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Old money vs. new money, forbidden romance, true crime, World War II: Add the Beatles to the list of preeminent fascinations that never go out of fashion. A few years ago, Peter Jackson’s “The Beatles: Get Back” series kicked off a new wave of Beatlemania, which includes last year’s Disney+ documentary “Beatles ’64,” and Sam Mendes’ ambitious four film Beatles project, presently in production and slotted for a 2028 release date. With “Man on the Run,” documentarian Morgan Neville sidesteps any present debate on how many Beatles films are too many, by technically making a post-Beatles documentary, focused on Paul McCartney’s life and career after the group’s breakup in 1970.

But just as the Beatles loomed over everything McCartney did — a montage in the film features a succession of press audio snippets of “Beatles,” “The Beatles,” “Beatles” — “Man on the Run” can’t quite escape but be about...

People are genuinely devastated that Please Don’t Destroy has been destroyed. The comedy trio, made up of Martin Herlihy, Ben Marshall and John Higgins, has helmed digital shorts at Saturday Night Live in recent years. Now though, the group has been splintered into three separate endeavors, with only two of the three remaining at SNL.

Marshall has been moved to the cast, while Herlihy is going to remain on the show as a writer. Higgins will be leaving the show, and says he will be pursuing acting opportunities. “Thank you to everyone who made my time there so special, it made this decision that much harder,” Higgins wrote on Instagram.

I love when a project has a title that seems just a little off but offers a purposeful piece of wordplay.

It doesn’t have to be distractingly askew.

Take, for example, Everywhere Man: The Lives and Times of Peter Asher, the new documentary by Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine (Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song). It’s a title you could skim a dozen times without stopping and going, “Wait, isn’t the idiom ‘life and times’?”

It takes very little time into Geller and Goldfine’s slightly overstuffed and slightly imbalanced documentary to recognize what they’re doing.

Peter Asher is one of several figures who served as the Forrest Gump or Zelig or Chance the Gardener of the counterculture — people who pop up in the background of seemingly every photograph taken across several decades, whose names grace the liner notes of every significant album, whose accomplishments...

In 1995, 15 years after John Lennon's death, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison reunited with their iconic producer, George Martin, to create the ultimate Beatlesdocumentary and release what, at the time, were meant to be the last songs featuring the Fab Four. When Yoko Ono handed them cassette tapes with previously unheard tracks that Lennon had been working on at home, they decided to record them together and release them. That turned into three volumes of The Beatles: Anthology, featuring early takes of classics, early Beatles songs from the late '50s, and the finished Lennon songs, "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love." However, after the astounding success of Peter Jackson's 2021 documentary,...

“Threshold of the Visible” is available via direct subscription or in select stores around the world.While cinema is a photographic art, many subjects and experiences fail to come across on film in the same way that we experience them in life, if they can be reproduced at all. Issue 7 is organized around this very theme of “the unfilmable,” which contributing editor Paolo Cherchi Usai explores in an introductory feature. UFOs, stuntwork, hypnosis, microscopic imaging, and speculative technologies of the future—all arise in these pages. A series of conceptual film scripts by Yoko Ono challenge the reader to make movies in their own imaginations; Guy Maddin shares stunning collages for a film of torrid psychosexual impossibility, and, in an era- and genre-spanning essay, Bilge Ebiri finds room to dream between film frames. Notions of “unfilmability” also prompt ethical questions: filmmaker Ing K recounts (and illustrates) her experiences facing censorship in Thailand.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s most political musical era, when the pair moved to New York City in 1971, is the focus of a massive upcoming box set featuring over 90 unreleased recordings.

Power to the People (Super Deluxe Edition) — releasing via Capitol/UMe on October 10, one day after Lennon would have been 85 — collects recordings from 1969 to 1972, from their 1969 bed-in anthem “Give Peace a Chance” to their One to One concerts at Madison Square Garden, Lennon’s only full shows after leaving the Beatles, and the last concerts Lennon ever performed.

A24 has released the Bring Her Back soundtrack on vinyl.

