In 1981 he was featured in the influential break dancing
film Wild Style.
Ahearn's brother, Charlie,
filmed Wild Style (1983) there, a film that became the hip hop culture manifesto.
Not exact matches
Before Charlie Ahearn shot his seminal hip - hop
film «
Wild Style» in 1982, he was directly exposed to the bourgeoning hip - hop, break - dancing and graffiti movement, while shooting his super-8 martial arts epic «The Deadly Art of Survival» around the projects (next door to his apartment) in the Lower East Side in 1979.
And because the world of Rockstar's latest is already historic, documented,
filmed, it appears just as we've come to expect the
Wild West to appear: dusty sand dunes, dry tumbleweeds, cheaply built wooden buildings, moustached sherifs, cheap prostitutes — it's Stagecoach, Tombstone, For a Few Dollars More, in
style and substance.
Matthew Vaughn is no stranger to bringing fun and
wild comic - book
style films to life and one his best has to be The Kingsman: The Secret Service which hit us with a bang back -LSB-...]
Mud could easily be this year's Beasts of the Southern
Wild -
style, inspirational indie break - out, even if it's not as dark or unconventional as Nichols» last two
films.
Few would argue against The Tree of Life being one of the very best
films of the year, but it remains the biggest
wild card of awards season, a massively beloved masterpiece whose impressionistic
style and ostensible inaccessibility have presumably prevented it from surging forward as a sure thing.
Both
films have a
wild cinematic
style that suggests a lust for the new, the different.
And because the world of Rockstar's latest is already historic, documented,
filmed, it appears just as we've come to expect the
Wild West to appear: dusty sand dunes, dry tumbleweeds, cheaply built wooden buildings, moustached sherifs, cheap prostitutes — it's Stagecoach, Tombstone, For a Few Dollars More, in
style and substance.
Artists A-One, Daze, Dondi, Koor, Lady Pink, Noc, Richard Hambleton and Rammellzee appear in the
films «Downtown 81» by Edo Bertoglio, «
Wild Style» by Charlie Ahearn and «
Style Wars» by Henry Chalfant and Tony Silver.
Lee starred in Charlie Ahearn's 1983 classic
film «
Wild Style,» and appeared in Blondie's video «Rapture» along with Jean Michael Basquiat and Fred Braithwaite, and in the
film «Downtown 81.»
Discovered by a larger audience through 80's cult
films like
Wild Style and
Style Wars, his artwork and performances has been exhibited world wide, in galleries and museums including P.S. 1 and the Venice Biennale, and the biggest museum of all: the train yard.
As the galleries spiral inward, the artwork seems to shed outside references — from the text - laden political paintings of Chéri Samba and Jenny Holzer, to the La Jetée - inflected proto -
film installation by Emily Jacir, to the mythic, duskily luminous reverse paintings on acrylic sheets by Nalini Malani, whose umbilical cord imagery segues curiously but seamlessly into the antic zigzags of Elizabeth Murray's unchained «
Wild Style.»
A beachfront deck, cozy outdoor seating areas and a fire pit make the property perfect for one of the
wild 20s -
style soirees featured in DiCaprio's next
film, a remake of the «The Great Gatsby,» which will be out in the summer of 2013.