There's such a frenetic, freestyle buzz to the construction of Dogtown and Z-Boys that it might be easy to overlook an apparently mundane detail: the absence of opening credits. Dogtown dives into its ...

Lords of Dogtown is an odd, disorienting commodity — a fictional version of a documentary (Dogtown and Z-Boys) about the birth of skateboarding in 1970s Venice, California, that was written by the man ...

The most compelling element of Dogtown and Z-Boys, Stacy Peralta’s valentine to a crew of footloose Southern California teenagers who set a radical new style in skateboarding in the 1970s, is the ...

THE LOWDOWN: Documentary about the teen surfers of Los Angeles who transformed skateboarding into an extreme sport in the 1970s. Director Stacy Peralta, one of the original "Z-Boys," captures the ...

In 2001, the documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys memorialized the ratty, revolutionary surfing and skateboarding from the infamous Zephyr team out of Venice Beach, California. Guys like Jay Adams, Tony ...

In the summer of 1975, modern skateboarding was invented in the Santa Monica and Venice Beach areas of California. The young members of the Zephyr Team, sponsored by a permanently stoned surfboard ...