Dogtown and Z-Boys
October 4, 2005
In the mid-‘70s, California was hit by a crippling drought that made it impossible to surf any kind of decent waves. The locals in an area of West Los Angeles known as Dogtown always had skateboarding to fall back on when the surfing wasn’t any good....
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
September 1, 2002
If Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001) was a documentary that celebrated counterculture skateboarders of the 1970s, then Helen Stickler’s Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator (2003) shows the darker side of the sport. The focus of her film is on Mark “Gator”...
