One to One – John & Yoko

Directed by Kevin Macdonald, Sam Rice-Edwards

Starring Yoko Ono, John Lennon

Special screening of the acclaimed new documentary One to One: John & Yoko. Featuring a special pre-show acoustic performance of John Lennon classics from Paul Whelan.

Sun Jun 22 at 3:30pm (doors 3pm)

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 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.

“Unearthing fascinating archival materials to provide newfound insight into one of popular culture’s most iconic couples, One to One helps audiences get know John and Yoko better than they could previously imagine.” – Rotten Tomatoes

“Lennon and sometimes Ono are exhilaratingly present in “One to One: John & Yoko,” a documentary flooded with music and feeling that revisits a narrow if eventful period in the couple’s life.” – New York Times

“It’s the movie you didn’t think you’d want that turns out to be one of the few recent Beatles products you’ll need.” – Rolling Stone