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BookMyShow’s Red Lorry Film Festival crowned Venice winner “Paul and Paulette Take a Bath” and Cannes-winning “Souleymane’s Story” as winners of its competition segment over the weekend, as the sophomore edition of the Indian international film festival wrapped after three days of packed screenings across Mumbai.

“I’m Nevanka” claimed the Critics’ Pick award at the festival, which expanded to Hyderabad this year with its “Parallel Verse” program.

BookMyShow, India’s leading entertainment ticketing platform, launched the festival last year as part of its expansion beyond online movie ticketing into curated live experiences.

The competition winners were selected by a jury including filmmakers Vikramaditya Motwane, Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, Atul Sabharwal, PVR executive Sanjeev Kumar Bijli, critic Kaveree Bamzai and actor Prachee Shah Paandya, alongside honorary juror Ashish Hemrajani, co-founder of BookMyShow.

“What a joy to receive this award,” said Jethro Massey, director of “Paul and Paulette Take a Bath,...

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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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.

Continue reading ‘One To One: John & Yoko’ Trailer: New Documentary From Kevin McDonald Coming This April at The Playlist.

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.

By 1971 the...

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...

"How would you like to be remembered?" "Just as two lovers."...

"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.

Piece of Magic Entertainment has acquired theatrical rights from Mercury Studios for “One to One: John & Yoko” across a broad swath of European territories, including France, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

The documentary from Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald, which world premiered at Venice and recently played Sundance, offers an intimate look at 18 months of Lennon and Ono’s life in Greenwich Village during the early ’70s.

At its heart is newly restored footage of Lennon’s only full-length post-Beatles concert – the “One to One” benefit show at Madison Square Garden in August 1972. The film features remastered audio overseen by Sean Ono Lennon, the couple’s son.

The doc reconstructs the couple’s Greenwich Village apartment to paint a picture of their American experience, weaving in period TV footage spanning everything from Vietnam War coverage to “The Price is Right...

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Review: One of the ways I judge a documentary is how “inside baseball” it is for the uninitiated. This approach is sometimes necessary, especially when your subject’s life has been chronicled at length – such as another doc I saw here at Sundance, One to One: John & Yoko. Yet, when the subject is more niche, this approach doesn’t always work as it limits the potential audience. Such was my fear walking into It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley. While an icon, I must admit my knowledge of him is limited to his iconic cover of “Hallelujah” and the fact that he died young. As such, I figured I’d be lost watching this.

Happily, director Amy Berg (West of Memphis) strikes a good balance,...

Magnolia Pictures has secured the North American distribution rights for One to One: John & Yoko, a documentary offering an in-depth look at an 18-month period that redefined the lives of one of music’s most iconic couples, John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Details Of The Documentary

The film, directed by Academy Award-winner Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September), delves into the couple’s life during the early 1970s when they resided in New York City’s Greenwich Village.

It features rare, never-before-seen footage and newly restored material from Lennon’s only full-length post-Beatles concert. This audio restoration was overseen by their son, Sean Ono Lennon.

The documentary had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, followed by screenings at the Telluride Film Festival, and is set to be featured in the Spotlight section of the Sundance Film Festival, which runs from January 23 to February 2, 2025.

Magnolia plans an exclusive...

Plot: A year in the life of 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.

Review: If you’re a Beatle-maniac like me, the last couple of years have delivered a virtual treasure trove of new footage centered around the Fab Four. First, there was Peter Jackson’s mammoth effort, Get Back, then the re-release of the long-buried Let It Be documentary, Hulu’s recent Beatles ’64 (which happened to feature one of the late David Lynch’s last on-camera interviews – as he remembered seeing The Beatles in his youth), Paul McCartney’s One Hand Clapping and now One to One: John & Yoko.

While plenty of excellent documentaries have been made about Lennon (such as Imagine: John Lennon), directors Kevin McDonald and Sam Rice-Edwards take a particularly bold approach,...

