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The movie is a period piece, but perhaps recent events will at least make you understand why anyone bothered to make "Amazing Grace and Chuck" 30 years ago. If you're interesting in seeing it, you ...
Deadlines passed as the Amazing Grace album came out in June 1972, selling millions with no synergy. In August, Warner Bros. officially wrote off and shelved the movie.
“Amazing Grace” is a movie worth seeing and re-seeing and re-seeing again, a testament to the Queen of Soul at the height of her powers, live, in full color, in rich sound, resplendent.
In early 1972, Aretha Franklin recorded “Amazing Grace,” a collection of gospel classics performed over two nights at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. The legendary ...
Amazing Grace will not enter the pantheon of concert films — it’s somewhat shapeless as a movie, and gives little sense of emotional insight into the performer.
Amazing Grace is an Aretha Franklin concert movie from Sydney Pollack that was never released on schedule in 1972 but is finally available to stream on Hulu.
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 ...
He's also one of the producers of "Amazing Grace," a long-delayed concert documentary about the making of Aretha Franklin's landmark 1972 gospel album of the same name.
Lacking that, finishing “Amazing Grace” became a technical nightmare. Additionally, for reasons that were never entirely clear, Franklin herself didn’t want the film released.
Al Sharpton and others will be on hand as "Amazing Grace" premieres at the DIA on Monday — what would have been the Queen of Soul's 77th birthday.