Archy

[Brocktoon]

Found this in the press releases on Surfline.

Archy was the shit. I hope it's good.

Documentary Film on Surf Icon "Archy" Comes to Theaters this Spring
March 25, 2008
PRESS RELEASE

Billygoat Productions in conjunction with sponsors, RVCA, Surfer Magazine, Santa Cruz Surfboards and Hoven in association with Studio411 is proud to present Archy - a documentary film on Matt "Archy" Archbold.

Directed by Bill Ballard (The Mystic, Blue Crush), Archy chronicles one of the most fascinating and talented surf icons throughout his career as top-amateur, dynamic and innovative pro, troubled athlete, and most of all a survivor.

Archy is a timeless film that tells the story of three very different generations in surfing. Spanning the 80's, 90's and into today, Archy's amazing story is one of survival thru surf stardom at an early age, fame, drugs and alcohol, sponsorships and the surf rock star lifestyle.

Compelling interviews (including the likes of Martin Potter, Chris Mauro, Art Brewer, Bruce Irons, Christian Fletcher, Dino Andino, Moses Paskowitz, Sunny Garcia, Herbie Fletcher and Garth Tarlow), explosive surf action, timeless photos matched with Narration by Henry Rollins from the legendary band Black Flag and set to an all time soundtrack including The Clash, Social Distortion, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, Devo, The Avett Brothers, The Kinks and many others, Archy finally sheds some light on the true life story of one of the most charismatic and legendary surfers in history. Sure to effect audiences of all walks of life around the world, this is a story that needs to be told.

The world premier for Archy is scheduled for Thursday 10th April in Newport Beach, CA. at the Lido Theater with a national tour, hosted by Director Bill Ballard, set to follow starting in Hermosa Beach on Friday 18th April.

The film will be available in both domestic and international surf shops from Tuesday 17th June onwards.


WORLD PREMIER
April 10 Newport Beach, CA Lido Theater

WEST COAST TOUR
April 18 Hermosa Beach, CA Hermosa Beach Theater
April 22 San Luis Obispo, CA Fremont Theater
April 24 Santa Barbara, CA Arlington Theater
April 29 San Francisco, CA Balboa Theater
May 1 Santa Cruz, CA Rio Theater
May 7 Santa Monica, CA Santa Monica 4-Plex
May 8 Laguna Beach, CA South Coast Cinema
May 14 San Diego, CA MCASD
May 15 & 16 Encinitas, CA La Paloma

EAST COAST TOUR
TBA


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[Superstar Punani]

Archy was the shit.

IS the shit.

Archy fucking rules. Power surfing and aerials way before the Slater generation. Super fun guy too. I've always looked up to him as a grom and was stoked to surf, fish and get absolutely shit-bombed with the Man and his lovely gal on a surf trip a while back.



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I can't remember what Kong and Arch were debating over....


...but it ended up with Archy either jumping off, or getting thrown off the dock into knee-deep coral




I hear he's back in the North Shore these days.




[/mancrush]

[Brocktoon]

IS the shit.

By "the shit" I meant: is on the absolute cutting edge of surfing progression and redefines "modern performance surfing" every time he paddles out.

By that definition, he is no longer "the shit" but he is still completely bad ass and shredding 20+ years after his hey day. He is still so smooth, so powerful, so radical. Plus he went from T-Street scrounger to backdoor hellman.

It looks like you had a pretty all-time trip. I share your mancrush and would have loved to have been on that boondoggle. Pohnapei?

[tuffy109]

are you blushing in that picture, or somehow burned more than a white guy?

[Superstar Punani]

BWA!

Those dudes were out maybe 1-2 hours at a time photoslutting it up. Once conditions were less than perfect, or the clouds move in, or whatever, then their photosession ends.

I got toasted because I was out from sunrise to sunset doing 6-8 hour sessions with quick refuelling pitstops on the boat.



Found the shot I was looking for- afternoon session on the 1st day the swell hit. God damn that session is burned in my brain for the rest of my life.

[cito]

Love the Arch, no doubt, super style. Talent off the charts. Never thought of power and charisma tho. Low key redic ripster (esp on 5-15') who killed it, stills kills it, and will continue to kill it. Left a shitload on the table and should reap it. Occy style. Crit Fletch, more the surf/skate love.
Sunny the power to move swell. Pottz had his redic run and title. Dang, Peter Mel, Andino, et al always lookin' up, deservedly or not.
Slate easy hate target, but god damn did that fuck raise his game in every phase and encorporate all of the above, esp power and style, esp doing it in a seemless transition from fun conditions to the serious shit.
No matter how you chalk it up, there's a reason Arch the mac and receives love from just about every faction.

[Brocktoon]

Arch, no power? Are you kidding? Have you seen footage of him at Off the Wall?

Remember that photo sequence of Curren at Backdoor riding the logoless Maurice Cole that caused his rift with Rip Curl around 1990/1991? It is the opening wave in Taylor Steele's first Momentum video. At the time, I believe it was the most perfectly surfed wave ever caught on film: late take off, deep barrel, swooping bottom turn, perfect smooth powerful, full-rail round house. All critical, all stylish, not a drop of water or a finger out of place at any point in the sequence.

About a year or two after that, Archy caught a nearly identical wave at backdoor and surfed it nearly identically. Surfer ran side-by-sides of the sequences and it was uncanny. That was the first time I ever really conceived of him as a power surfer myself. About the only knock you could put on him for that wave was that he wasn't original. Of course if Arch was anything, he was original.

[cito]

Pay attention, never said no power, but isn't his MO. Of course there's power in the tank, but in his prime, no and not debatable. Did he use direction of wave to inflict pain, hells yeah. But going against the grain and being a heavy, nope. This isn't a bad whatsoever, and actually a plus.

[tarkman1]

The movie wasn't too objective. The movie seems to omit a lot of darker times in Archy's life and the impact it had on his surfing.

[Brocktoon]

The movie wasn't too objective. The movie seems to omit a lot of darker times in Archy's life and the impact it had on his surfing.

Did you see the same movie I saw? Christ, it seemed like a third of it was spent skirting around the issue of how he kept delving into addiction. Dibi Fletcher was blaming it on the surf companies for giving him money. Spare me.

I was kind of disappointed. Here's the summary <killer 80s-90s footage, 75% of which you've already seen> interviews with san clemente pier toughs about how arch would blow minds <more old footage> arch was incredibly talented and could have been world champ if the corporations hadn't given him drugs <+ more old footage> yeah, he was really good.

I was pretty disappointed, actually. There were some segments from the late 80s and early 90s that would fit just fine in a modern surf flick. I don't think you could have said that about anyone 15-20 years ago regarding footage from the 60s or 70s. I don't know if that is more a sign of how ahead of his time arch was or how little we've progressed in the last couple decades.

[tarkman1]

How much time did Archy spend in jail? How much did it take away from his surfing? Mentioning binges is one thing. Mentioning how much time he spent in jail and how it affected his surfing is another.

[Brocktoon]

I guess. I don't know if that would have rescued the movie for me, though.

The thing kind of dragged. For everyone they interviewed, you'd think they'd at least have an old interview of Arch in there. Compared to Searching for Tom Curren or the Occumentary, it just paled.