It’s no secret that corporations like Netflix, Amazon, and Apple have lost their appetite for current event documentaries that tackle politics. The good old days when streamers shelled out seven figures for docus about polarizing politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (“Knock Down the House”), and eye-opening mock-government teen conferences (“Boys State”) after their Sundance debuts are behind us. That type of nonfiction, streamers would like you to think, doesn’t attract enough eyeballs and doesn’t lead to new subscriptions. Algorithms suggest that doc audiences are mostly interested in watching docus about celebrities, cults and true crime.

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“Thelma,” the action comedy starring a 93-year-old June Squibb, sold to Magnolia Pictures out of last year’s Sundance for around $2-3 million and made $12.5 million at the box office. That box office is about $4.5 million less than what Netflix paid for the straight-to-streaming horror title “It’s What’s Inside” at the fest. That movie spent just one week on the streamer’s global Top 10, and without a significant theatrical release.

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Magnolia Pictures has landed North American rights to “One to One: John & Yoko,” a documentary that offers an expansive and revealing look at the transformative 18 months of one of music’s most famous couples.

The sale went through before “One to One” is set to screen at Sundance Film Festival, which is taking place in Park City from Jan. 23-Feb. 2, 2025. The doc had its world premiere at Venice Film Festival and played at Telluride Film Festival before making the trek to Utah’s snowy mountain town.

Magnolia plans to release “One to One: John & Yoko” exclusively in Imax on April 11 before expanding to additional theaters. It will land on HBO and Max at a later date in 2025.

Kevin Macdonald (an Oscar winner for “One Day in September”) directed the documentary, which captures the time that Lennon and Ono spent living in New York City’s Greenwich Village in the early 1970s.

Kevin Macdonald’s Venice and Telluride documentary One To One: John & Yoko has found a home in North America, landing at Magnolia Pictures ahead of a Sundance slot in the Spotlight section.

The film looks at the 18-month period in the early 1970s when John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived in Greenwich Village and features previously unseen material and restored footage of Lennon’s only full-length post-Beatles concert. Sean Ono Lennon oversaw the remastered audio.

One To One: John & Yoko will open exclusively in Imax on April 11 before expanding into additional theatres and, late this year, debuting on HBO...

Ahead of its screening as part of the Spotlight section at the Sundance Film Festival, the documentary “One to One: John & Yoko” has secured distribution from Magnolia Pictures for a release that includes Imax exhibition and a streaming home on Max.

Directed by Kevin Macdonald (“The Last King of Scotland”), the film chronicles the 18 months that John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent living in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s, with never-before-seen material and newly restored footage of Lennon’s only full-length post-Beatles concert. Sean Ono Lennon, their son, oversaw the audio remaster and the film previously played at the Venice and Telluride film festivals.

Magnolia will open the film exclusively in Imax on April 11 before expanding to additional theaters. The film will air on HBO and will be available to stream on Max in late 2025.

“’One to One: John & Yoko’ is a revelation,” Magnolia Pictures co-CEOs Eamonn Bowles...

Exclusive: Magnolia Pictures is taking North American rights to Kevin Macdonald’s documentary One to One: John & Yoko, which after making its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and playing at Telluride is making a pit stop in the Spotlight section this week at the Sundance Film Festival. One to One: John & Yoko is getting an April 11 release exclusively in Imax. Pic will air on HBO and stream on Max in late 2025.

The docu is a revelatory look at the 18 months John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent living in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s with never-before-seen material and newly restored footage of Lennon’s only full-length, post-Beatles concert. Sean Ono Lennon, the couple’s son, oversaw the audio remastering of the concert in the pic.

On August 30, 1972, in New York City, John Lennon played his only full-length show after leaving the Beatles: the One to One...

The Sundance Film Festival remains the largest independent film festival in the United States, and as was the case in both 2023 and 2024, the 2025 edition will be in a hybrid format, with screenings in Park City and Salt Lake City, Ut, along with limited selections available online for viewers across the United States. This provides cinephiles ample opportunity to check out some of the most exciting indie cinema that will be coming your way this year.

