Once in a while, a director makes a film documentary that really reveals the emotions and the camaraderie (if any) in the events and the people inside it. Stacy Peralta has done it twice with Dogtown & Z-Boys and Riding Giants. Likewise Jeffrey Blitz with Spellbound and even Kevin MacDonald with One Day In September.
Gpod has torrented Doug Pray’s Scratch, another documentary in that league.
“This energetic, insightful film, which was a big hit at the 2001 Sundance Festival, traces the birth of “turntablism.” Directed by Doug Pray, Scratch documents the ongoing history of today’s turntablist movement and features...