Editing Wild Style (section)

== Release ==
''Wild Style'' was first shown at the [[Festival du nouveau cinéma]] in [[Montreal]] in November 1982.<ref name="complex">{{cite web |last1=Gale |first1=Alex |title=The Oral History of "Wild Style" |url=https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/alex-gale/oral-history-wild-style |website=Complex |access-date=24 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Carruthers |first1=Jim |title=Out of My Mind |journal=[[The Link (newspaper)|The Link]]|date=November 5, 1982 |volume=3 |issue=18 |page=11 |url=https://thelinknewspaper.ca/pdf/The_Link_-_Vol_03__No_18_text.pdf |access-date=24 March 2025}}</ref> The film had its US premiere as part of the [[New Directors/New Films Festival]] at the 57th Street Playhouse in New York on March 18, 1983.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|last=Canby|first=Vincent|date=March 18, 1983|title='WILD STYLE,' RAPPING AND PAINTING GRAFFITI|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/18/movies/wild-style-rapping-and-painting-graffiti.html|access-date=2021-07-17|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Interestingly, the film was shown in theaters in Tokyo a month before it opened at Embassy 46th Street Theatre on [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]] on November 23, 1983.<ref name="afi"/><ref>{{Cite news|date=November 25, 1983|title=SCREEN: 'WILD STYLE,' A BRONX VIEW|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/25/arts/screen-wild-style-a-bronx-view.html|access-date=2021-07-17|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> By January 1984,<ref name="afi"/> it was being shown in other major cities.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|last=Palmer|first=Robert|date=February 22, 1984|title=THE POP LIFE; RAP AND HIP-HOP MUSIC IN 'WILD STYLE'|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/22/arts/the-pop-life-rap-and-hip-hop-music-in-wild-style.html|access-date=2021-07-17|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>