An expansive and revelatory inside look at the 18 months John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent living in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s, Oscar®-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald and Co-director / Editor Sam Rice-Edwards’ ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO delivers an immersive cinematic experience that brings to life electrifying, never-before-seen material and newly restored footage of Lennon’s only full-length, post-Beatles concert. With mind-blowing remastered audio overseen by their son, Sean Ono Lennon, the film is a seismic revelation that will challenge pre-existing notions of the iconic couple. 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. Macdonald’s riveting documentary takes that legendary musical event and uses it as the starting point to explore eighteen defining months in the lives of John and Yoko. 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 screen: the Vietnam War, The Price is Right, Nixon, Coca-Cola ads, Cronkite, 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 offers a bold new take on a seminal time in the lives of two of history’s most influential artists.  Co-director / Editor Sam Rice-Edwards joins us for a conversation on how he and co-director Kevin Macdonald, with the help of Music Producer Sean Lennon, were able to pull together this multi-faceted story that jumps of the screen by providing in-depth context to the complicated lives of John and Yoko during a tumultuous time in New York City and beyond.

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“The medium, surely, has [John Lennon] well covered already. But Macdonald and Rice-Edwards have managed to find and mine a rich source of material, tightly tucked away amid all the other wildcat wells. – Xan Brooks, Guardian

“The best tribute of all in Kevin MacDonald’s stirring celebration of the 18 months that the singer/songwriter and his partner spent living in a two-bedroom loft in Greenwich Village is that it’s never overworked.” – Stephen Salto, Moveable Feast

“The film employs a channel-flipping aesthetic to switch between the various archive and concert videos, a smart decision that gives the film a strong sense of pace” – Matthew Turner, NME (New Musical Express)

“One to One is a reminder of the future we kids imagined in 1972. It’s also an act of encouragement. Lennon put it well when he told a concert audience, “OK, so flower power didn’t work. So what? We start again.” – Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter

“[John Lennon] truly was a walking contradiction… All of that ripples through “One to One,” making it the rare rock doc that’s a must-see.” Owen Gleiberman, Variety

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