Dogtown

Starring:Rory Cochrane, David Shackelford, Trevor St. John, Price Carson, Karen Black, Bradford L. Schlei, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Ryan James, Jennifer Ingersoll, John Livingston, Harold Russell, Gary Walkow, Theodore Clarfield, Blayn Barbosa, Jon Favreau, Fuller French, Mary Stuart Masterson, Maureen McCormick, Shawnee Smith, Erin Murphy (II)
Director: George Hickenlooper
Studio: Vanguard Cinema
Product Type: DVD

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Sidewalk Surfers Get A Walk in the Sun
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Starring: John Robinson (IX) , Emile Hirsch , Rebecca De Mornay , William Mapother , and Julio Oscar Mechoso
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Lords of Dogtown captures the sheer kinetic joy of skateboarding like no other movie (except, perhaps, Dogtown and Z Boys, a documentary about the very skateboarders this movie depicts). Set in the mid-1970s in Venice, CA--a.k.a. Dogtown--the movie starts with three young aspiring surfers turned skateboarders: Stacy (John Robinson, Elephant), Jay (Emile Hirsch, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys), and Tony (Victor Rasuk, Raising Victor Vargas). When alpha-stoner Skip (Heath Ledger, A Knight's Tale) recognizes the potential of skateboarding as a new sport, his surf shop becomes the center of the boys' universe. They swiftly rise as skateboarding stars and find their brotherhood threatened by sex, money, fame, and ego--it's a common enough story, but director Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen) has a gift for capturing the raw messiness of life. Lords of Dogtown seems to unfold haphazardly, yet every scene moves the increasingly dizzy rise (or fall) of each skater forward with headlong momentum. The excellent cast includes Rebecca De Mornay (Risky Business), Johnny Knoxville (Jackass: The Movie), and Nikki Reed (Thirteen). Lords of Dogtown, written by skater Stacy Peralta (and based on his own life), both celebrates the excitement of testosterone-fueled recklessness and quietly reflects on the cost of getting what you want. --Bret Fetzer

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LORDS OF DOGTOWN tells the radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of sports forever. Stacy Peralta (John Robinson, Elephant), Tony Alva (Victor Rasuk, Raising Victor Vargas) and Jay Adams (Emile Hirsch, The Girl Next Door) are the Z-Boys, a bunch of nobodies until they create a new style of skateboarding that becomes a worldwide phenomenon. But when their hobby becomes a business, the success shreds their friendship. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke (thirteen) and written by Stacy Peralta, Lords of Dogtown is "...a dazzling daredevil ride." (Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE)

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Sidewalk Surfers Get A Walk in the Sun.......2007-06-05

Lords is a high energy film that drags the audience speeding along with it, tracing the early history of skateboarding in Venice, California.

We follow the fortunes of four roughly 15 to 17 year old boys and some of their girlfriends along with an alcoholic skateboard entrepreneur named Skip.

The Lords start their day by boarding off the roofs of the run-down rentals of their parents, in Venice. They hook a ride on a city transit bus until the driver spots them in the rear view and starts fish-tailing to shake them off.

Which turns out to be no problem. Our heroes drop off the bus jag, and segue into a line of stalled traffic, weaving in and out of the car line-up at high speed, by turns, dazzling and angering assorted drivers. Later, the most daring of the Four performs the crazy trick of boarding right thru a red light at a dangerous intersection without being hit.

Skip badgers and cajoles the kids constantly. He exploits them to promote the skateboards he is manufacturing at his Zephyr surfing gear and skateboard store. We are at the dawn of the Skateboard craze and Skip is bent on becoming a millionaire early. Only, he drinks quite a bit and shows signs of being a burnt-out 35 year old hippie.

That is the MO of one of the kid's Moms too, played by Rebecca De Mornay, who is so gone she uses expressions like "far out" and "man" and "can you dig it?" Even her kids treat her like a whacked out hippie. There is a heavy subtext of abused kids with parents who've failed to grow up.