The score is composed by Cornel Wilczek and also features two tracks from the film: “Untouched” by The Veronicas and “Why” by Yoko Ono.

The album is pressed on “Blood Red” colored vinyl. It’s housed in a jacket designed by Viktor Hammarberg featuring a pool-shaped die-cut.

Priced at $30, the soundtrack is expected to ship in September.

Directed by Danny & Michael Philippou (Talk to Me), the psychological horror film sees a brother and sister uncover a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother.

Sally Hawkins, Billy Barratt, Sora Wong, Jonah Wren Phillips, Sally-Anne Upton, Stephen Phillips, and Mischa Heywood star.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “It’s impressively bold and shocking in the way the directors continue to push horror boundaries and shatter taboos, especially when it comes to kids, ensuring a nail-biting and grueling...

Last week, Jon Bauman paused in the middle of a Zoom call with Rolling Stone, put on his glasses and glanced up at a TV screen in his home. “You and I are right now in the middle of the vote on the Big Ugly Bill,” he said as the Senate cast its ballots for or against Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.” “This is the greatest loss of healthcare in the history of the country. No one’s ever tried to do anything like this before. It’s a horrible idea,...

Larry Charles says that The Dictator wasn’t as good as Borat because Sacha Baron Cohen started taking too much advice from the A-list entertainment business crowd instead of following his comedic instincts. Was Pamela Anderson their Yoko Ono?

As a veteran comedy writer, director and producer, Charles’ fingerprints are all over American humor, but for all his work on seminal projects like Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, his most significant influence on contemporary comedy might just come from his time directing Baron Cohen in Borat, Bruno and The Dictator. The duo’s rebellious, revolutionary, in-your-face style of comedy filmmaking inspired countless other renegade, gonzo comics to go out in the world and test their chaotic characters out on unsuspecting strangers, but according to Charles’ recent comments, following the success of Borat and projects like it, Baron Cohen shifted his focus from transgressive trailblazing to traditional show business Bs years ago.

John Lennon’s post-Beatles odyssey unfolds over 134 minutes under the steady hand of Alan G. Parker (UK cinemas from 2 May 2025). Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade offers a chronological portrait of Lennon’s journey from Liverpool legend to New York exile (and occasional peace protester).

The film opens on a tantalizing “what might have been” prologue—a planned 1981 world tour complete with experimental video projections—before snapping us back to his 1971 arrival at the Dakota. It then guides us through solo landmarks, the so-called Lost Weekend with May Pang, and finally the shadow of his assassination.

Archive footage rubs shoulders with talking heads: journalists, biographers, even chance witnesses. Parker promises an intimate excavation of Lennon’s later layers without slick frills. Rather than a rock-documentary roller-coaster, this is a reflective mosaic. Expect moments of raw recollection beside tick-box chronology. A film that hopes to ask, if Lennon was on borrowed time,...

Amy Poehler's Good Hang comedy podcast is getting serious.

In this week's episode (watch below), she caught up with Tina Fey and Will Forte, her former Saturday Night Live costars, and opened up about how certain aspects of comedy don't age well. Poehler was an SNL cast member between 2001 and 2008, and returned later to host the show in 2010 and 2015. The funny ladies most recently appeared in February's SNL50 anniversary special, where they took questions from the star-studded audience members.

"Getting older and being in comedy is [figuring out] that everything has an expiration date," Poehler said on the podcast. Addressing the anniversary special's comedic "In Memoriam" montage that alluded to problematic sketches, Poehler added, "They had that segment which was like, 'Here’s all the ways we got things wrong,' and they showed way inappropriate casting for people."

While the actress didn't specifically name any of her past controversial moments from Saturday Night Live,...

Amy Poehler knows that certain “Saturday Night Live” sketches during her time on the series haven’t aged well.

An “SNL” cast member from 2001 to 2008, Poehler portrayed public figures such as Japanese artist Yoko Ono and former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il during her time at Studio 8H. Now, Poehler has reflected on what she learned from potentially problematic sketches.

Poehler said during her “Good Hang” podcast in the below video that “getting older and being in comedy is you have to, like, figure out, ‘Oh, it’s like everything has an expiration date.'”