FandomWire is delighted to again be covering the Sundance Film Festival, but this year, for the first time in person in Park City, Utah! We will be reviewing many of the films we see on the ground, but for now, we wanted to let you know about some of the films we have gotten the opportunity to see early and you won’t want to miss.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear in One to One: John & Yoko...

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival is almost here, and in the lead-up to the annual event, we now know who will be responsible for picking the various jury prizes at the festival. The 2025 Sundance jury members spans 16 filmmakers, with the vaunted U.S. Dramatic Competition jury being especially star-studded. “King Richard” director Reinaldo Marcus Green and “Succession” alum Arian Moayed serve on that jury with “Past Lives” director Celine Song; her feature debut premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival before receiving Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.

The 2025 festival will begin Thursday, January 23, with premieres in Park City every day through the end of Tuesday, January 28. Additional showings will take place in Park City and Salt Lake City throughout the Festival until Sunday, February 2. The jury members will select the winners to be announced during the Awards Ceremony, held at The Ray Theatre on Friday, January 31.

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After conquering the Dceu, riding shotgun in the Fast and Furious franchise, and taking hackers to task in Netflix’s Heart of Stone, Gal Gadot is locked into a race against time in director Kevin Madonald’s The Runner, an upcoming thriller set up at Amazon MGM Studios. David Kosse produces through his newly established Rockwood Pictures, with Amazon MGM Studios holding the worldwide rights.

Macdonald, whose films include One to One: John & Yoko, The Last King of Scotland, The Mauritanian, and more, directs The Runner from a script by Mark Gibson. According to Deadline, the plot finds Gadot playing “a high-powered attorney who must race through London, following the cryptic commands of a mysterious Caller, as she fights against time to save her abducted son.”

Before Gal Gadot laced up her sneakers for The Runner, she played the Evil Queen in Disney’s live-action adaptation of its first animated classic,...

Exclusive: Gal Gadot has been set to star in The Runner, a London-set action thriller that will be directed by Kevin Macdonald. Amazon MGM Studios has acquired worldwide rights to the film which was developed and will be produced by David Kosse under the veteran exec’s new venture, Rockwood Pictures.

Prolific award-winning filmmaker Macdonald is directing from a script by Mark Gibson.

Gadot plays a high-powered attorney who must race through London, following the cryptic commands of a mysterious Caller, as she fights against time to save her abducted son.

Wonder Woman star Gadot’s recent credits include Netflix’s Red Notice and Heart of Stone. She will next be seen starring as the Evil Queen in Disney’s live-action Snow White which is due for domestic release...

More than a hundred songwriters, composers, perfomers and films are represented in the nominees’ list for the 2024 Hollywood Music in Media Awards — from pop luminaries like Elton John & Brandi Carlile, Miley Cyrus, Lainey Wilson and Pharrell Williams to celebrated scorers like Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson-Williams, Kris Bowers and Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross.

The list of nominees was unveiled Wednesday, in advance of a ceremony due to take place Nov. 20 at the Avalon in Hollywood.

“Emilia Pérez” led all films with five Hmma nominations. “Blitz” and “A Complete Unknown” have three nominations apiece. Other films picking up multiple noms include “Wicked,” “The Wild Robot,” “Moana 2,” “The Idea of You,” “Challengers” and “Elton John: Never Too Late.” (Scroll down to see the full lineup of 2024 nominees.)

The Hmma lineup of categories is the most expansive of any awards program recognizing musical achievements in the movies, between breaking down different genre categories for feature films,...

Nostalgia tends to tint our view of the past a rose-colored hue, casting a glow over intense conflict and deep angst, as if those sentiments weren’t fundamental to the experience of people alive in earlier times.

In the case of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the rose-colored (granny) glasses might be appropriate, at least when looking back at the early 1970s when the famous couple moved to New York City and took up residence in a very modest apartment in Greenwich Village. That’s the era examined in One to One: John & Yoko, the acclaimed new documentary directed by Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald.

