skateboarding
Feb. 16th, 2019 11:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asakiyumeIn 2012, I was briefly a skateboarder. I loved the speed and grace and daring of it--I wanted to touch that and live that.
That time was brought back to me so vividly tonight watching Skate Kitchen (2018), which I requested from Netflix DVD because ofosprey_archer's excellent review) of it. The film coveys the feel of skateboarding beautifully (and also the dangers of it--part of why I quit: I loved the daring but wasn't up for the injuries), and I loved the posse of girls--real-life members of the Skate Kitchen, an all-girl skate collective in New York City. The director apparently met members of the collective while riding the subway, and she used Rachelle Vinberg, who plays the main character in Skate Kitchen, in a 2016 short film, That One Day.
The scenes of New York City's skating haunts are ones I remember from a video of skateboarding I found and posted back in 2012--it made the movie feel extra real to me.
The trailer pretty accurately captures the feel of the film:
Andosprey_archer, the quote you were trying to find is the voiceover at the start of the trailer (and the scene with the little girl is in the trailer too). You're right: it's beautiful.
That time was brought back to me so vividly tonight watching Skate Kitchen (2018), which I requested from Netflix DVD because of
osprey_archer's excellent review) of it. The film coveys the feel of skateboarding beautifully (and also the dangers of it--part of why I quit: I loved the daring but wasn't up for the injuries), and I loved the posse of girls--real-life members of the Skate Kitchen, an all-girl skate collective in New York City. The director apparently met members of the collective while riding the subway, and she used Rachelle Vinberg, who plays the main character in Skate Kitchen, in a 2016 short film, That One Day.The scenes of New York City's skating haunts are ones I remember from a video of skateboarding I found and posted back in 2012--it made the movie feel extra real to me.
The trailer pretty accurately captures the feel of the film:
And
osprey_archer, the quote you were trying to find is the voiceover at the start of the trailer (and the scene with the little girl is in the trailer too). You're right: it's beautiful.
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Date: 2019-02-17 01:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-17 01:37 pm (UTC)ETA: Hmmm, available through Amazon prime. I don't have Amazon prime, but in my experience I'm able to rent a film that way anyway, Redbox style, so I'll look into that...
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Date: 2019-02-17 01:57 pm (UTC)You can use my Hulu sub to watch it if you like. Just PM me for the login info.
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Date: 2019-02-17 02:01 pm (UTC)