Poehler returned earlier this year to NBC’s “SNL” stage for the 50th anniversary event, which included an “In Memoriam” segment for such sketches. “There was even on the 50th, when they had that segment which was like, ‘Here’s all the ways we got things wrong,’ and they showed way inappropriate casting for people,...

When the powers-that-be at NBC sent someone from Human Resources to talk to Saturday Night Live staffers about sexual harassment, Amy Poehler and Will Forte didn’t exactly take it seriously. “We were consensually and appropriately, just with each other, I believe, drawing pictures of penises and giving them back and forth to each other,” Poehler remembered this week on her Good Hang podcast.

The real-life incident played out like a comedy sketch when Poehler accidentally handed a phallus drawing to “the very nice man who had just done the entire seminar” instead of the sign-in sheet. It was an example, Poehler said, of crossing the line in the name of getting a laugh. “That’s the part about getting older and being in comedy,” she said. “You have to figure out, ‘Everything has an expiration date.’”

As an example, she pointed to the In Memoriam segment of SNL50 — not...

Since breaking in 1988 with their debut LP Surfer Rosa, Pixies has cast a Godzilla-sized shadow on alternative music. Case in point: the Rosa single “Where Is My Mind?” currently boasts over 1 billion Spotify streams, embraced by Gen Z as the embodiment of a certain indie vibe of yore.

Pixies followed that with “Doolittle” in 1989, a no-skips groundbreaker which solidified their sound — a pastiche of punk, surfer rock and general sci-fi weirdness. They also introduced the concept of loud/soft songwriting, which Nirvana took and ran with to massive crossover success on 1991’s Nevermind. After writing “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Kurt Cobain noted how much it sounded like a Pixies song and fretted, “They’re going to nail us.”

The band has endured its ups and downs in the ensuing years, most notably with an abrupt breakup in 1993; a triumphant Coachella comeback set in 2004 (the reunion stuck and Pixies still tours and releases new music,...

Brian Wilson’s friends and fellow celebrities are remembering the music icon. On Wednesday, after his family confirmed his death, Al Jardine, Mike Love, Mick Fleetwood, Elton John, Nancy Sinatra, and Sean Ono Lennon were among the stars to remember the revered Beach Boys leader.

“We are heartbroken to announce that our beloved father Brian Wilson has passed away. We are at a loss for words right now,” they wrote. “Please respect our privacy at this time as our family is grieving. We realize that we are sharing our grief with the world.

There's been no shortage of material about the Beatles, perhaps the most heavily documented musical group in history. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr's earth-shattering appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 has been recounted in many films and TV specials, most famously Richard Lester's A Hard Day's Night, so what more could possibly be said about the iconic moment? For David Tedeschi, director of Beatles '64, there was a lot of meat left on the bone.

As Tedeschi tells Gold Derby, "the seed of the idea was this extraordinary footage" shot by legendary documentarians David and Albert Maysles "which had never really been given its due." The footage "only covered about two-and-a-half weeks of time," documenting the group's first trip to America. "It was a very short trip, but it felt momentous. We thought with this extraordinary footage it could be the beginning of...

Eric Idle is best known for his work/online feuds with Monty Python, but he also produced a number of notable works outside the Python canon. One of the best and most prolific of Idle’s solo endeavors was 1978’s The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash. The Beatles parody, about Liverpool’s “Prefab Four,” was the first ever feature-length music mockumentary, predating This Is Spinal Tap by six years.

The TV movie wasn’t a huge hit originally. When it first aired on NBC, All You Need Is Cash reportedly received “the lowest ratings of any prime-time television show airing on network television that week.” But it subsequently amassed a large cult following. Even Yoko Ono was a fan, despite the fact that her Rutles surrogate was a literal Nazi.

But for some reason, the original film isn’t available on any streaming services right now. And physical home...

More than 10,000. That’s how many interviews Sir David Frost conducted across his extraordinary career in television, spanning almost 50 years.

