greenovation
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I have yet to see the shows but am looking so forward to it. I love the trailers
🎬 One To One: John & Yoko - new documentary directed by Kevin Macdonald
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Madeline Bocaro
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I was at the One to One concert in 1972 when I was fourteen years old!
Here is my Box of Smile from Yoko, which she re-created to give away that afternoon.
Here is my story…
https://madelinex.com/2017/08/30/john-yoko-live/
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‘An incredible echo of today’: Kevin Macdonald on his film about John Lennon and Yoko Ono
The director speaks about his documentary exploring the couple’s life after moving to New York in 1971
Carol-Anne Lennie
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I ventured into London to see this yesterday at the British Film Institute on the South Bank. It was heartening that NFT 1, the complex's largest room was almost full at midday on a Wednesday. Also heartening - I didn't see a single phone screen light up in front of me the entire time. The film was gripping and any temptation to try and sneak a photo of the screen was rightly repressed. The remastered audio for the One to One show segments was incredible - John's voice really is the star here and fans will fall in love with him all over again. I loved the way the audience applause in the arena enveloped you from every side of the room. And it is a long-held ambition of mine to obtain one of the audience tambourines, also audible. One day!
The recreation of Bank Street was spot on, the camera calmly surveying its contents throughout the film. It's this sort of attention to detail, along with the pace and editing that lift this way above your average music documentary and will surely be influential on many works to come. You are right there with John and Yoko, in the political and cultural whirlwind. Little wonder Yoko wanted to escape the relative peace of Tittenhurst (alluded to here) and get back into the thick of things.
It is hard to discuss the footage here without spoilers and am mindful that only a relatively small number of people have seen the film so I won't go into too much detail here. I will just say, there is plenty I had not seen before and it is so cleverly structured. Only the most ardent collector or (or bootlegger!) could complain, it's an absolute bounty and I feel privileged to have seen yet more home movies, news footage and archive that was hitherto widely unseen.
The phone calls the Lennons recorded - for their own purposes, whilst the authorities were tapping their phones - turn out to be gold dust here, many funny sequences hingeing on their content. They're both a window into how open and sharp both John and Yoko were and in one case form an entertaining running joke.
You can seek out more detail if you wish from the various long-form previews from The Guardian, Variety, etc. But my advice would be to consume them and then put them to the back of you mind and simply the enjoy the film without prejudice when the opportunity arises. Another cinema run would be great - this film deserves to be seen and enjoyed on the big screen for sure.
And bring a tissue (or two). Just in case.
The recreation of Bank Street was spot on, the camera calmly surveying its contents throughout the film. It's this sort of attention to detail, along with the pace and editing that lift this way above your average music documentary and will surely be influential on many works to come. You are right there with John and Yoko, in the political and cultural whirlwind. Little wonder Yoko wanted to escape the relative peace of Tittenhurst (alluded to here) and get back into the thick of things.
It is hard to discuss the footage here without spoilers and am mindful that only a relatively small number of people have seen the film so I won't go into too much detail here. I will just say, there is plenty I had not seen before and it is so cleverly structured. Only the most ardent collector or (or bootlegger!) could complain, it's an absolute bounty and I feel privileged to have seen yet more home movies, news footage and archive that was hitherto widely unseen.
The phone calls the Lennons recorded - for their own purposes, whilst the authorities were tapping their phones - turn out to be gold dust here, many funny sequences hingeing on their content. They're both a window into how open and sharp both John and Yoko were and in one case form an entertaining running joke.
You can seek out more detail if you wish from the various long-form previews from The Guardian, Variety, etc. But my advice would be to consume them and then put them to the back of you mind and simply the enjoy the film without prejudice when the opportunity arises. Another cinema run would be great - this film deserves to be seen and enjoyed on the big screen for sure.
And bring a tissue (or two). Just in case.
Julia Stanisławska
So I sing a song of love
I can't wait to see it.‘An incredible echo of today’: Kevin Macdonald on his film about John Lennon and Yoko Ono
The director speaks about his documentary exploring the couple’s life after moving to New York in 1971www.theguardian.com
CynCP
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My wonderful husband just got this tambourine for me for my birthday! I would love to see the documentary when it is available in the U.S.
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That is a great gift!! I love it! Congrats!
‘One to One’ documentary offers a deeper look at John and Yoko
Part of SFFILM’s Doc Stories, the film highlights the creative process behind two of the most iconic artist-activists of their time.By Laura Stein
Arecent spate of documentary projects on the Beatles and its members suggests that 50 years had to pass before we could address them as artists rather than icons.
I missed Beatlemania in real time but fell in love with their music post break-up. Growing up, I attended Beatles conventions, read Beatles books, and consumed all the Beatles-related media I could find. This work rarely examined their artistry and influence in depth. I mainly learned that the band was a cultural force with musicians that were each larger-than-life icons. We get a closer look at their creative work in recent cinema:
The superlative Get Back by Peter Jackson highlights the collaborative process that birthed the Let It Be album, while the astounding McCartney 3,2,1 shows producer Rick Rubin and Paul McCartney exploring the musical choices and inspirations behind specific McCartney compositions. This Thursday, SFFILM will screen another entrant into this widening arena of Beatles documentaries on the opening night of their Doc Stories program, One to One: John and Yoko.
One to One is directed by Kevin Macdonald and edited by Sam Rice-Edwards. McDonald is a seasoned filmmaker, with films on Whitney Houston, Bob Marley, and Mick Jagger, as well as the Academy Award winning documentary One Day in September (1999).
