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April 23, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
Twinkies, Twerking, & Paraplegic Crowd Surfing
Fun Fun Fun Fest 8 – wrapped
"...set list. Their performance brought out budding FFF8 legend "crowd-surfing-wheelchair-guy."..."
Nov. 15, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin
Surfing Indra's Net
"...another line to another jewel, and another, and another, surfing Indra's net...."
Nov. 6, 1998 Music Feature by Robert Faires
Web Drinking Games: Surfing to Get Soused
Nov. 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman
Channel Surfing
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Feb. 6, 1998 Screens Column by Margaret Moser
Step Into Liquid
Surf's up! It's The Endless Summer: The Next Generation.
"...Directed by: Dana Brown. Bruce Brown’s 1966 documentary on surfing and the surfing lifestyle, The Endless Summer, was the..."
Sept. 5, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Blue Crush
"...Matthew Davis, Mika Boorem and Faizon Love. Same sport (surfing), same locale (Hawaii), same gender and attire (girls in..."
Aug. 16, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Chasing Mavericks
Starring Gerard Butler, this inspirational surfing drama somehow fails to inspire.
"...An inspirational surfing drama that somehow fails to inspire – despite a..."
Oct. 26, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Bra Boys
Russell Crowe narrates this insider's documentary about Australia's Bra Boys – a family of brawlers whose exploits are legendary.
"...enough for today’s stimulation-starved viewers. Take the Bra Boys surfing club, for example: Depending on who you talk to,..."
May 30, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
The Endless Summer II
"...feats are so breathtaking that you needn't be a surfing nut to get stoked on The Endless Summer II...."
June 10, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Soul Surfer
It's the true story of surfing sensation Bethany Hamilton, who lost an arm to a shark at the age of 13.
"...of 13 before going on to become one of surfing's all-time legends, Soul Surfer is faith-based filmmaking at its..."
April 8, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Extreme Days
"...Dante Basco. Extreme sports -- skate and snow boarding, surfing, paintball intifadas and the like -- have rarely been..."
Oct. 5, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Baja
Kerouac-loving road trip stalls out fast.
"...me perplexed. During a pit stop, the boys go surfing, and the use of a green screen is so..."
April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White
Larry Crowne
Tom Hanks directs and co-stars in this rom-com with Julia Roberts, though I suspect neither actor will list it high on their résumés.
"...Tainot (Roberts), a chilly, alcoholic woman married to a porn-surfing ex-prof turned lazy novelist (Cranston), who, in turn, creates..."
July 1, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
A Town Called Panic
This whimsical, Belgian import is an animated stop-motion fantasy that uses childhood toys as characters who find themselves in all manner of goofy yet compelling adventures.
"...Patar's 10-minute episodes in a festival situation or while surfing the Web and quite another to spend more than..."
Jan. 22, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Surfwise
This documentary is a revealing portrait of Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz, the spiritual father of Israeli surf and the corporeal father of a nine-child surfing dynasty in California.
"...Israeli surf and the corporeal father of a nine-child surfing dynasty. A Stanford-educated, surf-loving general practitioner who shrugged off..."
June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Lords of Dogtown
This narrative re-creation of the skateboarding doc Dogtown and Z-Boys is a blast, as accurate as it ought to be with more than enough mythology and gut thrills thrown in for good measure.
"...the pure delight of what was and is essentially surfing on land. Everything else is secondary, but to Peralta’s..."
June 10, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Paris by Net
Surfing to the City of Light
"...of day-tripping in Paris began late one night while surfing the Web. A trip to England, Scotland, Wales, and..."
Aug. 25, 2000 Features Feature by Margaret Moser
Gift
"...smoke. Cut together with various flashbacks of the couple surfing and clowning around on Venice Beach, the emotional resonance..."
Feb. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Exposure
"...of Rio street life -- from its death-defying train surfing boys to its gregarious swirl of social activity and..."
Jan. 31, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
SXSW Interview: Margaret Brown
We're all connected through the Great Invisible
"...AC: Have you been surfing?..."
March 10, 2014 SXSW Post by Kate X Messer
Day Trips
The Texas Surf Museum in Corpus Christi tells the story of an era as well as the evolution of the sport along the Texas coast
"...the Lone Star State has a long history of surfing...."
Aug. 5, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Riding Giants
A creative wipe-out from the director of Dogtown and Z-Boys
"...of the Seventies and Eighties, whereas much of the surfing boom Peralta documents in Riding Giants belongs to the..."
Aug. 13, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton
Intimate portrait of the surfing legend only skims the surface.
"...across the English Channel, broke European speed records in windsurfing, pioneered “tow-in” surfing, and gained major recognition for conquering..."
Oct. 20, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White
Point Break
Remake of 1991's action bromance
"...Bodhi (who was played by Patrick Swayze as a surfing Siddhartha), the new Bodhi (Édgar Ramírez) also seeks enlightenment,..."
Jan. 1, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Summer Fun: Boogie Like a Boss at the Bahn
We rode the wave for science, and you can too.
"...and hydroengineering marvel, the Boogie Bahn, a “continuous wave surfing machine.”..."
June 10, 2013 Chronolog Post by David Estlund
Shining Lighthouse
"...But once again, I found that surfing channels led to something quite wonderful: Legendary Lighthouses began..."
Oct. 9, 1998 Screens Column by Margaret Moser
Joe Satriani
"...his gallops into coastal breakers beginning with 1987 hit Surfing With the Alien, and whether arming bellicose AOR rock..."
July 4, 2014 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez
Surfer Girl
Local wakesurf phenom Raleigh Hager acclimates to life at the top of the podium
"...Raleigh Hager has been wakesurfing Lake Austin – or as she hashtags it, #LATX..."
May 16, 2014 Features Feature by Sarah Marloff
Just Don't Call It Wakeboarding
"...catch J.B.'s daughter – the women's world champion in wakesurfing – in action. Pretty soon, popular J.B. may have..."
May 16, 2014 Features Feature by Kate X Messer
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