Forty-three years ago, director Sydney Pollack filmed the recording of Aretha Franklin’s seminal gospel album Amazing Grace with the intention of making a documentary about it. But various technical ...

Aretha Franklin is taking a very hands-on approach with the movie being made about her life: She approved a story treatment based on her memoir, has commissioned a script, and is negotiating with ...

“Amazing Grace” is a film that chronicles a landmark performance the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin, gave of the eponymous double album at a Los Angeles church in 1972. For years, it has been seen by ...

“Amazing Grace” is the 46-year-old making-of documentary Aretha Franklin didn’t want you to see. Well, she had conditions for you to be able to see it. They were idiosyncratic, comically tough to ...

The 1976 movie Sparkle follows the troubles and triumphs of a trio of singers — based loosely on The Supremes — trying to make it in the soul-music world of the 1960s. Sparkle was the film debut of ...