At one point, De Mornay's current "old man" is moving out, and asks her reluctant son to help him, cautioning him to put a blanket over an enormous clear garbage bag of marijuana before carrying it to his car, and offering his surf board as a guilty pay-off for abandoning him, a scene both appalling and amusing to the audience.

Skip keeps running his hand-to-mouth manufacturing enterprise, employing other whacked hippies like himself, only working when they need enough jack to make a connection. Its hard to keep a production schedule when your 'groovy' friends refuse to show up for work. I've just realized, looking at the cast on IMDb, that the cool but whacked Skip is Australian Heartthrob Heath Ledger. This part is so good and Ledger so good in it, he deserves an Oscar. I didn't recognize him in his granny seventies blonde long hair. Its his best work on screen.

The Lords are perplexed and demoralized by the growing showbiz that is starting to overtake boarding. They gradually have given up on Skip, and begun to quarrel. But before falling completely apart, they define a new stunt that quickly makes them the crowned heads of sidewalk surfing.

Los Angeles Area pool-owners are ordered to drain their pools. The Lords decide to practice new stunts in empty pools, stealing into backyards the instant the owners go to work. The audience watches as the surfers perform outrageous tricks in the pools. An article appears in Skateboarding, another in People. Suddenly our boys are stars!

Only not all of them like it. An evil presence has intruded into their idyllic childhoods. One of the Lords steals a girl from a more waspish Lord, who looks like he is one of the Hansens singing group. There's a lot of long blond summer surfing hair on these guys. Only one of them has dark hair. One Lord refuses to accept any of the offers. He turns skinhead and starts hanging out with a gang. The Waspish one gets an endorsement deal and starts touring for a board company. Another of the Lords wants all the marbles, and signs with a Hollywood type who travels with an entourage of hangers-on and cheap bimbos in a longish limousine.

The hapless Skip has lost his guys and his business. We see him hand crafting a surfboard in the back of someone Else's surfing store. A clerk from the retail side comes in and asks if he'll have a customer's board ready by the next day. Skip says yeah, sure. When they leave, Skip relaxes, lights a cig, reaches for his hidden bottle, turns on the radio, acts out a lip-synched Maggie Mae that would put Rod Stewart out of business, then quietly returns to work. The whole 45 second turn is the best thing in the movie.

The wonderful ease of the Lords and the culture they created is spoiled by Success. The Lords stop seeing one another until the dark-haired kid develops a brain tumor and the others, finding success is not what its cracked up to be, gather at his father's dry pool for a rendezvous. An American Graffitti-style Epilogue tells us who the Lords become when they finally grow up.

When the lights go up I'm surprised to find two pairs of girls the only audience viewing the film with me. Voila!, why didn't I see it? This is a chick flick, even a skin movie for girls, since there is quite a bit of bared male surface in it. In the lobby, I notice two of the girls are dressed totally in black, wearing the wool knit hats cool black guys now affect year around, and sporting chains that run from the belt loops of black pants to enormous truckers wallets in their back pockets.

Lords reminds me a little of the stylish Fast and the Furious of a few years ago, but its ten times better. I'm still trying to figure out those two girls.

Lords of Dogtown.......2007-06-02

I purchased this as a gift for my 15 year old son, who is an avid skateboarder. I found this PG-13 DVD only available at Amazon. There is an R rated version out however, I recommend the PG-13 for your teens.
I have not seen the movie myself.

woodpushers go mainstream.......2007-01-25

This retrospective docu-drama ("inspired by a true story") was written by Stacy Peralta, one of the central characters in the film who also wrote the earlier genuine documentary called Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001). Set in Venice Beach in 1975, it follows the fortunes of three teenage surfers-turned-skateboarders who discovered the magic of attaching polyurethane wheels to the bottom of mini-surfboards: "They come from oil, and they grip. You can ride on walls." The film has very little plot or character development, a lot of drugs and alcohol, and the dialogue seldom moves beyond verbal towel-snapping, but there is enjoyable footage of these "wood-pushers" careening on car tops, weaving between traffic, carving empty swimming pools, hitching on the rear bumpers of buses, and competing in the first national skateboard competitions. This film hardly rises to the quality of what Riding Giants did for surfing, but it still provokes some interesting questions about how a small group of stoned beach bums who were greatly disenfranchised from mainstream society jump-started what is now a billion dollar industry complete with X-Games on ESPN.

