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Filmed
By: Bruce Brown
Year
Of Production: 1964
Duration: 88 minutes
- This is the surf video that all others
are judged by.
- Made over a period of a couple of years,
it was the ultimate in surfing travel "documentaries".
- The notion was pretty simple.
- Take a couple of good surfers and chase
the summer around the world.
- Some of the situations are a bit contrived,
such as the hike over the endless sand dunes to "discover" Cape
St Francis, or the "no surf in Tahiti" bit.
- But the spots they surfed and the people
they met made this far more than just another surf flick.
- This was THE surf flick.
- I watched it for something like a week
straight at a surf film festival back in the 60's, and have probably viewed
it in excess of 200 times since.
- It's a classic.
ENDLESS
SUMMER II
Filmed
By: Bruce Brown
Year
Of Production: Around 1990
Duration: 101 minutes
- It was a long time coming, but Endless
Summer II was well worth the wait.
- As with ES 1, this film has a few contrived
bits which are fairly corny, and the segment shot with Nat Young is down-right
embarrassing.
- It was good to see some of the old characters
like Robert August and John Whitmore, as well as some of the old places like
Cape St Francis.
- This flick was certainly not going to
follow the route of the original Endless Summer, which in some respects was
unfortunate, but it did introduce the traveling surfer to what in 1990 were
isolated or scarcely surfed regions of our planet.
- Not so these days though, with places
like G-Land and Tavarua now hosting rounds of the World Surfing Championships.
- I sometimes wonder whether people like
Gerry Lopez regret the loss of their private little pieces of paradise to
the world of the traveling surfer.
- But that aside, this 8th (and probably
final) contribution from the Bruce Brown Collection is great and worth getting
hold of.
ENDLESS
SUMMER REVISITED
Filmed
By: Dana Brown
Year
Of Production: 2000
Duration: 70 minutes
- It sounded so simple, yet in 1966 a young
filmmaker named Bruce Brown captured the essence of a sport as never before.
- To stand atop a crescendo of water, to
ride on nature's all powerful wave feeling the speed and spray accelerate
with each moment, and to embrace a lifestyle uniquely connected to a single
word, SURFING.
- The film was "THE ENDLESS SUMMER".
- Now, Bruce Brown and filmmaker son, Dana,
have created an all new classic, featuring never-before-seen footage from
"The Endless Summer".
- Embark on a journey of adventure, discovery
and the incredible challenge of facing a fifteen foot wall of water as the
sport's greatest surfers look back on the thrills, the spills, and the movie
that uniquely embraced the lifelong search for that shining beach, that glowing
sunset, that perfect wave.
- This is a great little film.
- Dana Brown laughingly says that it is
just another way of extracting people's hard-earned money from them.
- But whether that's a fact or not, it IS
a fact that it's a great piece of light entertainment.
Filmed
By: Paul Witzig
Year of Production:
1969
Duration: 78 minutes
- This is definitely an oldie but a goodie.
- There is no commentary to speak of, and very little indication
of where the spots are that are being filmed.
- Hot surfers of the time were featured. Keith Paul, Wayne
Lynch, Nat Young, Butch Cooney, etc...
- There are a lot of overseas places featured including
France, Morocco, Portugal, Puerto Rico, and so-on.
- Thirty years ago this was considered very daring stuff.
- Most of the places they visited probably didn't have any
idea what surfboards were, let alone see people riding them.
- You won't find any made for film set-ups like in some
American surf flicks.
- This was 100% surf action.