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- With a soundtrack of old-school hip-hop like Grandmaster Flash, the film is a fantastic origin story of a culture that still continues to exist to this day. Rated: 4/5 • Aug 17, 2017 Yes, there were Style Wars back in the day. But they weren't just battling over graffiti design. The war was over which way the cultural landscape would swing.
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Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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May 15, 2020 · Style Wars is the linchpin of the early ’80s hip-hop canon that includes narrative films like Wild Style, Breakin’, and Beat Street. It won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 1984 and became...
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One of the best documentaries ever made and hands down the best hip hop documentary... Except for the narrator. Rated 5/5 Stars • 01/17/23. As far as the graffiti and hip hop culture is ...
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Style Wars Reviews. Bottles the electric energy of the time for posterity, making it an endless source of inspiration in any period. Full Review | Nov 18, 2023. With a soundtrack of old-school...
Nov 22, 2013 · Style Wars was there to film what happened when graffiti exploded to the point of feeling pressure on all sides — from the art market, from the cops, and from an internal battle over whether...
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Style Wars is an American 1983 documentary film on hip hop culture, directed by Tony Silver and produced in collaboration with Henry Chalfant. The film has an emphasis on graffiti, although bboying and rapping are covered to a lesser extent.
Pivotal documentary that primarily examines the aerosol art movement of New York in the early 80s, but which also touches on break dancing and rapping. Included are interviews with many of the influential and establishing graffiti artists, subway transit personnel, politicians and various New Yorkers.