Great Movie...bad DVD.......2007-01-16

Love the movie...I had seen it before. The particular DVD I got from Amazon was damaged though and it won't play.

"Sir, you're talking to a ditch digger!".......2007-01-14

When I was a teenager, I had a few friends who skate boarded. It looked fun, so I tried it. I went down a steep hill, hit a pebble, flew off the board and landed on my head. I spent the next three days in the hospital with a concussion. The only person who visited was my mother. I decided skating wasn't my thing.

I still liked my skater friends, though, and enjoyed their company, so I tried making skating videos. My first one was of an angry old man in a Cadillac running over a street full of skaters a la "Death Race 2000." My friends were annoyed, said it wasn't how these videos were supposed to be, and showed me what they wanted. I never could get it right, and they eventually quit returning my calls.

I still miss my friends, and when I want to see them again, I resort to watching their doubles in films like "Lords of Dogtown."

"Lords of Dogtown" is a good film -- hardly the "Endless Summer" of skateboarding films, but it's got good performances and some decent skating scenes. Be sure and get the Unrated Extended Cut, not only does it have extra footage, it features a few extra shorts and behind the scenes features. I'd say if you're really interested in the sport, watch the documentary "Dogtown and Z-Boys" first.

I suppose if I'd been a skateboarder, I'd probably appreciate "Lords of Dogtown" more; even though the film goes into detail about the skaters' personal history and relationships, the scene's insularity still feels preserved, which makes the film far less engaging, even cold. More objective filmmakers probably would've done a better job with the "you are there" illusion, as it stands everyone here looks like Josephine.

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Dogtown and Z-Boys DVD
This Movie Was Awesome! I Grew Up During This!
Knew these kids - way back when.....
A Polanyian in Dogtown
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Dogtown and Z-Boys (Deluxe Edition)
Starring: Tony Alva , Bob Biniak , Paul Constantineau , Skip Engblom , and Tony Friedkin
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Release Date: 2005-05-03

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In the early 1970s, a group of young surfers from a tough neighborhood south of Santa Monica took up skateboards and offhandedly changed the world. At least it appears so after watching Dogtown and Z-Boys, a documentary about how twelve "Z-Boys" (including one girl) resuscitated a dead sport and created a lifestyle that spread infectiously to become a worldwide counterculture phenomenon, namely high-flying "vert" (i.e. vertical) skateboarding and punk rock abandon. Director Stacy Peralta, one of the original Z-Boys, and Craig Steyck, the photographer whose publicity first made them famous, would have you believe that with empty pools as their springboard, the clan single-handedly carved a niche that grew into what is now referred to as "extreme sports" (snowboarding seems particularly implicated). Degrees of accuracy aside, the hoard of original footage Peralta and Steyck have access to makes for an engaging portrait of "accidental revolutionaries" whose mythology as expressed by themselves (all but one of the original crew give extensive interviews) and those they influenced (including Henry Rollins, Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam, and Sean Penn, who narrates) is far more entertaining than any evenhanded version could ever hope to be. --Fionn Meade

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Dogtown and Z-Boys DVD.......2007-07-03

Bought this for my husband - I'm not a huge skateboarding fan but the documentary was interesting and engaging. He LOVES it and recommends it to everyone who watches documentaries.

This Movie Was Awesome! I Grew Up During This!.......2007-04-20

Yup... I remember when skateboarding made its big comeback (for me here in Chicago, around 1976) and it was the rage.

This documentary is nothing short of fascinating not only for the surfing/skating history and classic films (plus the narration by Sean Penn--cool!) but for the shots of Venice Beach and the areas around Dogtown back then! I had NO IDEA that it was that run down, especially along Venice Beach, which is like a tourist mecca now.