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In 10 short years, Sffilm’s Doc Stories has established itself as one of the premiere documentary festivals in North America, perfectly timed on the calendar to showcase work with Oscar ambitions.

This year, its lineup included The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, from director Benjamin Ree, Robinson Devor’s Suburban Fury, Kevin Macdonald’s One to One: John & Yoko, Raoul Peck’s Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, and No Other Land, the Berlin Film Festival award winner directed by a collective of Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers.

Doc Stories also featured special events including – we are proud to say – a taping of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, hosted by Oscar winner John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) and Matt Carey, Deadline’s documentary awards editor. We gathered at Sffilm offices for a conversation with Anne Lai, executive director of Sffilm, and the organization’s Director of Programming, Jessie Fairbanks, discussing the...

By the early 1970s, John Lennon and Yoko Ono had established themselves as artistic pioneers through their boundary-pushing conceptual works and music with the Beatles and Plastic Ono Band. Yet when they moved from London to New York in 1971, seeking a change of pace after the turmoil of that last year with the Beatles, they plunged headfirst into the radical ferment shaping American society.

Settling in a small Greenwich Village apartment, Lennon and Ono immersed themselves in the social and political disputes of the day, from opposition to the Vietnam War to the emerging feminist and civil rights movements.

Directors Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards shine a light on this transformative period through their documentary One to One: John & Yoko. Using archived audio recordings, television footage, and home movies in addition to a film of a pivotal 1972 benefit concert, they reconstruct the couple’s immersion in the protests and provocations that surrounded them.

While there’s a few more fall film festivals popping up in the next month, the major ones are behind us, which means we have a strong sense of the films to have on your radar in the coming months and even through 2025. We’ve asked our writers from across the globe to weigh in on their favorite world premieres from Locarno Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and BFI London Film Festival.

Our coverage will continue with a few more reviews this week, and far beyond as we provide updates on the journey of these selections, so continue to explore all of our festival coverage here. In the meantime, check out top picks from our writers below and return soon for our extensive year-end coverage.

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I’ve seen documentaries reveal fascinating dimensions of John Lennon — films like “The U.S. vs. John Lennon” (2006), which chronicled his political activism and the Nixon administration’s attempts to deport him, or “The Lost Weekend: A Love Story” (2022), a portrait of Lennon’s relationship with May Pang. But “One to One: John & Yoko,” despite its rather nondescript title, may be the most accomplished and arresting of these tightly angled Lennon profiles. “The Lost Weekend” showed us a side of Lennon that had been somewhat under the radar. “One to One” deals with the period just before the Lost Weekend, starting in August 1971, when John and Yoko moved from their country estate outside London to New York City, where they spent 18 months living in a small apartment in the West Village. (It was after that that they moved into the Dakota.)

Lennon was out and about, digging the city,...

Exclusive: Sffilm’s prestigious Doc Stories is set to welcome a slew of Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated filmmakers to its 10th anniversary event next month, along with industry heavyweights Keri Putnam, Laura Kim, Carrie Lozano, and Justine Nagan.

The documentary festival, which runs from October 17-20 in San Francisco, unveiled its full lineup this morning, highlighted by new work from Kevin Macdonald, Ben Proudfoot, Raoul Peck, Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, and Pedro Kos, as well as a classic from Amy Berg about a singer who stunned San Francisco with her talent more than 50 years ago. [Scroll for the full program]

Macdonald opens the festival with One to One: John and Yoko, co-directed by Sam Rice-Edwards, “which chronicles John and Yoko’s musical, personal, artistic, social, and political world set against the backdrop of a turbulent era in American history.”

The closing night film belongs to Suburban Fury,...

The 2024 edition of Sffilm Doc Stories is celebrating a milestone year as the festival toasts its 10th anniversary.

This year’s four-day program will take place from October 17 through 20, and open with Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’ “One to One: John & Yoko,” about John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 18 months living in the U.S.

