Kevin Macdonald Co-director: Sam Rice-Edwards Logline: An exploration of the seminal and transformative 18 months that one of music's most famous couples - John Lennon and Yoko Ono - spent living in Greenwich Village,
John Lennon and Yoko Ono publicly spoke about love and peace. At home, though, he could be viciously mean to her.
Yoko Ono told John Lennon she needed time apart in the early 1970s. His friend recalled Lennon seeming happy about it.
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.
When John Lennon met Yoko Ono, the music and art world was never the same again as the infamous couple collided in an instant, meeting at random one day.
Many criticised 'I Just Shot John Lennon' by The Cranberries for being insensitive, but really it proved the artistic prowess of Dolores O'Riordan.
When Sean Ono Lennon, the only child of John Lennon and artist/activist Yoko Ono, was growing up, his father's third solo album, Mind Games, was "just sort of the lore of my family; his music was always playing in the house,
Much to her chagrin, Yoko Ono would likely never hear Bob Dylan the same way again after one fateful night in Greenwich Village.
“John phoned me up one morning in January and said, ‘I’ve written this tune and I’m going to record it tonight and have it pressed, up and out tomorrow. That’s the whole point – ‘Instant Karma!’ – you know?" said Harrison.
John & Yoko," a documentary about John Lennon and Yoko Ono's time living in Greenwich Village, will be released by Magnolia in IMAX.
Macdonald won a Feature Documentary Oscar for 2000’s One Day in September which follows the 1972 Munich Summer Olympic Games when Palestinian terrorist group Black September held Israeli athletes hostage. Macdonald has also directed such feature films as The Mauritanian, The Eagle, the Oscar winning The Last King of Scotland, and Black Sea.
Magnolia Pictures has announced that they have acquired North American rights to ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO, from Oscar®-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald (“The Last King of Scotland,” “Marley,” HBO’s “One Day in September”, “The Mauritanian”).