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Riding Giants: Special Edition DVD
Prebook 12/2; Street 1/4/05
Columbia TriStar, Documentary, B.O. $2.3 million, $24.96 DVD, 'PG-13' for brief strong language.
Different boards, familiar story. Stacy Peralta, award-winning director of the powerful, often magical, skateboarding documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys, now turns the camera on the tubes, dudes and breaks of big-wave surfing. The view is no less enthralling than his first sojourn into alternative sports, with Peralta managing to capture the beauty, boldness and magnetism of the pastime that converts so many into lifelong surfers.
Like Dogtown, an...