The festival will close out with a full circle moment, marking the premiere of Robinson Devor’s “Suburban Fury,” which was funded in part by a 2012 Sffilm Rainin Grant. “Suburban Fury” tells the story of Sara Jane Moore, who attempted to shoot President Gerald Ford on a crowded sidewalk in San Francisco’s Union Square in September of 1975.

The 2024 Sffilm Doc Stories lineup includes 10 features, two shorts programs, two filmmaking and industry talks, and a documentary filmmaking workshop for teens.

The Doc Stories weekend will kick off with a free, retrospective screening of Amy Berg...

Leading documentary festival IDFA has added more than 100 films to the program of its 37th edition, which runs from Nov. 14 to 24 in Amsterdam, as it unveiled the first titles for the Signed, Best of Fests and Paradocs selections, as well as the Short Documentary and the Youth Documentary sections.

The Signed section includes Radu Jude’s found-footage documentary “Eight Postcards from Utopia,” showing the commercials from Romania’s transition to a capitalist democracy, and impressionist desktop film “Sleep #2,” capturing live stream recordings of Andy Warhol’s grave. Mati Diop’s “Dahomey” examines questions of repatriation of African artefacts from Europe.

Several renowned directors push the boundaries of music film in this year’s program. Andrei Ujică revisits 1965 in “Twst – Things We Said Today,” offering a poetic look at the Beatles as they captivate New York while the Watts riots erupt in Los Angeles. Kevin Macdonald’s “One to One: John & Yoko...

Ukrainian-Russian filmmaker and anti-Putin activist Vitaly Mansky will be returning to IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) with his short film The Iron, a portrait of Europe in wartime, which screens in the festival’s competition for short documentary.

Mansky’s documentary portait of former leader of the Soviet Union Gorbachev. Heaven previously played in competition at IDFA in 2020.

Also in the short documentary section, Theo Panagopoulos’s archive-based doc Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing celebrates Palestine’s floral splendour from the 1930s, showing the complex relationship between the land and its inhabitants.

The same section will feature Pat Heywood’s mixed media project,...

The 2024 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony has wrapped up after a sweltering week and a half on the Lido.

The prestigious Golden Lion award for best film went to Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door. The Spaniard’s first-ever English-language feature received a whopping 17-minute standing ovation when it premiered at the festival. Almodóvar said in his acceptance speech Saturday: “I would like to dedicate it to my family, who is here now… This movie The Room Next Door, it is my first movie in English.. but the spirit is Spanish.”

His film, an adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s novel What Are You Going Through, follows best-selling writer Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) as they rekindle their friendship after losing touch. As they immerse themselves in past memories, anecdotes, art and movies, Martha, battling terminal cervical cancer, wants to die with dignity and asks Ingrid to be...

Exclusive: Jayne Sullivan has been hired as a literary manager at Cinetic Media, the esteemed management and media advisory company founded and overseen by John Sloss.

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Observed Kate Hurwitz and Alec Ring, Co-Heads of Cinetic Management, “Jayne was doing all the things a great manager does well before it was her official title. She has incredible taste, a strong work ethic, and her experience across the indie and studio landscape equips her to excel with artists at all stages of their careers. We are thrilled to have her join our team.”

Added Sullivan,...

George Clooney has commented for the first time on his New York Times op-ed asking Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race.

“I’ve actually never had to answer that question so I suppose I will do it here,” Clooney said when asked about it at the Venice press conference for his new film “Wolfs.”

“The person who should be applauded is the president, who has done the most selfless thing a president has done since George Washington,” he said, adding: “What should be remembered is the selfless act of someone who, it’s very hard to let go of power — we know that, we’ve seen it all over the world — and for someone to say I think there’s a better path forward, all the credit goes to him. And that’s really the truth … I’m just very proud of where we are in the...

