A behind-the-scenes documentary about the recording of Aretha Franklin's best-selling album finally sees the light of day more than four decades after the original footage was shot.
Direction
Sydney Pollack's lost footage resurrected with jaw-dropping intimacy.
Sound
Raw, unmixed vocals that humble every modern pop star.
Production
Technical disaster became accidental masterpiece through sheer will.
Director
Alan Elliott
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The original 1972 shoot was abandoned because the director forgot to sync the sound—a mistake that kept the footage locked in a vault for decades.
This was recorded at the same church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached his final sermon; Aretha literally sang on hallowed ground.
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