Frost is best known for his historic conversation with former President Richard Nixon, which created a sensation when it was broadcast in 1977. That encounter became the basis for the 2006 play Frost/Nixon, written by Peter Morgan (The Crown), and two years later a film directed by Ron Howard, starring Frank Langella as Nixon and Michael Sheen as Frost.

The new MSNBC documentary series David Frost Vs examines some of the greatest interviews conducted by the Television Hall of Fame inductee, including that incredible sit-down with Nixon as well as eye-opening discussions with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Elton John, Muhammad Ali, Jane Fonda, Nixon’s Vice President Spiro Agnew and more. On the latest episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, we explore the series with executive producer Wilfred Frost,...

Mike Peters, who as frontman for The Alarm sang on such tracks as “Strength,” “Sixty Eight Guns,” “Spirit of ’76” and “Rain in the Summertime,” died Tuesday of blood cancer in Manchester, England, a spokesman announced. He was 66 and had been battling chronic lymphocytic leukemia for decades.

Born on February 25, 1959, in Wales, Peters played in 1970s punk bands The Toilets and Seventeen before forming The Alarm in 1981. The group supported its eponymous first EP — which featured “The Stand” –with a key opening slot on much of U2’s breakout 1983 world tour, including the Red Rocks Amphitheatre show captured for U2’s EP Under a Blood Red Sky.

Already a powerhouse live act, the quartet released its debut album, Declaration, the following year and make the UK Top 10 helped by the Top 20 single “Sixty Eight Guns.” The song was a minor Mainstream Rock hit in the U.S., pushing the album...

On Sunday April 27 2025, CBS broadcasts Made in Hollywood!

The Accountant 2; The Legend of Ochi; One to One: John & Yoko Season 20 Episode 30 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Made in Hollywood,” titled “The Accountant 2; The Legend of Ochi; One to One: John & Yoko,” promises an exciting mix of interviews and insights into some highly anticipated films. This episode will feature a lineup of talented stars, including Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Kristen Stewart, Steven Yuen, Finn Wolfhard, and Emily Watson.

Viewers can look forward to Ben Affleck discussing his role in “The Accountant 2,” a sequel that aims to build on the success of the first film. His conversation will likely touch on the challenges and developments his character faces this time around. Jon Bernthal and Cynthia Addai-Robinson are also expected to share their experiences from the film, providing a deeper understanding of the story and their characters.

John Lennon, a founding member of The Beatles, was not only a musical icon but also a symbol of peace and counterculture in the 20th century. After the group disbanded, he continued to make waves with his solo career, producing timeless hits like Imagine and Give Peace a Chance. Tragically, his life was cut short on December 8, 1980, when he was shot outside his apartment building, The Dakota, in New York City.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono | Credits: Eric Koch / Anefo via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication

Now, almost 5 decades since his tragic death, his wife, Yoko Ono, has revealed that she had warned her husband about his dreaded end. However, Lennon’s response to her worries was rather nonchalant.

John Lennon brushed off Yoko Ono’s warning about his death

Ever since 1966, John Lennon and Yoko Ono shared one of the most iconic and controversial relationships in music history.

According to a new poll, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle may be household names, but not everyone likes them.

Prince Harry is often in the news, frequently for his charities, such as Invictus, or due to his numerous court cases involving security concerns that keep him away from the United Kingdom.

As Monsters and Critics has reported, Prince Harry recently traveled to London for a case involving reduced security, and a disruption caused his security to intervene.

Meghan, who has changed her name from Markle to Sussex to simply Meghan, is frequently in the news, especially since the launch of her “With Love, Meghan” show on Netflix.

Prince Harry and Meghan are both household names, but that doesn’t always translate into high popularity.

A new poll from the experts at YouGov.com ranked British celebrities from least to best liked, and the results for Prince Harry and Meghan are surprising.

When Dora Jar meets Rolling Stone in New York’s Madison Square Park, her basket-like purse rests on her leg. She keeps what’s inside a secret. “Wouldn’t you like to know?” the musician quips while digging through the bag to pull out her phone. The 28-year-old might be gatekeeping her What’s in my Bag haul, but her music library is fair game as she kicks off the latest episode of Rolling Stone’s Song Shuffle.

