Amazing Grace (2018)
First screened in April 2019
Directors: Sydney Pollack and Alan Elliott. Documentary record of Aretha Franklin's legendary performance at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972. Twitter Capsule:
Cinema preserves the miracle of Franklin but can't really illuminate its mystery. Her aloofness itself fascinates.
VOR:③
Long suppressed by Franklin, but it's hard to say why. Not too elucidating, and certainly modest in form, but it's still a valuable, curious document.