The footage of them entering their first competition and blowing everybody away--all the square, geeky kids with their silly tricks getting smoked by a bunch of long-haired surf-rat kids. Priceless.

And if you're a current skater or, say, a big Tony Hawk/X-games fan, this is a MUST SEE historical document. There would be none of that without these guys. Entertaining as hell even if you're not a skater (makes me want to go out and get back on the board).

And of course, the music is great and period-accurate. OUTSTANDING movie.

Moves very quickly too; the editing is fantastic.

Knew these kids - way back when............2007-03-09

Knew most of these kids back then, wasn't too much older than they were - loved seeing the history and getting filled in on some of the details we weren't aware of at the time. I had a clothing store a few doors from the original Jeff Ho store on Main St in Santa Monica for many years.... who knew this would be such a milestone back then? These were just cute "surfer" kids causing a little havoc... so innocent by todays standards. Loved this documentary. Loved being part of that time.... Station 26 rules!

A Polanyian in Dogtown.......2007-01-23

This is a cool movie. "Dogtown and Z-boys" is the documentary version of "The Lords of Dogtown," or I guess it'd be better to say that "The Lords of Dogtown" is the non-documentary version of this movie. It's about the little band of boys (which included a couple of girls) in the 1970s who basically invented the sport of skateboarding as we know it. Calling it a sport is a bit of a misnomer. It's competitive, but it's not ultimately about winning, but like surfing, it's about the beauty of human skill--or the skill of creating beauty or the beauty of skillfully and creatively interacting with the earth. For the Z-boys, a skateboard was a way to surf when there weren't any waves. They had a lot of free time on their hands, and there was a big drought in Southern Cal, so they roamed the neighborhood looking for empty swimming pools to skate in. Concrete waves.

One of my favorite parts of the DVD is a clip of some of these guys going back to skate at a schoolyard where it all started (it's in the special features). One reason I liked this is that they're all about my age, a bunch of forty-something guys, balding and grey. But they still had the moves; their bodies had them memorized.

It's a great example of the concept of indwelling, developed by philosopher Michael Polanyi (maybe I should apologize for bringing up a little-known philosopher in a review of a skater movie, but his work really helps me understand and appreciate what these guys did). After lots and lots of practice, the highly skilled skater focusses on the move he's trying to pull off and almost no direct attention to the details of how he does it. In his consciousness, the skateboard is part of him--he indwells it. Polanyi also showed that freedom and community are critical factors in the process of discovery. This bunch of kids had lots of both. Minimal adult supervision had some bad consequences, too, but these guys shifted the skateboard paradigm. You might say it's a life wasted on trivia, but I think the skill and physical grace they demonstrate is a work of art. There's a bit of the image of God here, a bit of truth.

Great Movie.......2007-01-19

Great movie on skateboarding, the Z-boys and how it all got started. If you were a kid during the early to mid 70's, skateboarder or not, it really takes you back to those days. Fantastic sound track as well.

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Sidewalk Surfers Get A Walk in the Sun
Lords of Dogtown
woodpushers go mainstream
Great Movie...bad DVD
"Sir, you're talking to a ditch digger!"

Lords of Dogtown
Starring: John Robinson (IX) , Emile Hirsch , Rebecca De Mornay , William Mapother , and Julio Oscar Mechoso
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Sidewalk Surfers Get A Walk in the Sun.......2007-06-05

Lords of Dogtown.......2007-06-02

woodpushers go mainstream.......2007-01-25

Great Movie...bad DVD.......2007-01-16

Love the movie...I had seen it before. The particular DVD I got from Amazon was damaged though and it won't play.

