Aretha Franklin Blocks Screening of 'Amazing Grace' at Telluride

In 1972, a year after their massive hit "Woodstock," Warner Bros set out to produce an Aretha Franklin performance documentary. Producer Alan Elliott completed the film that was shot by Sydney Pollack live over two nights at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles back when Franklin was recording her classic gospel album "Amazing Grace," her biggest career album. Pollack filmed with four 16 mm cameras, but due to difficulties syncing the footage, the movie was shelved. Pollack wrote a letter in 1998 to Aretha Franklin about wanting to finish the documentary, which after he died in 2008, Elliot made his passion project. Finally...

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