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One to One: John & Yoko

One to One: John & Yoko

Kevin Macdonald
United Kingdom
2024
101 min
Dutch Premiere
Signed
Synopsis

In 1971-72 New York, John Lennon and Yoko Ono took a unique approach to making the world a better place. They spent 18 months in an apartment in Greenwich Village meeting with kindred spirits and watching lots of TV—which Lennon called “a window on the world.”

Their apartment was recreated for this film, so it feels like we are sitting next to Lennon and Ono watching TV, fast forwarding around the world in that era. The newsflashes—dominated by the Vietnam war—and clips from talk shows, commercials and films bring the 1970s very close to home. Unique are the couple’s previously unseen home videos, and phone calls presented as contemporary WhatsApp conversations.

The ultimate outcome of all this TV watching was the successful benefit concert One to One, for children with physical and learning disabilities. The two shows on 30 August 1972 would be Lennon’s only full-length concerts between the last publicized Beatles concert in 1966 and his death in 1980. A vibrant, musical, emotionally moving, and disturbingly topical visual journey through an exceptionally turbulent time.

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Credits
101 min
color / black and white
DCP
Spoken languages: English
Director
    Kevin Macdonald
    Kevin Macdonald
Co-director
    Sam Rice-Edwards
    Sam Rice-Edwards
Production
    Peter Worsley
    Peter Worsley
Co-production
    Alice Webb for Mercury Studios
    Alice Webb for Mercury Studios
Executive producer
    Steve Condie for Mercury Studios,
    Marc Robinson for Mercury Studios,
    David Joseph for Universal Music Group,
    Brad Pitt for Plan B Productions,
    Dede Gardner for Plan B Productions,
    Jeremy Kleiner for Plan B Productions
    Steve Condie for Mercury Studios,
    Marc Robinson for Mercury Studios,
    David Joseph for Universal Music Group,
    Brad Pitt for Plan B Productions,
    Dede Gardner for Plan B Productions,
    Jeremy Kleiner for Plan B Productions
Cinematography
    David Katznelson
    David Katznelson
Editing
    Sam Rice-Edwards
    Sam Rice-Edwards
Sound Design
    Glenn Freemantle
    Glenn Freemantle
Music
    John Lennon,
    Yoko Ono
    John Lennon,
    Yoko Ono
World Sales
    Cinetic Media
    Cinetic Media
Screening copy
    Altitude Rights Consultancy
    Altitude Rights Consultancy

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