Fade to Black Movie Review 2004

Jay-Z's brilliant goodbye letter to the public eye. What's touted as the final concert of his career is magnificently captured in an exploding Madison Square Gardens in November of 2003, along with studio time during the making of "The Black Album." Jay-Z waxes ill-osophic about the methods to his badness, gets a haircut, and scowls as his posse bumrush his ColecoVision, dropping furious rhymes everywhere he turns. The entire affair is a little too long, but the energy carries well.

Distribution

Paramount Home Video, 5555 Melrose Ave., 5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038, Phone: (323)956-5000, URL: http://www.paramount.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on DVD
Running time 109 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Documentary Films, Music--Rap, Biography: Music

Cinematography

Scott Lochmus, Theron Smith, Paul Bozymowski, Luke McCoubrey

Director

Michael Warren

Other

David Patterson, Michael Warren, Jim Helton, Jonah Moran, Ron Pantane, Adam Zuckerman

Producer

Bob Ezrin, Rich Kleiman, Justin Wilkes, @radical.media, Marcy, Paramount Classics