Film Club: One to One, John & Yoko (15)

From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald, One to One: John & Yoko is a revelatory inside-look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono's life in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s, featuring music from John and Yoko's only full-length concerts, newly remixed and produced by Sean Ono Lennon.

On August 30, 1972, in New York City, John Lennon played his only full-length show after leaving The Beatles, the One to One Benefit Concert, a rollicking, dazzling performance from him and Yoko Ono.

By 1971 the couple was newly arrived in the United States, living in a tiny apartment in Greenwich Village and watching a huge amount of American television.  The film uses a riotous mélange of American TV to conjure the era through what the two would have been seeing on the tube: the Vietnam War, The Price is Right, Nixon, Coca-Cola ads, Cronkite and The Waltons.  As they experience a year of love and transformation in the US, John and Yoko begin to change their approach to protest, ultimately leading to the One to One concert, which was inspired by a Geraldo Rivera exposé they watched on TV.

Filmed in a meticulously faithful reproduction of the NYC apartment, the duo shared, One to One: John & Yoko also includes a wealth of never-before-seen material, including home movies and numerous phone call recordings of John and Yoko to offer a unique take on a seminal time in the lives of one of music's most famous couples.