One to One: John & Yoko
Guests Expected
Director Kevin Macdonald is expected to attend.
Description
The only full-length concert John Lennon ever performed after leaving The Beatles was a charity concert for the children of Willowbrook Institution, an event he hosted with his partner Yoko Ono in 1972. Kevin Macdonald’s evocative new documentary includes heaping doses of the remastered concert footage, but this is not your traditional music film. Focusing on the early 1970s, the story captures Lennon and Ono’s spiritual growth and political radicalization with pulpy text, private phone recordings, home videos, shocking interviews, and of course, music! Eschewing the traditional biopic structure, One to One is a cunningly crafted mixtape flipping through the private moments of the iconic couple’s life alongside seminal cultural moments in our nation’s history. With a thrilling edit from co-director Sam Rice-Edwards, Doc Stories 2025 Opening Night film encapsulates the propulsive energy of a singular artist and captures the national mood, one eerily reminiscent of today’s times.
—Jessie Fairbanks
Kevin Macdonald is a Scottish film director whose films include the Academy Award-winning documentary One Day in September (1999), about the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes; the climbing documentary Touching the Void (2003); the drama The Last King of Scotland (2006); the political thriller State of Play (2009); the Bob Marley documentary Marley (2012); the post-apocalyptic drama How I Live Now (2013); the thriller Black Sea (2014); the Whitney Houston documentary Whitney (2018); and the legal drama film The Mauritanian (2021).
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Film Details
Language English
Year 2024
Runtime 101
Country UK
Director Kevin Macdonald
Executive Producer Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kliener
Producer Peter Worsley, Kevin McDonald, Alice Webb
Editor Sam Rice-Edwards
Cinematographer David Katznelson
Music John Lennon, Yoko Ono
Print Source Mercury Studios
Closed Captions Closed Captions are not available for this film
Audio Description Audio Descriptions are not available for this film
American Sign Language (ASL) Interpretation American Sign Language Interpretation is not currently scheduled for this film
