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Bamcinématek Presents Skateboarding Is Not a Crime, a 24-Film Tribute to the Best of Skateboarding in Cinema, Sep 6—23 BAMcinématek presents Skateboarding is Not a Crime, a 24-film tribute to the best of skateboarding in cinema, Sep 6—23 Opens with George Gage’s 1978 Skateboard with the director in person The Wall Street Journal is the title sponsor for BAMcinématek and BAM Rose Cinemas. Brooklyn, NY/Aug 16, 2013—From Friday, September 6 through Thursday, September 12, BAMcinématek presents Skateboarding is Not a Crime, a 24-film tribute to the best of skateboarding in cinema, from the 1960s to the present. The ultimate in counterculture coolness, skateboarding has made an irresistibly sexy subject for movies thanks to its rebel-athlete superstars, SoCal slacker fashion, and jaw-dropping jumps, ollies, tricks, and stunts. Opening the series on Friday, September 6 is George Gage’s Skateboard (1978), following a lumpish loser who comes up with an ill-advised scheme to manage an all-teen skateboarding team in order to settle his debts with his bookie. An awesomely retro ride through 70s skateboarding culture, Skateboard was written and produced by Miami Vice producer Dick Wolf and stars teen idol Leif Garrett (Alfred Hitchcock’s daughter plays his mom!) and Z-Boys great Tony Alva. Gage will appear in person for a Q&A following the screening. Two of the earliest films in the series showcase the upright technique that dominated in the 60s. Skaterdater (1965—Sep 23), Noel Black’s freewheelingly shot, dialogue-free puppy-love story (made with pre-adolescent members of Torrance, California’s Imperial Skateboard Club) is widely considered to be the first skateboard movie. Claude Jutra’s cinéma vérité lark The Devil’s Toy (1966—Sep 23), is narrated in faux-alarmist fashion, with kids whipping down the hills of Montreal, only to have their decks confiscated by the cops. By the mid-1970s, skateboarding was in the midst of a revolution in style, spearheaded by young star Stacy Peralta. In Freewheelin’ (1976—Sep 7), Peralta is seen ripping up the Escondido reservoir, also a favorite site of Skateboarder magazine’s first Skateboarder of the Year, Tony Alva, featured in Gage’s Skateboard. Only a few years after Peralta and Alva broke through, skating became a big business—one that moviemakers were eager to capitalize on. In Thrashin’ (1986—Sep 7), a deliriously cornball fable, a young Josh Brolin in a Rebel Without a Cause windbreaker stars as the wholesome skater who moves to LA to compete in a tournament and finds himself in a star-crossed affair with the sister of the leader of rival punk skate crew the Daggers. In Gleaming the Cube (1989—Sep 8), freestyle innovator Rodney Mullen did all the tricks for star Christian Slater, who plays an LA skate rat trying to solve the murder of his adopted brother. Thrashin’ and Gleaming the Cube represent the adaptation of a then-novel youth culture to tried- and-true pop entertainment templates. Meanwhile, the DIY skateboarding video—shot guerilla style in different cities, sold through local skate shops, and traded among enthusiasts—was on the rise. Spike Jonze, a freestyle BMX kid and skater himself, had the dexterity for the skate-and- shoot style that would become standard. The prankish and wildly imaginative Yeah Right! (2003— Sep 16) is the apotheosis of Jonze’s innovative skate videos, made for his own Girl Skateboard Company. While shooting teenage skaters in Washington Square Park, photographer Larry Clark met a precocious 19-year-old kid named Harmony Korine and asked him to write the screenplay for what would become Clark’s directorial debut. Kids (1995—Sep 21) was one of the most talked-about movies of its day, a work of street-level reportage looking at the unchaperoned secret lives of Manhattan’s Dead End Kids, starring Chloe Sevigny in her film debut, alongside real-life skaters Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, and the Zoo York-sponsored Harold Hunter. (Jonze’s 1991 skate vid Video Days is briefly visible on a TV in the background). Grim tidings continue with Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park (2007—Sep 21), an adaptation of Blake Nelson’s young adult novel about a teenage skater who accidentally causes a security guard’s death. Gunslinger DP Christopher Doyle’s 8mm footage and the electronic score render the world of the skate park hypnotic. While Clark and Van Sant’s films emphasize the disaffection and disenfranchisement of the half-orphans of skate culture, others play up its redemptive potential and its ability to foster a sense of self-worth. Using vintage footage and new interviews, Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001—Sep 14)—directed by original Z-Boy Peralta—tells the story of the Santa Monica surfer-kids-turned-skate-crew that revolutionized the sport with their aggressive new style, perfected in pools left empty by the California drought. Peralta