Three years ago, just about every teenage girl singing along with Avril Lavigne's "sk8er boi" started dreaming about skater boys in baggy clothes "rockin' up MTV." Although it may come as a surprise ...

Professional skateboarder Leticia Bufoni breaks down skateboarding in movies and television including 'Lords of Dogtown,' ...

Without a decaying coastal resort area called Dogtown, a pack of rebel rollers known as the Z-Boys, and a 1970s drought that left California swimming pools bone dry, who knows where modern ...

On Jan. 19, 2001, Stacy Peralta's skateboarding documentary lit up Sundance, going on to earn an Audience Award in Park City. By Duane Bygre On Jan. 19, 2001, Stacy Peralta’s skateboarding documentary ...

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 ...

So what are the best skateboarding movies to watch? Do the secrets of our culture lie in skateboarding documentaries, or are they more accurately depicted in Hollywood movies about skateboarding? As ...

At some point or other during the high-energy skateboarding documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys, at least four or five of the gods it depicts are pronounced "the best ever." These heroes, we're told, were ...

The skateboarders in Lords of Dogtown are strange and beautiful things: graceful, sinuous, arcing into concrete, transforming graffiti-spattered streets into an ocean of dips and waves. Their lanky, ...