'Amazing Grace', 47 years after it was made, means audiences at last will see the Queen of Soul’s transcendent masterpiece. Christopher Wilson: In 1970s Detroit, Aretha Franklin’s masterpiece Amazing Grace, the best-selling gospel album of all time, was the background music of my life for everything from house cleaning to homework. So, I couldn’t have been more thrilled to attend the DOC NYC festival last November and be among the first to see the new film Amazing Grace, which chronicles the two-day, live-recording session at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles in January 1972. The film screened in exclusive one-week engagements last month in Los Angeles and New York City, but thankfully, the distributor Neon is making plans for other screening events in 2019. Full article : 'Aretha Franklin’s Decades-Old Documentary Finally Comes to Theaters in 2019' By Christopher Wilson via SMITHSONIAN.COM Aretha Franklin's Decades-Old Documentary ...
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