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Amazing Grace | Limited release on Friday, April 5; goes wide April 19
Like a Stefon sketch, Amazing Grace had everything: Aretha Franklin in her prime, singing the music she was born with, directed by Sydney Pollack immediately after Jeremiah Johnson, Mick Jagger making a cameo, and what amounted to the best-selling live-gospel album of all time. What it didn't have was a clapper board, which means the visual components of Franklin's two-night performance at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church were never properly synced to the landmark audio ... until now. Nearly 50 years and multiple lawsuits later, Amazing Grace hits theaters as both a ghost video (reportedly one of the reasons Franklin had blocked it) and living artifact of one of the 20th century's most revered performers.
— Tony
Like a Stefon sketch, Amazing Grace had everything: Aretha Franklin in her prime, singing the music she was born with, directed by Sydney Pollack immediately after Jeremiah Johnson, Mick Jagger making a cameo, and what amounted to the best-selling live-gospel album of all time. What it didn't have was a clapper board, which means the visual components of Franklin's two-night performance at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church were never properly synced to the landmark audio ... until now. Nearly 50 years and multiple lawsuits later, Amazing Grace hits theaters as both a ghost video (reportedly one of the reasons Franklin had blocked it) and living artifact of one of the 20th century's most revered performers.
— Tony