Review: 'Momentum Generation,' a new HBO surf documentary, brought this critic to tears. More than once
You do not need to be interested in surfing to be excited and moved by Jeff and Michael Zimbalist's excellent, eloquent documentary "Momentum Generation," which was to premiere Tuesday on HBO. A surf film might not be the first thing you'd expect to bring you repeatedly to tears, but I can say with authority it is possible.
Even to a casual observer, there is something especially marvelous, occasionally miraculous and artful about surfing - nature makes every ride an improvisation, a sort of argumentative collaboration between the surfer and the surfed. When the waves