From the first song Dora shuffles, it’s clear that she keeps...

In 1972, ABC aired an exposé on the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, New York, which had been accused of abusing and neglecting its intellectually challenged wards. A young, hungry investigative reporter named Geraldo Rivera took a camera crew inside the institution, and gave the country a firsthand look at the appalling conditions the underage patients were forced to endure. Thousands upon thousands of viewers reacted with shock, anger and demands for Willowbrook to close its doors forever. Two of them, sitting in a cluttered apartment in Greenwich Village, decided...

Sean Ono Lennon calls the new documentary movie 'One to One: John Yoko' "a window through which you can view the lives of my parents".The film has been directed by Kevin McDonald and features footage from the two 'One to One' benefit concerts that John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Elephant’s Memory performed at Madison Square Garden in August 1972.These concerts were the only full live shows Lennon ever did between the breakup of the Beatles and his death in 1980 but Sean insists that the documentary is about more than music, calling it "multi-layered [with] macro and micro narratives".He told Variety: "Honestly, I think Kevin is an amazing director and obviously he’s made many great films, so he knows what he’s doing. And his angle on this story is something that I couldn’t have imagined, I guess. Because I probably would’ve imagined ... some people might be imagining,...

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Is the Yokossance Finally Here?

With a new biography on Yoko Ono, David Sheff's Yoko, and a new documentary about her and John Lennon, Kevin Macdonald's One to One: John & Yoko, out now,  The New York Times' Jon Pareles and Lindsay Zoladz debate whether the cultural reassessment of Ono's legacy is now complete.

"You Know There's No Actual F--king": Jon Hamm and Tina Fey Reunite

We want to go to there. Tina Fey interviews Jon Hamm for Interview, during which the frequent collaborators reminisce on their parallel runs on 30 Rock and Mad Men,...

The new documentary “One to One: John & Yoko” being released in theaters this weekend is much more than a concert film — but its Imax big-screen release is a sure indicator that many fans expect the live performance core of the movie to deliver on that level, whatever else has been built around that footage. At its center is a healthy amount of the “One to One” benefit concerts that John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Elephant’s Memory performed at Madison Square Garden in August 1972, which turned out to be the only full live show Lennon ever did between the breakup of the Beatles two and a half years earlier and his death eight years later. The concert stuff needs to blast out of those speakers in the best fidelity possible, and charged with making that happen was Sean Ono Lennon, who worked on fresh mixes of this material, just...

This review was originally published during the 2024 Venice Film Festival. “One to One: John and Yoko” opens from Magnolia Pictures on IMAX screens Friday, April 11, 2025.

In the fall of 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono moved into an apartment on 105 Bank Street in the West Village of Manhattan. It had been two years since Lennon told his Beatles bandmates that he wanted “a divorce,” and the recently married couple craved a fresh start in America away from the oppressive shadow of the group he founded. By this point, Lennon and Ono’s lives were completely intertwined—they were not merely lovers, but also close creative collaborators whose artistry was developing in tandem. Her background in the avant-garde and gallery world intermingled with his experience with pop music and celebrity until their work became inseparable from persona. Together they garnered a more focused political conscience as the Vietnam war continued unabated amidst an increasingly fractured,...

Few stories about pop culture are more prevalent than the myth that Yoko Ono broke up the Beatles. For decades, it has been clear other extenuating factors led to John Lennon leaving the band, and yet the story continues to percolate. To help dispel this idea, One to One: John & Yoko examines the famous couple during their life in New York City in 1972. In the process, it follows Lennon and Ono as they mount various pressure campaigns to change the policies and politics of the era. While not entirely successful in showcasing the couple, director Kevin Macdonald paints a compelling, if overly broad, vision of the moment.

Related“I feel like I understand John and Yoko better”: One to One: John and Yoko Director Kevin Macdonald Discusses Creating a Different Type of Beatles Documentary One to One: John & Yoko — The Plot

1972 was a year of tumultuous change for America,...

