But there’s a shot of Aretha Franklin in “Amazing Grace” that might be the greatest image of a black woman that I’ve ever seen in an American movie. It’s just a medium close-up, straight on, of her at ...

A massive rookie mistake — director Sydney Pollack and his 16-millimeter film crew forgot to use a clapperboard synchronizing the sound with the image for each new take — delivered roughly 20 hours of ...

It once was lost, but now is found. Well, not lost, exactly. But for 46 years, there seemed to be precious little hope that "Amazing Grace," the documentary filmed during the live recording sessions ...

“Amazing Grace” is the 46-year-old making-of documentary Aretha Franklin didn’t want you to see. Well, she had conditions for you to be able to see it. They were idiosyncratic, comically tough to ...

In 1972, the late and beyond measure, Aretha Franklin, landed in Los Angeles' New Temple Missionary Baptist Church to record her live (double-platinum) double-album, Amazing Grace. And while the album ...

Singer Aretha Franklin has won a temporary injunction to stop a documentary about her live album Amazing Grace from being released. The film was to premiere Friday. Hours before it was scheduled to ...

A riveting trailer for the upcoming Aretha Franklin documentary, Amazing Grace, was released this week and shows the soul songstress in perfect form. The documentary follows the story leading up to a ...

Alexander Hamilton, who died Jan. 28 at age 77, was a conductor and arranger who was able to add “movie star” to his credits in the last years of his life. His work on Aretha Franklin‘s 1972 “Amazing ...

The producer of the Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace has agreed to a 30-day ban on showing the film. The move follows legal disputes over the picture, which resulted in an emergency 14-day ...

*The Telluride Film Festival says it will screen the documentary “Amazing Grace” tonight (Sept. 4), despite a last minute lawsuit from Aretha Franklin aiming to stop it, reports TheWrap. According to ...

(Reuters) - Singer Aretha Franklin on Friday won a court order blocking the Telluride Film Festival from screening "Amazing Grace," a film based predominantly on footage from her 1972 concert at a Los ...