Rize

Noted photographer David LaChapelle makes his feature directorial debut with this documentary on a new facet of street culture in South Central Los Angeles. In 1992, after long-simmering racial tensions in Los Angeles erupted in riots following the verdicts in the Rodney King trial, a man named ...more

The subject matter of Rize may be familiar to some as the target of a famous South Park parody, or as the central activity in You Got Served, the failed fiction-film treatment of competitive urban dancing (which that classic South Park episode also skewers). But only in the documentary format -- where the moves aren't, nor could they possibly be, choreographed -- can a viewer truly appreciate the whiplash bursts of adrenaline known as krumping. Even those who think they understand the scene may ...more