Life after The Beatles for legendary singer-songwriter John Lennon and spouse Yoko Ono in New York Metropolis is the main focus of Kevin MacDonald’s newest documentary, One to One: John & Yoko.
The Scottish filmmaker, coming off his vogue doc Excessive & Low: John Galliano, recollects Lennon in 1972 performing his remaining full-stage efficiency, the One to One profit live performance, at New York Metropolis’s Madison Sq. Backyard, with Ono at his aspect.
Directed by Macdonald (Whitney, Touching the Void, The Final King of Scotland), One to One options new supplies like remixed live performance audio produced by Sean Ono Lennon, newly restored footage and private archives like telephone calls and residential motion pictures recorded and filmed by Lennon and Ono. In addition to incomes an Oscar for One Day in September, MacDonald additionally govt produced the award-winning documentaries Senna and The Rescue.
“I needed to make a movie that surprises and delights even essentially the most devoted Lennon and Ono followers by specializing in one transformative interval of their lives and telling the story by means of their very own phrases, photos and music,” MacDonald mentioned in a press release about his doc. The venture is constructed round 16mm movie footage of the traditional One-to-One live performance whereas providing an intimate take a look at Lennon and Ono charting a brand new musical course after The Beatles.
One to One: John & Yoko, from Mercury Studios, comes over 50 years after The Beatles broke up, and Lennon was fatally shot in 1980 as he and Ono returned to their dwelling within the Dakota constructing overlooking New York’s Central Park.
“Kevin’s documentary brings utterly recent perception into my mother and father’ lives throughout their Financial institution Road and early New York years, displaying firsthand their unwavering dedication to selling peace and non-violence throughout a turbulent period of unrest, corruption and pointless battle,” Ono Lennon added his personal assertion.
One to One can also be the primary movie from Plan B/KM Movies, a three way partnership between Macdonald and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Productions. The producer credit are shared by Peter Worsley, Alice Webb and Macdonald, whereas Steve Condie, David Joseph, Marc Robinson, Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner govt produce.
“This movie is finally a narrative of radical hope. It’s an trustworthy and intimate take a look at a pivotal yr in John and Yoko’s lives – a melting pot of politics, youth tradition, self-growth and spine-tingling artistry. I’m honored to deliver this story to followers in every single place with the impeccable Kevin Macdonald, Sean and Peter,” Mercury Studios CEO Alice Webb mentioned in a press release.
Music-driven tasks at Mercury Studios embody American Symphony from Larger Floor Productions and Netflix; If These Partitions Might Sing, directed by Mary McCartney for Disney+; and My Life as a Rolling Stone for the BBC and MGM+.