A collection of staggering TV clips and amazing audio of Lennon and Ono’s life in 1970s NYC, this film is a mosaic of countercultural moments

Film-maker Kevin Macdonald has created a fever dream of pop culture: a TV-clip collage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s time in New York in the early 70s, as they led the countercultural protest. It’s a film that mixes small screen zeitgeist fragments and madeleine moments, a memory quilt of a certain time and place, juxtaposing Jerry Rubin and Allen Ginsberg with Richard Nixon and George Wallace, John and Yoko in concert with ads for Tupperware – all inspired by the fact that John and Yoko did an awful lot of TV watching in their small New York apartment of that time, with John in particular thrilled by the American novelty of 24/7 television.

It was also on TV that John and Yoko saw...

Sean Ono Lennon approves of Sam Mendes’ Beatles biopic process. The musician, who is the son of late Beatle John Lennon and artist Yoko Ono, confirmed to Vanity Fair that he has “every confidence” in Harris Dickinson’s ability to portray John Lennon in the buzzy four-part biopic. The full casting for all four Beatles was announced at CinemaCon 2025, with Paul Mescal portraying Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, in addition to Dickinson’s John Lennon.

Each of the four films will center on a different Beatle’s perspective about their rise to fame. Mendes teased that the project will be the first “bingeable” moviegoing experience, with all four films hitting theaters simultaneously in April 2028.

“We are all in touch with Sam,” Lennon told Vanity Fair while promoting documentary “One to One,” adding, “I told him I am not interested in second-guessing his casting choices as a director.

Who else to play the gargantuan band The Beatles in four different biopics but actors whose names are currently in the lights?

The casting choice for the upcoming ‘The Beatles’ biopic was revealed at this year’s Sony’s CinemaCon. Joseph Quinn has been cast as George Harrison, Paul Mescal is Paul McCartney, Barry Keoghan is Ringo Starr and Harris Dickinson is John Lennon.

Just picture that! Ahhh… Maybe it’s a bit too early to start doing that as it will be rolling out in theaters in April 2028, so it’s probably best not to get too excited right now. It’s still a long ways from 2028. Trust me.

Sam Mendes Shares Insights Into Upcoming ‘The Beatles’ Biopics

I think that I’ve heard somewhere about a John Lennon and Yoko Ono documentary being spear-headed by his widow Yoko Ono and son Julian Lennon. Something about it being acquired by Magnolia Pictures.

When you are thinking about the most famous musicians in the world, John Lennon is probably at the top of that list, and that’s partially because there are so many films about this brilliant artist. It’s hard to find a film that offers a new perspective on his life, but that is exactly what One to One: John and Yoko does, exploring the relationship and work of Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono in the years after The Beatles dissolved.

At the film’s Sundance premiere, FandomWire got to speak with One to One: John and Yoko’s Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald about his unique approach to the music documentary, exploring a different side of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s story, and why he thinks this — and other music documentaries — make for such an intoxicating experience in IMAX.

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Warner Bros. and Legendary mined box office gold this weekend with the spectacular debut of “A Minecraft Movie,” which towered over the competition with £15 million ($19.1 million), according to Comscore.

The film, based on the beloved video game franchise, delivered the highest opening of 2025 so far in the U.K. and Ireland.

Landing in second place was Universal Pictures’ “Six The Musical” – the stage-to-screen adaptation of the West End hit that reimagines the six wives of Henry VIII as pop queens – which also posted a robust debut with $2.7 million.

Disney’s “Snow White” dropped to third place in its third weekend, earning $853,612 and bringing its cumulative total to $10.1 million. A new entry at No. 4, dark comedy “Death of a Unicorn,” distributed by Entertainment Film Distributors, opened with $621,275.

Warner Bros.’ Jason Statham vehicle “A Working Man” landed in fifth place with $422,325 in its second weekend, bringing its total to $1.7 million.

Rounding out...

The director of One to One: John & Yoko reveals how he was given access to a trove of intimate and family archive material that changes how we see the star couple

People are usually at their most interesting when they are in flux – uncertain of the way forward, of what life they ought to build. That was the case with John Lennon and Yoko Ono when they arrived in New York in 1971. They were both fleeing England – the recriminations around the Beatles breakup; the terrible misogyny and racism levelled at Ono – but also running towards the optimism and creative excitement of the New York art scene.

