My Life In Movies
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My Life in Movies: The Rapper Nas on His Childhood Love of 'Popeye' and Current Love for Woody Allen
Nas: Time Is Illmatic, however, is the first high-profile rap doc to set its sights on the creation of a single album, in this case Nas’s seminal 1994 street poetry classic Illmatic. To celebrate release of the big screen Illmatic, the 41-year-old Nas (born Nasir Jones), who has also crossed over into acting with appearances in films like Belly and Black Nativity, told us about the movies that have affected and inspired him throughout the course of his life and career. The VHS tape you wore ou
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My Life in Movies: Mark Duplass on Making Out to 'Roger Rabbit' and Weeping to 'Titanic'
Writer-director-actor Mark Duplass has become one of film’s top indie renaissance men, starting with the 2005 Sundance breakout The Puffy Chair, and continuing this week with the buzzy (and very mysterious) The One I Love. In the film, which opens Friday, Duplass and Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men) star as a couple whose weekend retreat to save their marriage goes to very unexpected places.
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My Life in Movies: Brit Marling on 'Princess Bride,' 'City of God' and More
Over the past few years, Brit Marling has established herself as a reliable presence in the world of independent film, with a string of projects that wow Sundance audiences before making their way into art-house screens across the country. Add to that list this year’s I Origins, Mike Cahill’s clever follow-up to Earth that pairs Marling with Michael Pitt playing molecular biologists on the cusp of a game-changing evolutionary discovery. Marling, 30, who co-wrote Another Earth, Sound of My Voic
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Angelina Jolie: The Movies That Define Me
Angelina Jolie vividly remembers seeing Sleeping Beauty for the first time as a child, and being awed by the horn-hatted villain Maleficent. “It was almost like seeing Marlene Dietrich for the first time,” Jolie said.
