“It’s the closest thing to witnessing a miracle.” That’s how Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers described Amazing Grace, the new, long-awaited Aretha Franklin documentary from Alan Elliott and Oscar winner Sydney Pollack.
Travers gave the film — which is centered around two days in 1972 when Franklin and the Southern California Community Choir sang at Watts’ New Temple Missionary Baptist Church — a perfect rating, and the Listen Up Film Series is giving Bay area music buffs a chance to see if the movie lives up to the hype. If you haven’t experienced the power of black church music, then you better leave the house on a Monday and get blessed.
Seats are free, but you must register in advance.
Listen Up Film Series: Amazing Grace. Mon. Aug. 12, 6:30 p.m. Free with Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg. daddykool.com.
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This article appears in Aug 8-15, 2019.