Even if you’ve never ridden a skateboard or had any interest in people who do, you’ll get a kick out of Stacy Peralta’s documentary “Bones Brigade: An Autography.’’
Back in the ’80s, Peralta gathered together a bunch of young, hip, talented and unknown skateboarders — one only 13 — to form a team called Bones Brigade, which he managed. They were amazingly successful; in fact, you could call them skateboarding’s equivalent of The Beatles. The team included such icons of the game as Tommy Guerrero, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain, Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen and Steve Caballero.
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Peralta mixes vintage footage of the lads doing unbelievable stunts with contemporary interviews in which they let their hair down. Many now married with children, they reveal the ups and downs of their skateboarding careers. This film makes a great companion piece to Peralta’s “Dogtown and Z-Boys,’’ which leaves off where “Bones Brigades’’ begins.