As director of the first hip-hop movie, “Wild Style,” Charlie Ahearn needed a fresh way to brand his indie film to appeal to a world that wasn’t yet hip to the cultural movement, born in the ...

Universally hailed as the first hip-hop movie, "Wild Style" captures New York's hip-hop culture circa 1981 and several prominent figures including Busy Bee Starski; Fab 5 Freddy; the Cold Crush ...

Over 30 years later, Wild Style is still an American pop culture icon. The players that participated and performed in the movie have made themselves legends in their own right. However ...

Wild Style is widely regarded as the first film ... In 1983, filmmaker and cultural artist Charlie Ahearn premiered the movie in Times Square, selling out screenings for three consecutive weeks ...

When it premiered at a Times Square movie theater in 1983, “Wild Style” sold out for the three weeks it screened. “I wanted to create something that could play to a 14-year-old in a local ...

Wild Style, the first movie ever made about hip-hop, was born. “It was certainly never meant to be a history of hip-hop,” the director tells us in a new interview promoting The Criterion ...

Forty years ago in 1983, the first movie to introduce the world of hip-hop was released. "Wild Style" was shot in the South Bronx and Lower East Side, as well as other parts of the city.

"For me, Wild Style from a movie's perspective is everything," he told Yahoo! Life in March. "Fab Five Freddy sat on the couch on the other side of the counter and he was kind of rocking with me.

(Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) When “Wild Style” opened in Times Square in late 1983, it became the second highest grossing movie in New York City, behind “Terms of Endearment.” ...

When the movie Wild Style was released in 1981, it helped spread the culture of hip-hop across the world. But while Charlie Ahearn and Fab 5 Freddy’s flick has become a cornerstone of hip-hop ...

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