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
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