Doug Pray has accomplished a handful of seemingly impossible tasks with his new film, Surfwise. First of all he managed to get interviews with all the members of the Paskowitz family, from parents Doc ...

The counterculture can look tantalizing from a distance. But life off the grid has its downside, too. No one can attest to that better than the Paskowitz children — Adam, Josh, Salvador, Moses, Izzy, ...

Sitting down with four of the eleven members of the Paskowitz family, they seem like any close-knit family. They talk and laugh over one another, finish each others sentences, and patiently repeat ...

If you thought your “peeps” were dysfunctional, just wait until you get a load of the Paskowitz kin in “Surfwise.” About what some consider to be the first family of surfing, director Doug Pray’s ...

"Surfwise" is a unique tale of an ultra health-conscious surfer doctor and his wife who abandoned the material world in the mid-1950s and made waves by home-schooling their nine children in the family ...

Surfwise is not a documentary film about surfing. For this reason, it’s the best movie about surfing to come out in a good long while. Confused? Fair enough. Let me try to explain. Surfwise is, in the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... There’s an irony in the title of the documentary “Surfwise” that may not immediately be apparent. Because this story of a man who, as a TV news segment ...

For its first half, Doug Pray’s mesmerizingly ambivalent documentary about an itinerant family of Jewish surfer health nuts operates in breezy colorful-geezer mode: Surfwise offers 84-year-old ...

Halfway through Surfwise, a mesmerizingly ambivalent documentary about an itinerant family of Jewish surfer-dude health nuts, we meet the 84-year-old patriarch, “Doc” Paskowitz, at Los Angeles’s ...