than live pioneers who were driven by their thrill seeking instincts. Also serving as the film's narrator, Peralta takes us back to surfing's origins with the humorous “1000 Years of Surfing in 2 Minutes or Less” which reveals the development and evolution of the sport amongst Polynesian cultures in the early twentieth century. Told in a Terry Gilliam animation style, the segment takes the story from pre-Christian Hawaii through the Captain Cook islands to southern California and then to a small group of West Coast refugees who went to the...
- 1/14/2010
- LRMonline.com
Dogtown And Z-boys (Blu-raySONY Home ENTERTAINMENT2002/Rated PG-13/91 minsNow Available – List Price $24.95By the mid seventies, skateboarding was considered to be a sixties fad that had all but died out, except for a handful of committed fans in Santa Monica, California. When a group of surfers known as the Zephyr team sought to translate the phenomenal stunts of world-class wave riders onto their skateboards, they had no idea they were giving birth to modern skateboarding. At the Santa Monica Surf Shop, Zephyr Productions, twelve of these surfers organized themselves into a team to compete at local skate events with the help of the store's owners Jeff Ho and Skip Engblom. Soon the radical moves and urban style of the Zephyr Skate Team, aka Z-Boys, destroyed public preconceptions of skateboarding as a sport and a lifestyle, and the pioneering styles of Z-Boy skaters like Tony Alva, Jim Muir, and Jay Adams...
- 1/14/2010
- LRMonline.com
(Young Stacy Peralta, above, right, in Dogtown and Z-Boys.)
The Accidental Revolutionary
by Terry Keefe
(Our line-up of previously unposted interviews from the Naughties continues with my short talk in 2002 with Stacy Peralta, whose Dogtown and Z-Boys documentary went on to spawn an entire sub-genre in the documentary world - as in, "It's Dogtown and Z-Boys set in the formative days of 'fill-in-the-blank sport.'" In 2005, Dogtown was also adapted into the popular narrative feature, Lords of Dogtown, which was directed by Catherine Hardwicke, and gave an early career boost to Emile Hirsch. It also featured a very off-beat performance from Heath Ledger, indicating what he was really capable of as an actor aside from the pretty boy roles he had been typecast in previously. This article originally appeared in Venice Magazine.)
If there had been a few more days of rain in Southern California in the early 70’s, today...
The Accidental Revolutionary
by Terry Keefe
(Our line-up of previously unposted interviews from the Naughties continues with my short talk in 2002 with Stacy Peralta, whose Dogtown and Z-Boys documentary went on to spawn an entire sub-genre in the documentary world - as in, "It's Dogtown and Z-Boys set in the formative days of 'fill-in-the-blank sport.'" In 2005, Dogtown was also adapted into the popular narrative feature, Lords of Dogtown, which was directed by Catherine Hardwicke, and gave an early career boost to Emile Hirsch. It also featured a very off-beat performance from Heath Ledger, indicating what he was really capable of as an actor aside from the pretty boy roles he had been typecast in previously. This article originally appeared in Venice Magazine.)
If there had been a few more days of rain in Southern California in the early 70’s, today...
- 1/6/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Even though Christmas has passed and we’re into the new year, there’s always time for new DVD releases. This week’s releases include , and the second Dawn of the Dead, End of Days, The Green Berets and 10 Things I Hate About You. Of these releases, we are all pretty excited about The Last Starfighter (pictured above).
Check out this week’s releases:
Movies
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 ~ Bonnie Hunt, Shawn Levy (Blu-ray)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs ~ Anna Faris (DVD and Blu-ray)
Dawn of the Dead (2004) ~ Sarah Polley (Blu-ray)
Dogtown and Z-Boys ~ Sean Penn, Jay Adams (Blu-ray)
End of Days (2pc) ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger (Blu-ray)
The Final Destination ~ Bobby Campo, Mykelti Williamson (Blu-ray and DVD)
The Green Berets ~ John Wayne (Blu-ray)
Last Starfighter ~ Lance Guest (Blu-ray)