In One to One, Macdonald and Rice-Edwards recreate the world John and Yoko inhabited over an 18-month period in 1971–1972 following the Beatles’ breakup. Their film is a portrait of two artist-activists who aimed to influence their politically turbulent times before eventually retreating to a more domestically quiet life (skipping over their temporary separation in 1973–1974).
I liked how One to One changed up the approach to concert films. While most focus on the spectacle of the show, the star power of the performers, and backstage moments, One to One instead treats the concert as a portal into John and Yoko’s musical, personal, and political milieu. It gave me a broader frame for considering how these facets of their life interconnected.
Musically, the film revolves around the last full concert performance Lennon ever gave. We see clips from this benefit concert staged in Madison Square Garden in August of 1972, with Ono often performing alongside Lennon. Then in their lives, we follow John and Yoko as they emigrate to New York City, move into a small loft apartment, take up with activists and countercultural figures like Jerry Rubin and Allen Ginsburg, plead for reconnection with her young daughter, fight potential deportation, and undergo primal scream therapy.
Politically, they leverage their celebrity to publicize countercultural views, generate media attention, and apply pressure on the powers that be. They advocate for the release from jail of writers John Sinclair or Angela Davis, criticize the government’s response to the Attica State Prison uprising of 1971, and plan a tour designed to serve as a musical liberation front for social change.
One to One is also a documentary for a hyperlinked generation, with its rapid flow of evocatively edited sound and image. Macdonald and Edwards compile archival footage from many sources, including concert footage, news reports, television talk shows, radio interviews, and advertisements, along with the personal home movies and recorded phone calls of John and Yoko. The archival materials add context to the politically topical songs performed in concert, many of which appeared on the album, Some Time in New York City (1972). This footage helps explain the people and events referenced in these songs.
The editing often juxtaposes clips from the news and entertainment media of the time, placing footage of Attica State next to the Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour or the Vietnam War next to jubilant ads for coke or calculators. This counterpunctual editing recreates the 1970s media environment, suggesting irreconcilable rifts between mainstream America and the counterculture, and conveying the chaotic and divisive mood of the times.
Not surprisingly, the film also asks viewers to reconsider public perceptions of Yoko Ono, who was probably the most vilified woman in rock and roll in the 1970s. Yoko describes the vitriol she faced in England when the Beatles broke up and efforts to sideline her as a woman and artist. But Lennon regarded her as an artistic equal during their life together, and that relationship is evident.
One to One offers a tonic for public perceptions of John and Yoko in the early 1970s, some influenced by Jan Wenner’s (of Rolling Stone magazine) book Lennon Remembers and The National Lampoon’s Lennon parody, Magical Misery Tour. The film gives us a deeper and more complex context for the concert, their music, and their work as artists and activists at a transitional moment.
// One to One: John and Yoko screens at 7p.m. at Vogue Theatre. Director Kevin Macdonald is expected to attend. SFFILM Doc Stories runs from Oct 17–20. https://sffilm.org/event/one-to-one-john-yoko/
Laura Stein is a San Francisco-based writer.
‘One to One’ documentary offers a deeper look at John and Yoko
Part of SFFILM’s Doc Stories, the film highlights the creative process behind two of the most iconic artist-activists of their time.
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Georgescrackerbox
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cant wait!
greenovation
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There has to be an audio release of this remastered concert, no??
guinigro
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So far we haven't had any idea if this is a possibility, just a few songs from the show in the documentary
nobodytoldme
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IDFA Amsterdam screenings:
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One to One: John & Yoko (2024) | IDFA Festival
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...
Beatlesblogger
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Yeah. I think it’s a case of cross your fingers but don’t hold your breath.
Doc Talk Podcast Hops Into Time Machine To Explore 1970s Idealism, Radicalism With Makers Of ‘One To One: John & Yoko’ And ‘Suburban Fury’
by Matthew Carey, Deadline.Nostalgia tends to tint our view of the past a rose-colored hue, casting a glow over intense conflict and deep angst, as if those sentiments weren’t fundamental to the experience of people alive in earlier times.
In the case of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the rose-colored (granny) glasses might be appropriate, at least when looking back at the early 1970s when the famous couple moved to New York City and took up residence in a very modest apartment in Greenwich Village. That’s the era examined in One to One: John & Yoko, the acclaimed new documentary directed by Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald.
The filmmaker joins the latest episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to discuss his film and the burst of idealistic energy John and Yoko felt in their adopted home. But around John and Yoko swirled protests over the Vietnam War, political conflict over the emerging women’s rights and gay rights movements, and a sense that the feeling of endless possibility unleashed in the 1960s was quickly dissipating.
We talked with Macdonald at the 10th anniversary of Doc Stories in San Francisco, the prestigious festival put on by SFFILM. At Doc Stories, we also spoke with director Robinson Devor and producer Jason Reid, makers of another remarkable documentary set in the turbulent early ‘70s, Suburban Fury, which held only its second screening ever after premiering at the New York Film Festival.
Doc Talk Podcast Hops Into Time Machine To Explore 1970s Idealism, Radicalism With Makers Of ‘One To One: John & Yoko’ And ‘Suburban Fury’
Kevin Macdonald of One to One: John & Yoko and Robinson Devor of Suburban Fury discuss their documentaries on Deadline's Doc Talk Podcast
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Brian Of Nazareth
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@Good Dog Nigel I may be a little slow here, but, is this being released for the general public?
Here’s what he told me last time I asked about this:
https://forum.citizenofnutopia.com/...entary-directed-by-kevin-macdonald.45/post-71
Brian Of Nazareth
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Don’t mention it