"Sir, you're talking to a ditch digger!".......2007-01-14

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Where I Grew Up
Lords of Dogtown/Dogtown and Z-Boys
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Release Date: 2005-09-27

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LORDS OF DOGTOWN: LORDS OF DOGTOWN tells the radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of sports forever. Stacy Peralta (John Robinson, Elephant), Tony Alva (Victor Rasuk, Raising Victor Vargas) and Jay Adams (Emile Hirsch, The Girl Next Door) are the Z-Boys, a bunch of nobodies until they create a new style of skateboarding that becomes a worldwide phenomenon. But when their hobby becomes a business, the success shreds their friendship. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen) and written by Stacy Peralta, Lords of Dogtown is "...a dazzling daredevil ride." (Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE)

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Where I Grew Up.......2007-06-12

Great movie. Brings backs memories of growing up in the Venice area. I grew up there in the 40's and 50's, on the canals, before skate boards. I still miss Venice, but could not afford to live in the house I grew up in now.

Lords of Dogtown/Dogtown and Z-Boys.......2007-02-22

My item was sent quickly and in EXCELLENT condition. I was impressed how fast I received my purchase. Thanks so much!

Lords of Dogtown.......2005-11-11

lords of dogtown is a film based a montley crew of skateboarding junkies,the legendary Z boys,who revolutionised t
the sport of skateboarding in the mid1970s in the film ,TONY ALVA(victor rasuk),STACY PERALTA(JOHN ROBINSON)and JAY ADAMS
(EMILE HIRSCH are the skateboarders

everyone can watch it ratings:three stars is enough.if you want to see boys play with their toys in this case skateboarding then you should watch this movie

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Awsome but expensive here

Lords of Dogtown (UMD Mini For PSP)
Starring: Catherine Hardwicke , Heath Ledger , Emile Hirsch , and Rebecca De Mornay
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Awsome but expensive here.......2005-12-28

This is a great movie for people who like skateboarding or surfing. This movie can be for anyone actually. This movie is much cheaper at retail stores but definately worth it. BUY IT TODAY!!!

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giants defeats zboys

Riding Giants (Special Edition) / Dogtown and Z-Boys (Special Edition)
Starring: Jeff Clark (VIII) , Darrick Doerner , Laird John Hamilton , David H. Kalama Jr. , and Dave Kalama
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giants defeats zboys.......2005-08-19

Great 2 DVD set that appears similar on outside but is very different from both how you enjoy it and how you would review it as a film critic. Giants is best thing I have seen and I could watch it almost every night. I do surf, but have plenty non-surfing friends of all ages who also like it. Dogtown follows same outline with skateboarding, but is tremendously self indulgent in the skaters glorifying themselves. The surfers are downright humble by comparison. Summary - great to watch, but could also be used by a film class to compare/contrast the two.

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an actor, hillbillies and some roadkill and you got Dogtown.......2005-03-04

Dogtown is about a former resident turned movie star, Trevor St. John (Payback '99 and Tv's One Life To Live), who returns to his home town inw hich he sees how it hasn't changed one bit. His former school mates havent changed and his family hasnt changed also. His mother is played by Karen Black (House Of 1000 Corpses, Airport 1975) and his sister is played by Natasha Gregson Wagner (Urban Legend, Stranger Than Fiction)...his sister is autistic. The bullies of his past, Rory Cochrane (Tv's CSI:Miami, Empire Records) and Jon Favreau (Swingers, The Big Empty), though you cant understand half of what they say threw out. Favreau and Cochrane skrap up dead animals off the side of the road..hmm. The quiet studdly actor also remembers he had a crush on the once beauty queen, Mary Stuart Masterson, now turned hairstylist who still lives with her abusive drunken dad and her sister. Trevor St. John gives a silent effective performance but the movie drones on with it's sillyness and Favreau chews up everyscene he is in with his racist slurs and his southern tobacco spitting cocky attitude and you just want someone to kill the guy. Also starring Maureen McCormick (TV's Becker).

Sucks! Recorded on a Back-lot Studio in California.......2004-12-01

After watching this movie for about 30 minutes, I knew something was wrong. There were no hills or bunches of trees. It looks like the movie was made in huge somewhat empty parking lot.
Too bad, cause Rory Cochrane is my home.(Know what I am sayin'?) Don't even waste your time. Try and check out "Southlander" instead.