10 Things I Hate About You ~ Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Julia Stiles (Blu-ray)
50 Dead Men Walking ~ Jim Sturgess, Sir Ben Kingsley,...
Check out this week’s releases:
Movies
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 ~ Bonnie Hunt, Shawn Levy (Blu-ray)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs ~ Anna Faris (DVD and Blu-ray)
Dawn of the Dead (2004) ~ Sarah Polley (Blu-ray)
Dogtown and Z-Boys ~ Sean Penn, Jay Adams (Blu-ray)
End of Days (2pc) ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger (Blu-ray)
The Final Destination ~ Bobby Campo, Mykelti Williamson (Blu-ray and DVD)
The Green Berets ~ John Wayne (Blu-ray)
Last Starfighter ~ Lance Guest (Blu-ray)
10 Things I Hate About You ~ Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Julia Stiles (Blu-ray)
50 Dead Men Walking ~ Jim Sturgess, Sir Ben Kingsley,...
- 1/5/2010
- by Joe Gillis
- The Flickcast
Not a lot of exciting releases this week on DVD, but I'm sure some people will be interested in checking out a couple of last year's biggest 3-D movies, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and The Final Destination. Also, if you need to catch up before the next season starts on HBO, Big Love: The Complete Third Season is out today, and on Blu-ray, you've got Battlestar Galactica: Season 1 plus a couple of Stacy Peralta documentaries. I don't want to tell you how to spend your money, but you might want to wait for next week instead. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs [1] (+ Blu-ray [2]) The Final Destination [3] (+ Blu-ray [4]) Trucker [5] 50 Dead Men Walking [6] (+ Blu-ray [7]) Lorna's Silence [8] The Ministers [9] (+ Blu-ray [10]) 3 Ways To Get a Husband [11] The Hip Hop Project [12] 10 Things I Hate About You: 10th Anniversary Edition [13] (+ Blu-ray [14]) Big Love: Season 3 [15] Chuck: The Complete Second Season [16] (+ Blu-ray [17]) Iron Man...
- 1/5/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Here are the new Blu-ray Releases for January 5th, 2010:
via highdefdigest.com
10 Things I Hate About You: Special Edition (Disney/Buena Vista) 50 Dead Man Walking (Phase 4 Films) Battlestar Galactica: Season 1 (Universal) Cheaper By The Dozen 2 (20th Century Fox) Chuck: The Complete Second Season (Warner Brothers) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Sony) Dogtown and Z-Boys (Sony) The Final Destination 3-D (New Line Cinema) The Green Berets (Warner Brothers) IMAX: Solarmax (Razor Digital) Riding Giants (Sony) Wicked Lake (Shriek Show)
Vactor’s Picks Of The Week:
Other Fused Film Related StoriesVactor’s Blu-ray Bulletin for December 29, 20099 Animated Films of All Time! ">FusedFilm’s Favorite 9 Animated Films of All Time! Vactor’s Blu-ray Bulletin for December 22, 2009Vactor’s Blu-ray Bulletin for Dec 1, 2009Blu-ray Bulletin for October 13, 2009Lie to Me Season 1 (Blu-ray)">DVD Review: Lie to Me Season 1 (Blu-ray)...
via highdefdigest.com
10 Things I Hate About You: Special Edition (Disney/Buena Vista) 50 Dead Man Walking (Phase 4 Films) Battlestar Galactica: Season 1 (Universal) Cheaper By The Dozen 2 (20th Century Fox) Chuck: The Complete Second Season (Warner Brothers) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Sony) Dogtown and Z-Boys (Sony) The Final Destination 3-D (New Line Cinema) The Green Berets (Warner Brothers) IMAX: Solarmax (Razor Digital) Riding Giants (Sony) Wicked Lake (Shriek Show)
Vactor’s Picks Of The Week:
Other Fused Film Related StoriesVactor’s Blu-ray Bulletin for December 29, 20099 Animated Films of All Time! ">FusedFilm’s Favorite 9 Animated Films of All Time! Vactor’s Blu-ray Bulletin for December 22, 2009Vactor’s Blu-ray Bulletin for Dec 1, 2009Blu-ray Bulletin for October 13, 2009Lie to Me Season 1 (Blu-ray)">DVD Review: Lie to Me Season 1 (Blu-ray)...
