The new documentary lets followers into the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono with a brand new assortment of recorded telephone calls from John.
Magnolia Pictures has launched the trailer for One to One: John & Yoko, which takes an intimate take a look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono as they settle into a brand new life in New York City whereas associating with the anti-war motion and being focused by the U.S. authorities. The documentary is directed by Kevin Macdonald and produced by Peter Worsley. Sam Rice-Edwards would co-direct and edit the function. Macdonald produces the movie with Alice Webb and the manager producers on board embrace Sean Ono Lennon, Marc Robinson, David Joseph, Steve Condie, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner.
The official synopsis reads,
“An expansive and revelatory inside take a look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s life in Greenwich Village within the early Seventies, ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO delivers an immersive cinematic expertise that brings to life electrifying, never-before-seen materials and newly restored footage of John and Yoko’s solely full-length live performance. Featuring mind-blowing music newly remixed and produced by Sean Ono Lennon, the movie is a seismic revelation that may problem pre-existing notions of the enduring couple.
On August 30, 1972, in New York City, John Lennon performed his solely full-length present after leaving The Beatles, the One to One profit live performance at Madison Square Garden, a rollicking, dazzling efficiency from him and Yoko Ono. Oscar®-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald’s riveting documentary takes that legendary musical occasion and makes use of it as the place to begin to discover eighteen defining months within the lives of John and Yoko. By 1971 the couple was newly arrived within the United States— residing in a tiny residence in Greenwich Village and watching an enormous quantity of American tv. The movie makes use of a riotous mélange of American TV to conjure the period by way of what the 2 would have been seeing on the display screen: the Vietnam War, The Price is Right, Nixon, Coca-Cola advertisements, Cronkite, The Waltons. As they expertise a 12 months of affection and transformation within the US, John and Yoko start to alter their method to protest — finally resulting in the One to One live performance, which was impressed by a Geraldo Rivera exposé they watched on TV. Filmed in a meticulously trustworthy replica of the NYC residence the duo shared, ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO gives a daring new tackle a seminal time within the lives of two of historical past’s most influential artists.”
Our Chris Bumbray loved the movie at Sundance, and stated in his review, “To be sure, McDonald (who also directed superb documentaries about Whitney Houston and Bob Marley) and Rice-Edwards’s doc is not for the uninitiated. If you only know the basics of Lennon’s life and career, further research is warranted before digging into this. But, for his fans (and lord knows I’m one), this is another essential documentary about one of the defining talents of the twentieth century.”
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