Peace

Should have subtitles for waterheaded folk...........2004-07-07

I did some growing up in Missouri and I feel I don't ever have to go back to visit again. All I have to do is put this little slice of hokum in my DVD player (or try to force it into the VCR ) and golly, I'm back in a good ole show me state of mind. Where, according to this movie, most of the population has a hard time spelling "DVD". Did the filmmakers cut up the funny papers and use Lil' Abner for storyboards? Who backed this film? Skoal? The whole cast should have been ab-duckted and given an anal probing because this group is exactly the type aliens love to visit. Maybe these same little green fellers can reverse time and get me my two hours back.

Whats below 1 star?.......2004-07-06

I can't conceive of a movie worse than this, unless it didn't have Marcia Brady in it. She was hot. It was supposed to take place in Missouri but was obviously shot in a socal backlot. Why would someone think people would not recognize that? They should have a prompt that says "this movies takes place in Missouri, or Iowa, or London, or New York. Any similarities to southern Califonia should be ignored." The characters were just plain stupid. You can find those kind of fetal-alcohol adults anywhere. Pure drivel. MST3K material.

Don't Waste Your Time.......2004-05-15

Another reviewer stated this is "a midwesterner's view of the midwest...". That's crap.... As someone from Missouri and who's been to Cuba this movie is about as real (and insulting) if they had done Boyz in the Hood with middle aged white guys in blackface.

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Dogtown plot summary..........2006-02-03

From IMDB.com: "Two guys. One girl. Someone loses. Philip Van Horn, who left his small town a long time ago to become a Hollywood actor and hasn't had any success at that, returns to the town for a visit. There he is uniformally met like some kind of celebrity and movie star. He uses it to impress his (and everybody's) school love Dorothy, her life now a grey boring experience."

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Dogtown & Z Boys / Grateful Dawg
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Dogtown and Z-Boys
In the early 1970s, a group of young surfers from a tough neighborhood south of Santa Monica took up skateboards and offhandedly changed the world. At least it appears so after watching Dogtown and Z-Boys, a documentary about how twelve "Z-Boys" (including one girl) resuscitated a dead sport and created a lifestyle that spread infectiously to become a worldwide counterculture phenomenon, namely high-flying "vert" (i.e. vertical) skateboarding and punk rock abandon. Director Stacy Peralta, one of the original Z-Boys, and Craig Steyck, the photographer whose publicity first made them famous, would have you believe that with empty pools as their springboard, the clan single-handedly carved a niche that grew into what is now referred to as "extreme sports" (snowboarding seems particularly implicated). Degrees of accuracy aside, the hoard of original footage Peralta and Steyck have access to makes for an engaging portrait of "accidental revolutionaries" whose mythology as expressed by themselves (all but one of the original crew give extensive interviews) and those they influenced (including Henry Rollins, Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam, and Sean Penn, who narrates) is far more entertaining than any evenhanded version could ever hope to be. --Fionn Meade

Grateful Dawg
Jerry Garcia was famous as the visionary behind the Grateful Dead, but his musical tastes were broad, and he found a rewarding partnership with mandolinist David Grisman, whose distinctive "Dawg" style fused jazz with bluegrass. At its best, Grateful Dawg celebrates the easy friendship and truly inspired musicianship of Garcia and Grisman through grainy home-movie footage with surprisingly crisp sound. As one of the film's commentators says, Grisman made Garcia tighter as a musician, while Garcia made Grisman looser, and where they met they created an infectious, rootsy style they called Grateful Dawg. The film's many highlights include instrumental versions of "Dawg Waltz," "Shady Grove," and "Arabia," as well as splendid footage from Garcia and Grisman's days in Old & in the Way. The talking heads inserted ham-handedly between and over performances, unfortunately, become repetitious and, finally, downright annoying. But Garcia and Grisman fans will still enjoy the glimpse at a rare musical alchemy. --Anne Hurley

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