John & Yoko in NYC! Mercury Studios has revealed a first look teaser trailer for a compelling documentary film titled One To One: John & Yoko, which is premiering now at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. The doc is a time capsule that takes us back to the year of 1972, when John Lennon & Yoko Ono appeared in New York City and riled up the culture and politics by getting involved in activism and showing up on TV (also see: Daytime Revolution). Set in 1972 New York, this documentary explores John and Yoko's world 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 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, hostile social environment. They wished to put theory into action, to commit to activist politics, and what better place to do that...

Alfonso Cuarón’s Apple TV+ limited series Disclaimer is gut-wrenching, beautiful and solidly conventional.

Based on the bestselling 2015 novel of the same name by Renée Knight, the seven-episode show written and directed by the two-time Oscar winner opens with a long shot of teenage sex on a European train and a warning. A Christiane Amanpour-delivered warning to “beware of narrative and form” at a fictional Royal Television Society award ceremony for acclaimed documentarian Catherine Ravenscroft, played by Cate Blanchett.

Intentionally full of the contradictions of its dark cupboard of secrets and lies, the dual opening of Disclaimer gives away all that is to follow, both with skill and a distinct lack of subtlety. In that sense, with a seemingly perfect life shattered, betrayal, human frailty, grief and a mysterious novel that cuts too close to home, the series is intentionally aware of what it is.

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If a cross-section of documentary filmmakers were offered access to live performances, behind-the-scenes footage and even private phone calls during a couple of years in the life and career of John Lennon, it’s unlikely that many of them would choose the period of 1971-1972. That was when Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, got heavily into political causes and made “Some Time in New York City,” an unwieldy and hamfisted slice of rock ‘n’ roll agitprop that long ago secured its reputation as the worst album of Lennon’s career.

But that’s the period that director Kevin Macdonald and co-director Sam Rice-Edwards had to work with to make “One to One: John & Yoko,” which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Friday and will also play in Telluride this weekend. The filmmakers have managed to make a bracing, scattered and somewhat revelatory look at...

Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Lawrence and Stanley Tucci as Cardinal Bellini in ‘Conclave’ (Photo Courtesy of Focus Features. © 2024)

The 51st Telluride Film Festival announced its lineup just days ahead of the festival’s opening on Friday, August 30, 2024. The festival, which runs through Monday, September 2nd, will include the world premieres of Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, Edward Berger’s Conclave, and Malcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson.

This year’s festival includes 60 feature films, shorts, and revival programs.

“This brief weekend of cinematic bliss reminds us every year that movies really are magic,” stated Telluride Film Festival director Julie Huntsinger. “The process of assembling our line-up is both daunting and rewarding, and it never fails to bring the most fantastic sense of satisfaction once we’re finished. Our anticipation matches that of the audience. We’re delighted to now share what we found to be the most exciting, interesting and...

Are you ready to be transported back to one of the most influential periods in music history? Kevin Macdonald is willing to take you there, and he’s bringing John Lennon and Yoko Ono along for the wild ride. Macdonald’s upcoming documentary One to One: John & Yoko brings audiences back to John Lennon’s only headlining show after leaving The Beatles before he was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman, a disturbed fan who took the life of a legend far too soon. Today’s One to One: John & Yoko teaser trailer set to John Lennon’s “New York City” is a rush of memories and footage from Lennon and Ono’s collaborative relationship. As history pushes the world into unforgiving times, the legendary couple strives to share their gift of music with eager ears to influence the voices of change.

Here’s the official synopsis for...

Shortly after they moved to New York in 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono became so paranoid that the authorities were bugging their phone that they decided to record their calls. More than 50 years on, a selection of these never-before-heard recordings form what Kevin Macdonald describes as the “beating heart” of his new documentary, “One to One: John and Yoko,” premiering in Venice Aug 30.

