Sam George’s feature documentary Hollywood Don’t Surf focuses on how many times Hollywood has failed when trying to properly capture surfing will be shown at a sneak preview at the Cannes Film Festival next week according to a story in the Laguna Beach Independent.
The cinematic retrospective explores 50 years of Hollywood surfing movies, featuring rare surfing footage, such as Thomas Edison’s 1906 Hawaiian surfing footage, and excerpts and behind-the-scenes shots from numerous surfing films including “Gidget” beach party movies, “Ride the Wild Surf,” “Big Wednesday,” “North Shore,” “Point Break,” “In God’s Hands” and “Blue Crush.” Interviews with Hollywood luminaries and surf stars include Quentin Tarantino, John Milius, Steven Spielberg, Stacy Peralta, Mac- Gillivray, Gary Busey, Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Greg Noll, Laird Hamilton, Peter Townend, Robert Englund, Frankie Avalon and real-life “Gidget” Kathy Kohner.
We’re most interested in seeing how Sam handles the In God’s Hands section.
[Link: Laguna Beach Independent]