This is the period I have tried to recreate in my film One to One: John & Yoko – using a plethora of previously unheard phone recordings, home movies and archive. It’s an unconventional film in many ways, pitching the viewer headfirst into the life,...

Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald wasn't interested in making yet another film about the Beatles. That's why when producer Peter Worsley approached him with the rights for One to One — John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1972 benefit concert at Madison Square Garden — the filmmaker asked himself, "What can we do to make this a must-see film rather than just another thing documenting Lennon and the Beatles' careers?"

The answer was a revelatory inside look at the 18 months Lennon and Ono spent living in Greenwich Village and delivering 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 music produced by Sean Ono Lennon, One to One: John and Yoko premieres exclusively in Imax theaters on April 11.

"It has pretty incredible rarity value, and it was only ever released before on VHS in 1986 — with very poor quality — and the family...

A comprehensive exhibition of Yoko Ono’s art, “Music of the Mind,” will open at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art (McA) in October. The institution will display more than 200 pieces, covering a span of more than seven decades’ worth of work. These include photography, musical compositions, participatory instruction pieces, installations, and a curated music room, among several other highlights. London’s Tate Museum previously showed “Music of the Mind” last year and reported record turnouts.

Some of the notable works featured include Cut Piece (1964), which invited participants to cut off her clothing,...

Marvel just dropped the cast list for Avengers: Doomsday, and, well, it was a lot to take in. In a five-hour live stream on YouTube that felt like a Yoko Ono performance piece and a test for even the most patient fans (as interesting as watching paint dry), an endless row of empty chairs slowly gained name tags – Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Mackie, Paul Rudd, and on and on it went. One by one, names appeared, some expected, some not as much, until Robert Downey Jr. showed up, shut it down, and left me with more questions than answers.

The 27 confirmed names did not have all of the usual suspects but focused on a few returning Avengers, the Thunderbolts, the new Fantastic Four, and, most surprisingly, the classic X-Men from the Fox era. Channing Tatum’s Gambit, a character that has spent more time in development hell than on-screen, is somehow in the mix,...

Here’s a toast to the happy couple. For Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco, turning their love story into an album is the least they could do. I Said I Love You First is a valentine that delivers exactly what it promises — a pop icon and a superstar producer celebrating a real-life romance that we all can root for. As Selena once sang, it’s just like the Battle of Troy — there’s nothing subtle here. These two crazy kids are young, they’re in love, and they can’t...

Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’ John Lennon and Yoko Ono documentary One to One: John & Yoko will get its Asia premiere as the closing film for the second edition of the Red Lorry Film Festival in India. The country’s international cinema showcase is organized by BookMyShow.

This year’s second edition of the festival features a lineup of more than 120 films, including premieres, retrospectives and special screenings. Among its titles are Oscar winner Anora, The Last Showgirl and such classics as Pretty Woman.

At the heart of the doc are the One to One Concerts, John Lennon’s only full-length performances after The Beatles, for which he was joined by Yoko Ono, The Plastic Ono Band, Elephant’s Memory and special guests. With remixed concert audio produced by their only son, musician Sean Ono Lennon, the film showcases newly restored and transferred footage, along with previously unseen and unheard personal archives,...

Magnolia Pictures has released the trailer for One to One: John & Yoko, a documentary directed by Kevin Macdonald that explores John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s early years in New York City and their One to One concert at Madison Square Garden in 1972. The film will premiere in IMAX on April 11 before expanding to wider theaters on April 18.

The documentary, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival last year, features archival footage, including previously unseen home movies and restored clips from the benefit concert where Lennon performed with guest musicians, members of the Plastic Ono Band, and backing band Elephant’s Memory. The concert was Lennon’s only full-length solo performance after leaving The Beatles, serving as both a musical event and a call to action during the Vietnam War and the Nixon administration.

Macdonald, known for One Day in September and The Last King of Scotland, directed the...

