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Perfection is rarely achieved in movies, but this heaven-sent concert doc hits the sweet spot. Over two days in January 1972, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin — she was 29 at the time — sweeps into the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts in front of a congregation and testifies to God in song. The blessed thing took nearly half a century to come out because director Sydney Pollack failed to sync the image with the sound.
“I’m frankly surprised there wasn’t more focus on this on an industry-wide level much earlier to avoid trying to put guardrails around this in a contract-negotiation setting with the clock ticking and emotions running high,” she said. “I would’ve thought there would have been people from SAG and DGA and all that on some kind of high-level AI working group.”
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