Dogwoof Announces The Release Date For Kevin Macdonald’s One To One: John & Yoko
Carl Roberts
Dogwoof announces the UK release date for Kevin Macdonald’s revelatory and electrifying documentary, One To One: John & Yoko.
Following critical acclaim at its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Dogwoof is excited to announce that *One to One: John & Yoko* will have exclusive previews in IMAX® on April 9th and 10th. The film will then open in UK cinemas nationwide on April 11th.
Directed by renowned British director Kevin Macdonald (Whitney, The Mauritanian). And co-directed and edited by Sam Rice-Edwards (Meet Me in the Bathroom, The Rescue). 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 both compelling and bittersweet. Challenging pre-existing notions of the iconic couple.
PREMISE
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 at Madison Square Garden, 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 had 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, inspired by a Geraldo Rivera exposé they watched on television. 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.
BEHIND THE DOCUMENTARY
ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO is directed by Kevin Macdonald. Edited & co-directed by Sam Rice-Edwards and produced by Peter Worsley, Kevin Macdonald and Alice Webb. With Marc Robinson, David Joseph, Steve Condie, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner as executive producers.
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