later drew from these same experiences to write the screenplay for Lords of Dogtown (2005—Sep 22), a fictionalized retelling of the Z-Boys’ rise to fame, starring Heath Ledger and Emile Hirsch, and directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen), a specialist in adolescent psychology who’d begun her career doing production design on the set of Thrashin’. The popularity of Dogtown and Z-Boys led to a bumper crop of skater docs, including Peralta’s own Bones Brigade: An Autobiography (2012—Sep 15), which captured the team of teenage future legends who rode for the Powell Peralta company in the 80s, including Mullen, Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero, and Tony Hawk. Covering the same arc of unprecedented Thrasher magazine fame and fortune, Helen Stickler tells a more troubling story in Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator (2002—Sep 8), the story of Mark “Gator” Rogowski, a half-pipe vert skater who catches major air before hitting hideous rock bottom. While US skateboarding had its roots in suburban anomie and disobedience, Martin Persiel’s This Ain’t California (2012—Sep 13) documents an even stronger oppositional culture—the East German skateboarding scene—with vintage 8mm footage of kids carving up the Alexanderplatz and Brutalist concrete of Berlin. Further testififying to the sport’s international popularity, fictional filmsTilva Roš (2010—Sep 20) and Wasted Youth (2011—Sep 20) feature skate kids in contemporary Serbia and Athens, respectively. And skateboarding continues to seek out new frontiers. Waiting for Lightning (2012—Sep 15) chronicles the build-up to daredevil Danny Way’s 2005 jump over the Great Wall of China, while The Motivation (2013—Sep 14), which premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, follows eight premier skaters, including champs Nyjah Huston and Paul Rodriguez, in preparation for the Street League Championship world tour. This breakaway series from the X-Games was founded in 2010 as an attempt to shake up the status quo in pro skating—a sport that, in its eternal search for speed and the right lines, has never stayed in one place for long. For press information, please contact Lisa Thomas at 718.724.8023 / [email protected] Gabriele Caroti at 718.724.8024 / [email protected] Film Schedule Fri, Sep 6 7*, 9:45pm: Skateboard *Q&A with George Gage Sat, Sep 7 2, 7pm: Thrashin’ 4:30, 9:30pm: Freewheelin’ Sun, Sep 8 2, 7pm: Gleaming the Cube 4:30, 9:30pm: Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator Fri, Sep 13 2, 7pm: This Ain’t California 4:30, 9:30pm: Dragonslayer Sat, Sep 14 2, 7pm: Dogtown and Z-Boys 4:30, 9:30pm: The Motivation Sun, Sep 15 2, 7pm: Bones Brigade: An Autobiography 4:30, 9:30pm: Waiting for Lightning Mon, Sep 16 7, 9:15pm: Yeah Right! + “100%” music video Fri, Sep 20 2, 7pm: Tilva Roš 4:30, 9:30pm: Wasted Youth Sat, Sep 21 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30pm: Kids + Apple Juice Sun, Sep 22 2, 7pm: Paranoid Park 4:30, 9:30pm: Lords of Dogtown Mon, Sep 23 7pm: The Devil’s Toy + Skaterdater + Fruit of the Vine 9:15pm: Shredder Orpheus Film Descriptions Bones Brigade: An Autobiography (2012) 90min Directed by Stacy Peralta. The follow-up to Peralta’s Dogtown and Z-Boys picks up where that touchstone documentary left off. This time around he revisits the superstar team of teenage skateboarders he assembled in the 80s known as the Bones Brigade—including greats like Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, and Tommy Guerrero. A surprisingly poignant look at a ragtag family of sorts, it chronicles an essential moment in skating’s history with raw and revealing frankness. HDCAM. Sun, Sep 15 at 2, 7pm The Devil’s Toy (1966) 15min Directed by Claude Jutra. This strikingly lensed, satirical documentary describes—with cheeky faux alarm—the birth of Montreal’s skateboarding culture. HDCAM. + Skaterdater (1965) 18min Directed by Noel Black. Noel Black’s (Pretty Poison) Cannes prize-winning short is the first skateboarding movie. It’s the story of a young skater’s first crush set to a surf rock soundtrack. 35mm. + Fruit of the Vine (1999) 53min Directed by Coan Nichols & Rick Charnoski. Shot on Super-8, this ode to the daredevils who skate empty swimming pools is “a seminal work of scraped knees, bruised elbows and big air” (Rolling Stone). BetaSP. Mon, Sep 23 at 7pm Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001) 91min Directed by Stacy Peralta. This “enormously enjoyable, high-adrenaline documentary” (Manohla Dargis, LA Weekly) traces the history of the Z-Boys from their origins skating empty swimming pools in gritty 70s Santa Monica (aka “Dogtown”) to their ascent as the ultimate in counterculture cool to their difficulties navigating the pitfalls of success. Wittily narrated by Sean Penn and directed with verve by Z-Boy Stacy Peralta himself, this gold standard of skating movies is Hoop Dreams for skate rats.
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