- 1/5/2010
- by Vactor
- FusedFilm
It's the first Tuesday of a new year, and coming out of the Christmas buying season it's a pretty slow week for new releases. Only two theatrical titles make their bow, along with a few catalog and television titles. This is the DVD Report for Tuesday, January 5.
The venerable "Final Destination" franchise had already gone through three films by 2006, and understandably the producers wanted to shake things up for the next volume. They did that by entering the world of 3-D. The film series, which finds young folks having premonitions of death that come true for people around them, is known for concocting outlandish death scenes (roller coaster accident, a race car careening into the crowd, etc.). So it was only natural to take it to the next level by literally throwing these bizarre tragedies into audience's faces with 3-D.
"The Final Destination" comes to Blu-ray and DVD equipped with those red-and-blue glasses,...
The venerable "Final Destination" franchise had already gone through three films by 2006, and understandably the producers wanted to shake things up for the next volume. They did that by entering the world of 3-D. The film series, which finds young folks having premonitions of death that come true for people around them, is known for concocting outlandish death scenes (roller coaster accident, a race car careening into the crowd, etc.). So it was only natural to take it to the next level by literally throwing these bizarre tragedies into audience's faces with 3-D.
"The Final Destination" comes to Blu-ray and DVD equipped with those red-and-blue glasses,...
- 1/5/2010
- by Brian Jacks
- MTV Movies Blog
Given the public’s insatiable appetite for tales of gangbanging, plus the commercial pedigree of Dogtown And Z-Boys director (and subject) Stacy Peralta, it’s a little surprising that Crips And Bloods: Made In America didn’t receive a wider theatrical release. Or maybe it isn’t. While there’s always a market for lurid, sensationalistic thug-life chronicles, Crips And Bloods is so painfully earnest and unapologetic in its moral relativism that a better subtitle might have been Crips And Bloods: Unfortunate Victims Of Socioeconomic Iniquities. Even die-hard lefties might wind up wishing Peralta would hold his subjects a little ...
- 5/20/2009
- avclub.com
The anti-establishment sport of skateboarding—rewatch Dogtown And Z-Boys; those guys wanted to drain your swimming pool, then take your daughter behind the middle school and get her pregnant—needed to have its anarchist edges softened in order to gain mainstream acceptance for videogame purposes. The result: a decade's worth of solid but uneven Tony Hawk games featuring cop cars being driven by Rosco P. Coltrane-like officers munching donuts. Once Bam Margera began routinely appearing in the games, it was over. The series officially ollied the shark. So it's no surprise that skate 2—the sequel to skate ...
- 1/26/2009
- avclub.com
Sundance Film Festival
PARK CITY -- Following "Riding Giants'" big-wave surfing excursion, feature documentary director Stacy Peralta returns to Southern California with Made in America, albeit the mean streets of south Los Angeles rather than the Santa Monica hardtop of Dogtown and Z-Boys.
In its examination of the origins of the notorious African-American street gangs, the Bloods and Crips, Made in America adopts a far more serious tone than either of Peralta's previous docs, which may make it most suitable for cable broadcast and DVD.
In a typical pubcaster-style setup, Peralta chronicles African-Americans' post-WW II westward migration and the establishment of black working class enclaves in Los Angeles during the '50s. Longtime south L.A. residents, many of them former gang members, relate how blacks were shut out of predominantly white organizations like the Boy Scouts of America and subsequently formed their own clubs, some of which became the precursors to street gangs.
The rival groups of the Crips and Bloods emerged in the neighborhood following the 1965 Watts riots and erosion of the black power movement's favorable influence. Defined by color-coded clothing, gestural signs and block-specific neighborhood boundaries, they've been engaged in ongoing internecine conflict for decades, as the death toll and incarceration rate among African-American men has soared throughout the area.
According to Peralta, himself an L.A. native, the statistics are staggering: Over the past 30 years, 100,000 people have been shot and 15,000 murdered as a result of gang violence in South Los Angeles -- more than even the long-running Northern Ireland conflict.
Combining archival photos, TV and film footage and first-person interviews with current and former gang members, as well as academics and community leaders, Peralta initially creates a persuasive account of the oppression and economic marginalization that have affected Los Angeles' inner-city black neighborhoods.
