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Central Cinema - Amazing Grace, Aretha Franklin

Location: Central Cinema Inc
Region: Alexandra
Dates: Wed, 9 October 2019 @ 7.30pm.

  • Central Cinema - Amazing Grace, Aretha Franklin

Brilliantly capturing a remarkable performer near the peak of her prodigious power, Amazing Grace is a thrilling must-watch documentary for Aretha Franklin
Critics Consensus, Rotten Tomatoes

Amazing Grace depicts the 1972 concert when Franklin performed with James Cleveland and The Southern California Community Choir at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles.

Warner Bros Records hired the late Sydney Pollack to film the show over two nights as a companion piece to the recording of a live album of the same name, which went on to become the biggest-selling album of Franklin’s career.

The film remained unseen for decades, because Pollack forgot to use clapperboards, which made it almost impossible to sync sound to image. After Pollack died in 2008, Alan Elliot took over the film and produced with Joe Boyd, Rob Johnson, Sabrina Owens, Tirrell D. Whittley, Jerry Wexler, and Joseph Woolf.

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Location

Central Cinema Inc

21 Centennial Avenue,

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