Style Wars

Style Wars
by Tony Silver

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Actor: Sam Schacht, Wayne Frost
Director: Tony Silver
Cinematographer: Burleigh Wartes
Editor: Victor Kanefsky
Editor: Sam Pollard
Editor: Mary Alfieri
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 70 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Passion River

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Movie Review: The Bible for the birth of hip hop culture!!
Summary: 5 Stars

This documentary is timeless! Perfectly outlines the birth of Hip-Hop Culture on the streets of it's birthplace, New York City and it's boroughs.
It also captures the Legends before they were considered Legends...Rock Steady Crews own Frosty Freeze (RIP) and Crazy Legs as well as Graffiti Legends SEEN, DONDI, IZ the WIZ, ZEPHYR etc..etc...
Hands down the Bible of Underground Hip Hop Culture!

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When director Tony Silver and co-producer Henry Chalfant delivered the broadcast version of their prize-winning film to PBS in 1983, the world received its first full immersion in the phenomenon that had taken over New York City. The urban landscape was

Some call it tagging, some call it writing, still others call it bombing--it's all graffiti. Whether it's art or not is another matter, but it's undeniably illegal. Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's historic PBS documentary Style Wars tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s. At the peak of its popularity, graffiti was as much a part of B-boy culture as rapping, scratching, and breaking. The filmmakers present a sympathetic, but well-rounded portrait of their subject through extensive interviews with taggers--notably Seen, Kase, and Dondi--art collectors, transit authorities, and even Mayor Ed Koch, who would eventually put the hammer down. Along the way, they documented the burgeoning breakdance scene, with a focus on the world-famous Rock Steady Crew. The soundtrack features selections from Grandmaster Flash, the Treacherous Three, and other tagger-approved icons of old-school hip-hop. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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