While Peralta's predominantly African American primary sources provide a unique and sympathetic outlook on gang rivalry and violence, much of the information about institutional discrimination against blacks, particularly the well-documented animosity demonstrated by the Los Angeles Police Department, feels conspicuously dated. The absence of supportive voices from the mainstream black political and Civil Rights communities further compromises the film's impact.
As Made in America unspools without introducing sufficient countervailing viewpoints, tucking information about the gangs' wide-ranging illegal activities deep into the running time, the film shifts from a reportorial documentary style to more of an advocacy approach. Although the film's strength is clearly its definitive point of view, this perspective sometimes comes at the expense of a more rigorously objective treatment.
Technical aspects are impressive with T.J. Mahar's energetic editing giving particular attention to the incorporation of distinctive archival images.
MADE IN AMERICA
Verso Entertainment and Balance Vector Productions present a Form Production
Credits:
Director: Stacy Peralta
Writers: Stacy Peralta, Sam George
Producers Baron Davis, Dan Halsted, Stacy Peralta, Jesse Dylan
Executive producers: Steve Luczo, Quincy "QD3" Jones III
Director of photography: Tony Hardmon
Music: Kamasi Washington, Matter
Editor: T.J. Mahar
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
PARK CITY -- Following "Riding Giants'" big-wave surfing excursion, feature documentary director Stacy Peralta returns to Southern California with Made in America, albeit the mean streets of south Los Angeles rather than the Santa Monica hardtop of Dogtown and Z-Boys.
In its examination of the origins of the notorious African-American street gangs, the Bloods and Crips, Made in America adopts a far more serious tone than either of Peralta's previous docs, which may make it most suitable for cable broadcast and DVD.
In a typical pubcaster-style setup, Peralta chronicles African-Americans' post-WW II westward migration and the establishment of black working class enclaves in Los Angeles during the '50s. Longtime south L.A. residents, many of them former gang members, relate how blacks were shut out of predominantly white organizations like the Boy Scouts of America and subsequently formed their own clubs, some of which became the precursors to street gangs.
The rival groups of the Crips and Bloods emerged in the neighborhood following the 1965 Watts riots and erosion of the black power movement's favorable influence. Defined by color-coded clothing, gestural signs and block-specific neighborhood boundaries, they've been engaged in ongoing internecine conflict for decades, as the death toll and incarceration rate among African-American men has soared throughout the area.
According to Peralta, himself an L.A. native, the statistics are staggering: Over the past 30 years, 100,000 people have been shot and 15,000 murdered as a result of gang violence in South Los Angeles -- more than even the long-running Northern Ireland conflict.
Combining archival photos, TV and film footage and first-person interviews with current and former gang members, as well as academics and community leaders, Peralta initially creates a persuasive account of the oppression and economic marginalization that have affected Los Angeles' inner-city black neighborhoods.
While Peralta's predominantly African American primary sources provide a unique and sympathetic outlook on gang rivalry and violence, much of the information about institutional discrimination against blacks, particularly the well-documented animosity demonstrated by the Los Angeles Police Department, feels conspicuously dated. The absence of supportive voices from the mainstream black political and Civil Rights communities further compromises the film's impact.
As Made in America unspools without introducing sufficient countervailing viewpoints, tucking information about the gangs' wide-ranging illegal activities deep into the running time, the film shifts from a reportorial documentary style to more of an advocacy approach. Although the film's strength is clearly its definitive point of view, this perspective sometimes comes at the expense of a more rigorously objective treatment.
Technical aspects are impressive with T.J. Mahar's energetic editing giving particular attention to the incorporation of distinctive archival images.
MADE IN AMERICA
Verso Entertainment and Balance Vector Productions present a Form Production
Credits:
Director: Stacy Peralta
Writers: Stacy Peralta, Sam George
Producers Baron Davis, Dan Halsted, Stacy Peralta, Jesse Dylan
Executive producers: Steve Luczo, Quincy "QD3" Jones III
Director of photography: Tony Hardmon
Music: Kamasi Washington, Matter
Editor: T.J. Mahar
Running time -- 105 minutes
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