Amy - 2015 - 7/10

Two hour documentary of jazz singer, Amy Winehouse.
Creators unearthed rare materials, including 14 year old Winehouse singing for a friend’s birthday.
Her phenomenal vocal gifts are train-wrecked by substance abuse and incomprehensible reliance on toxic males
Can you say boyfriend (later husband)? Can you say estranged father? Latter reappeared after her success.
Doc brilliantly captures the thrill of her dizzying ascent, yet it is also painful, excruciating at times, to watch her make colossal errors of judgment that led to her death.
An argument was postulated that had Miss Winehouse stuck with more “Frank" oriented material, stayed in the Jazz orbit, she might still be alive and releasing. Mind you, I listen to a lot of current jazz chanteuses. They sing for ecstatic, cult audiences. And theory or no theory, “Back In Black" was a monster, and whether she was prepared or not, Winehouse found herself riding the tiger of fame.
Extraordinarily well done, though one viewing will probably be more than enough for most.