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Sadie Sink is joining the Spider-Man franchise

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Director Kevin McDonald (“The Last King of Scotland”) is behind a brand new documentary, “One To One: John & Yoko,” that explores the lives of iconic musicians John Lennon and Yoko Ono while they were living in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s.

A new trailer has been released by Magnolia Pictures alongside an announcement that the pic will be heading to IMAX on April 11 and then subsequent theaters on April 18.

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Dogwoof unleashed the trailer for the feature documentary featuring John Lennon and Yoko Onom ‘One To One: John & Yoko.’

Directed by renowned British director Kevin Macdonald and co-directed and edited by Sam Rice-Edwards, the feature 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.

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.

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s iconic love story will be explored in an intimate new documentary title One to One. The film will be screening exclusively in IMAX on April 11th.

Directed by Kevin Macdonald, One to One centers around Lennon’s only full-length show after leaving the Beatles. He and Ono put on the One to One benefit show at Madison Square Garden on August 30th, 1972. The film explores the 18 months leading up to the show, when the couple shared an apartment in Greenwich Village and found themselves heavily immersed in American television.

Magnolia Pictures has released the trailer for One to One: John & Yoko, which takes an intimate look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono as they settle into a new life in New York City while associating with the anti-war movement and being targeted by the U.S. government. The documentary is directed by Kevin Macdonald and produced by Peter Worsley. Sam Rice-Edwards would co-direct and edit the feature. Macdonald produces the film with Alice Webb and the executive producers on board include Sean Ono Lennon, Marc Robinson, David Joseph, Steve Condie, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner.

The official synopsis reads,

“An expansive and revelatory inside look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s life in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s, One To One: John & Yoko delivers an immersive cinematic experience that brings to life electrifying, never-before-seen material and newly restored footage of John and Yoko’s only full-length concert.

Following The Beatles’ breakup in 1970, John Lennon and Yoko Ono moved to Greenwich Village to escape tabloid attention. That’s the time period explored in the trailer for the new documentary, One to One: John and Yoko. Watch it below.

“I fell in love with an independent, creative genius. I started waking up,” Lennon says about Ono after footage of the couple enjoying New York City is shown. “I really feel at home here.”

Later, the musician discusses his legendary 1972 “One to One” benefit concert at Madison Square Garden, saying he made it free to “change the apathy that youth have” by singing and speaking to them. “I would do anything to get them alive again,” Lennon adds. “Viva la revolución.”

Coming from The Last King of Scotland director Kevin MacDonald, One to One: John and Yoko contains never-before-seen material and newly restored footage from the concert. It also features...

Following The Beatles’ breakup in 1970, John Lennon and Yoko Ono moved to Greenwich Village to escape tabloid attention. That’s the time period explored in the trailer for the new documentary, One to One: John and Yoko. Watch it below.

“I fell in love with an independent, creative genius. I started waking up,” Lennon says about Ono after footage of the couple enjoying New York City is shown. “I really feel at home here.”

Later, the musician discusses his legendary 1972 “One to One” benefit concert at Madison Square Garden, saying he made it free to “change the apathy that youth have” by singing and speaking to them. “I would do anything to get them alive again,” Lennon adds. “Viva la revolución.”

Coming from The Last King of Scotland director Kevin MacDonald, One to One: John and Yoko contains never-before-seen material and newly restored footage from the concert. It also features...

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"Exhilarating." "Electric." Magnolia Pictures has unveiled another quick teaser trailer for the time capsule documentary film titled One to One: John & Yoko, arriving to watch in theaters this April. For anyone who feels the need to revisit the past. This first premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival last fall, and we also posted a teaser trailer then just before its debut. Set in 1972 New York, this documentary explores John and Yoko's personal lives amid a turbulent era. Centered on the "One to One" charity concert for special needs children, it features unseen archives, home movies, and restored footage. A unique take on a seminal time in the lives of one of music’s most famous couples, One To One: John & Yoko explores the 18 months that John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent living in Greenwich Village, during the early 1970s - and how their relationship is changed by their experience in America.