Editing Wild Style (section)

{{Short description|1982 film by Charlie Ahearn}}
{{Other uses|Wildstyle (disambiguation)}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Wild Style
| image          = Wild Style (film poster).jpg
| caption        = [[VHS]] cover
| director       = [[Charlie Ahearn]]<ref name="afi">{{cite web |title=AFI Catalog - Wild Style |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/58164 |website=American Film Institute |access-date=23 March 2025}}</ref>
| writer         = Charlie Ahearn<ref name="afi"/>
| producer       = Charlie Ahearn<ref name="afi"/>
| screenplay     =
| story          =
| based_on       = 
| starring       = {{plainlist|
* [[Lee Quiñones]]
* [[Fab Five Freddy|Fred Braithwaite]]
* [[Patti Astor]]
* [[Sandra Fabara|Sandra "Pink" Fabara]]
}}
| narrator       = 
| music          = {{plainlist|
* Fab Five Freddy
* [[Chris Stein]]
}}
| cinematography = {{plainlist|
* Clive Davidson
* John Foster 
}}
| editing        = Steven C. Brown
| studio         = Wild Style Productions, Inc.<ref name="afi"/>
| distributor    = [[First Run Features]]<ref name="afi"/>
| released       = {{Film date|1982|11||[[Festival du nouveau cinéma]]|1983|11|23|United States}}
| runtime        = 82 minutes
| language       = English
| budget         = $500,000<ref name="afi"/>
| gross          = $15,122 (US){{citation needed|date=May 2021}}
| country        = United States
}}
'''''Wild Style''''' is a 1982 American [[hip hop]] film written, produced and directed by [[Charlie Ahearn]]. Regarded as the first hip hop motion picture,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Ebiri|first=Bilge|date=September 17, 2020|title=The Timeless Honesty of Wild Style, the First Hip-Hop Movie|url=https://www.vulture.com/2020/09/the-timeless-honesty-of-wild-style-the-first-hip-hop-movie.html|access-date=2020-10-06|website=Vulture|language=en-us}}</ref> it includes appearances by seminal figures such as [[Ad-Rock|Adam Horowitz]], [[Fab Five Freddy]], [[Lee Quiñones]], [[Lady Pink]], [[The Rock Steady Crew]], [[The Cold Crush Brothers]], [[Rammellzee]]<ref>[https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/rammellzee-estate-jeffrey-deitch-1234611664/] Estate of Enigmatic Hip-Hop Hero Rammellzee to Be Represented by Jeffrey Deitch Andy Battaglia November 30, 2021 Art News</ref> with Shockdell, Queen Lisa Lee of [[Universal Zulu Nation|Zulu Nation]], [[Grandmaster Flash]], and [[Zephyr (artist)|ZEPHYR]].<ref name=pastemag>{{cite web|last=Krotov|first=Mark|title=Wild Style celebrates anniversary|url=http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2007/10/wild-style-celebrates-.html|publisher=Paste Magazine|access-date=17 August 2011|archive-date=30 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230002158/http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2007/10/wild-style-celebrates-.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Mc Call|first=Tris|title=Rock Steady Crew to throw 34th Anniversary party in Newark's Lincoln Park|date=29 July 2011 |url=http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2011/07/rock_steady_crew_to_throw_34th.html|publisher=NJ.com|access-date=17 August 2011}}</ref>

Filmed in 1981 and completed in 1982,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Interview: Charlie Ahearn, Wild Style Director|url=https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/03/charlie-ahearn-interview|access-date=2021-07-17|website=Red Bull Music Academy|language=en}}</ref> ''Wild Style'' premiered in November 1982 at the [[Festival du nouveau cinéma]] in [[Montreal]], followed by its theatrical release in the United States on November 23, 1983. The film was later released on [[VHS]] by [[Rhino Home Video]] in 1997. In 2007, it was released on [[DVD]] for its 25th anniversary.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Mattin|first=David|date=August 3, 2007|title=Wild Style (2007)|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2007/08/06/wild_style_2007_review.shtml|access-date=2020-10-06|website=BBC}}</ref> A 30th anniversary collector's edition was released on Blu-ray in 2012.