In one call, Ono candidly describes what it was like to be blamed for breaking up the Beatles. In another, Lennon describes his idea for a tour around the U.S. that would raise bail money in each town they play, alongside efforts to get Bob Dylan onboard (and persuade Dylan aggravator A.J. Weberman to please leave the musician alone). In some of the film’s most amusing moments, there are endless back-and-forths concerning Ono’s efforts to procure some flies for a new art installation

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s legacy during their 18 months stateside in Greenwich Village is captured in new documentary, “One to One: John and Yoko.”

The feature, helmed by Kevin Macdonald, is set in in 1971 and 1972 New York as Lennon prepares for his One to One charity concert for children with special needs. The iconic performance, which took place on August 30, 1972, was Lennon’s only full length concert between the final Beatles show in 1966 and his death in 1980. “One to One” boasts unseen home videos filmed by Lennon and Ono, as well as archival personal phone calls and photos.

The iconic couple’s son Sean Ono Lennon is also involved as the music producer.

The official logline reads: “Set in New York in 1972, the film explores John and Yoko’s musical, personal, artistic, social, and political world set against the backdrop of a turbulent era in American history. While much...

Telluride Film Festival has announced the line-up before the festival starts on Friday, with world premieres for Edward Berger’s Conclave, RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys, and Robbie Williams musical biopic Better Man.

Also making the cut in the main programme are documentaries Leonardo Da Vinci from Ken Burns, Kevin Macdonald’s One To One: John & Yoko, and R. J. Cutler’s Martha Stewart film.

Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5 and Joshua Openheimer’s The End are in the main programme, alongside Cannes favourites Anora, The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, All We Imagine As Light, and Emilia Pérez.

The 51st...

Unless you’re a major studio or willing to pay for a rent-spiked ski lodge––and even then––few festivals ring more exclusive than Telluride, which has the distinction / misfortune of firing the starting gun for fall festivals and that ever-deleterious phenomenon we call “Oscar buzz.” Their 2024 lineup nevertheless features some films of note: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson’s Rumours; Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia; Payal Kapadia’s All That We Imagine as Light; Sean Baker’s Anora; and Alfonso Cuarón’s Apple series Disclaimer.

On a repertory end, Kenneth Lonergan’s been anointed this year’s Guest Director and has programmed the following: Arch of Triumph, Barry Lyndon, Doctor Zhivago, Grand Hotel, and My Darling Clementine. And Telluride’s 2024 Special Medallion goes to Les Films du Losange, who will represent Misericordia and have their history celebrated with the following screenings: Beauty and the Beast; Charles, Dead or...

Edward Berger’s “Conclave,” Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night,” Malcolm Washington’s “The Piano Lesson,” RaMell Ross’s “Nickel Boys,” and Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The End” will world premiere at the 51st edition of the Telluride Film Festival, fest organizers announced on Thursday.

In addition to the world premieres, several expected awards contenders will have North American bows in the small Colorado town over Labor Day weekend, including Pablo Larrain’s “Maria” (which premieres Thursday at the Venice Film Festival), Sean Baker’s “Anora” (this year’s Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner), and Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Perez” (a Cannes winner for its ensemble of actresses and a jury prize winner at the prestigious event).

In addition to its lineup of features, Telluride organizers also bestow the Telluride Silver Medallion to “a trio of artists who have made significant contributions to the film industry.” This year’s honorees are the French filmmaker Audiard,...

Angelina Jolie hit the Lido today, ahead of the world premiere of Pablo Larraín’s Maria Callas biopic, Maria. Speaking with the Venice Film Festival press corps this afternoon, the star said that embodying the legendary opera singer gave her a “new relationship” to the term “diva.” The word “comes with a lot of negative connotations… I think (Callas) was one of hardest working people, who didn’t hurt anybody.”

Maria, a creative imagining and a psychological portrait of the eponymous legendary opera singer, takes place in the 1970s near the end of Callas’ life. It’s a story about a woman who lived from the ’20s to the ’70s, burning her voice and her life by doing what she loved.

This is the third portrait of a famous woman as seen through Larraín’s lens, following 2016’s Jackie and 2021’s Spencer, both of which also premiered in Venice.

On Wednesday,...