Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “One to One: John & Yoko” showing April 18-24 at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres.
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.
Featuring mind-blowing music newly remixed and produced by Sean Ono Lennon, the film is a seismic revelation that will challenge 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. Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin 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 couple was newly-arrived in the United States — living in a tiny apartment in Greenwich Village and watching a huge amount of American television. The film uses a riotous mélange of American TV to conjure the era through what the two would have been seeing on the screen: the Vietnam War, The Price is Right, Nixon, Coca-Cola ads, Cronkite, The Waltons.
As they experience a year of love and transformation in the US, John and Yoko begin to change their approach to protest — ultimately leading to the One to One concert, which was inspired by a Geraldo Rivera exposé they watched on TV.
Filmed in a meticulously faithful reproduction of the NYC apartment the duo shared, “One to One: John & Yoko” offers a bold new take on a seminal time in the lives of two of history’s most influential artists.
“One to One: John & Yoko” will be shown at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres April 18-24. Showtimes will be Friday, April 18 at 3:30 p.m.; Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday, April 19, 20 and 22 at 7:00 p.m.; Monday and Thursday, April 21 and 24 at 4:00 p.m.; and Wednesday, April 23 at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets are $12 general admission, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.