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Filmed during his "Black Album" era, Jay-Z looks back on his career as one of rap music's most successful emcees and entrepreneurs.Filmed during his "Black Album" era, Jay-Z looks back on his career as one of rap music's most successful emcees and entrepreneurs.Filmed during his "Black Album" era, Jay-Z looks back on his career as one of rap music's most successful emcees and entrepreneurs.
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- 1 nomination
Photos
Fonzworth Bentley
- Self
- (as Farnsworth Bentley)
Sean 'Diddy' Combs
- Self
- (as Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe Madison Square Garden, where the film was shot, was under common ownership with distributor Paramount from 1977-94, when it was sold by the studio's then new owners Viacom.
- ConnectionsReferenced in From Marcy to Madison Square: The Story Behind 'Fade to Black' (2004)
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A good, authentic look at the man in his prime-- great live footage
It's nearly impossible not to get caught up in the insane energy of the live performance scenes in this movie (from Jay as well as the audience, who were in love with the world, Jay, and whatever joker standing next to them in the rows out there too), and the man is obviously at his peak here. It didn't feel like a super-cohesive film, but that doesn't bug me too much. I could watch hours of him doing his thing in the studio and Rick Rubin and whoever else is there just sort of marveling at Jay's self-proclaimed "Rainman" routine of just sounding everything out until the puzzle pieces fit. He is not my favorite hip hop artist by a long shot but he is sure as hell interesting, and this film needed to be made, if not for anything else other than posterity. I've watched Fade to Black a good dozen times over the years. I like the authenticity of this film a LOT more than the recent documentary, Made In America-- which was amusing as hell and I loved the collection of artists, but many of the montage bits and segues were pretty pretentious.
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- Country of origin
- Official site
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- Also known as
- Затемнение
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $728,921
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $449,331
- Nov 7, 2004
- Gross worldwide
- $755,231
- Runtime1 hour 49 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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