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Style Wars : Revisited


PRICE $11.21

This limited edition of the classic film Style Wars features 30 minutes of “never-before-released” outtakes, new interviews and “where are they now” footage.  also featured in this edition are new commentary tracks, “Destroy all Lines” and the Aesop Rock music video “No Jumper Cables”.  Style Wars is the legendary hip [...]

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Style Wars


PRICE $20.96

Style Wars is the original Hip Hop documentary.  Directed by Tony Silver and produced by Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant, it was awarded the Grand Prize for Documentaries at the 1984 Sundance Film Festival, the first of many awards and citations.  Winning high praise from the local graffiti writing community [...]

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Flyin' Cut Sleeves


PRICE $12.71

Produced and directed by Henry Chalfant and Rita Fecher Completed in 1993 Flyin’ Cut Sleeves presents alternating portrayals, from the past and the present, of former street gang presidents in the Bronx:  Benjy Melendez, The Ghetto Brothers, Ben Buxton, The Savage Nomads,  Nelly “China” Velez, The Savage Nomad Girls, Felipe [...]

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From Mambo to Hip Hop


PRICE $14.69

Directed by Henry Chalfant Alma Award for Best Documentary in 2007 The film presents a panoramic view of the music that blossomed in the Latino community of the South Bronx from the late 1940’s,  when Mambo burst onto the New York cultural scene, through the birth of Hip Hop in [...]

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