“We are on our way. . . . We’re on our journey home!” So declares the silver-clad choir, in buoyant triplets, upon entering the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, in Watts, Los Angeles. Theirs is ...

A time capsule that’s as fresh and powerful an experience as it must have been when recorded live in Watts in 1972, Amazing Grace is arguably one of the year’s most-anticipated films arriving after ...

But “Amazing Grace” is not the greatest hits concert film you’d expect. “Amazing Grace” documents the two nights in January 1972, 47 years ago, that Franklin, at the height of her youthful fame, ...

A massive rookie mistake — director Sydney Pollack and his 16-millimeter film crew forgot to use a clapperboard synchronizing the sound with the image for each new take —delivered roughly 20 hours of ...

Aretha Franklin was at the peak of her career and her creative powers when her gospel album “Amazing Grace” was released in 1972. (It sold more than two million copies and became her best-selling ...

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 sessions ...

A movie camera can capture a performer’s soul. The lens moves beyond the notes that may be sung, the mood a performer may be creating, the people that may be reached. A well-placed camera, with the ...

A massive rookie mistake — director Sydney Pollack and his 16-millimeter film crew forgot to use a clapperboard synchronizing the sound with the image for each new take — delivered roughly 20 hours of ...