This Friday, the highly anticipated documentary Amy opens nationwide but in the latest clip, viewers can watch the "Rehab" singer belt out a raw version of "Back to Black" in the studio without any instrumental assistance. The 2006 recording session in New York with producer Mark Ronson captures the essence and true talent of Amy Winehouse, acting as one of the film's most awe-inspiring moments.
"It was just one of those serendipitous things. I just caught her at that magic moment, and she was just ready to get it going," Ronson said in Amy. "That's why I couldn't understand what everyone else was saying about this procrastinating, troubled artist."
"I had these feelings, these words floating around in me," Winehouse explained in the latest clip. "When you write a song, you have to remember how you felt. You might have to remember what the weather was like. You might have to remember what his neck smelled like. You have to remember all of it."
Director Asif Kapadia, who admitted to Rolling Stone that he stumbled upon the moving "Back to Black" clip by accident, crafted the film with home videos and archival footage. "That came to us purely by chance," Kapadia said. "We heard a rumor that someone was filming during the session, and we eventually found it." The film details the struggles and tribulations of the singer who died at the young age of just 27 years old.
In the midst of the negative familial response surrounding Amy, Ronson only exemplified his full support. "The really respectful thing about the movie is you are reminded why she was famous in the first place - she was a genius, that's the stuff even I can forget," Ronson said. "I forget that when I played her the piano chords to 'Back To Black,' she wrote the lyrics in an hour. I was blown away; people just don't write lyrics like that any more."
Since it's July 3 debut, Back to Black found its way back onto the top 40 charts and the film has broken UK box office records, notes NME. Amy's father Mitch Winehouse and former fiancé Reg Traviss are in talks of creating their own documentary on the late musician after Amy portrays of Mitch "in the worst possible light" as an absent father. He further admitted to demanding that certain clips be edited out of the original film.
