Documentary

Music

One to One: John & Yoko

Mercury Studios

Plan B / KM Films

United Kingdom

English

John Lennon

Yoko Ono

Stan Bronstein

Dick Cavett

Charlie Chaplin

Shirley Chisholm

Kyoko Ono Cox

Walter Cronkite

Mike Douglas

Bob Dylan

Roberta Flack

Rick Frank

Wayne 'Tex' Gabriel

Allen Ginsberg

Adam Ippolito

Jim Keltner

Robert F. Kennedy

Allen Klein

Pete Kleinow

Timothy Leary

Sean Ono Lennon

Melanie

Elliot Mintz

Pat Nixon

Richard Nixon

Jack Oakie

May Pang

David Peel

Jerry Rubin

John Sinclair

Gary Van Scyoc

George Wallace

John Ward

Andy Warhol

A.J. Weberman

Stevie Wonder

Kevin Macdonald

Sam Rice-Edwards

David Katznelson

Peter Worsley

Alice Webb

Simon Hilton

Steve Condie

David Joseph

Marc Robinson

Brad Pitt

Dede Gardner

Jeremy Kleiner

Melissa Morton Hicks

Lizzie Webster

Bruna Manfredi

Kevin Timon Hill

Tatiana Macdonald

Kelly Sweeney

Isabella Faull

Clare Keogh

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This is quite an eye-opening documentary that uses the 1972 “One to One” concert that John and Yoko did to raise funds for the infamous Willowbrook hospital - where the appalling treatment of kids with learning difficulties turned heads and stomachs in equal measure, to shine a light on Nixon’s United States. Using an astonishing collection of archive of not just this couple, but of newsreels and television content, Kevin Macdonald presents a pretty galling indictment of a society riddled with racism, homophobia and ignorance against a backdrop of a flower power movement determined to stop the war in Vietnam. I suppose Jerry Rubin would have been called an agitator by the authorities, with his vocal and vociferous criticism of all things government, and his relationship with the Lennon’s is also under a spotlight of scrutiny that led to their threatened deportation. By the end of this, and after Nixon’s landslide victory in the election, it isn’t hard to see why the administration wanted shot of the pair - though that might have had more to do with her terrible singing than with his determination to turns weapons into plant pots and release all prisoners. It is still quite a resonating position even now when the naïveté of their grand design appeals on a superficial level but never delivers adequate enough solutions for the general population who still tend to believe what they are told by the folks they vote for, and obviously the timeframe of this feature is well before the full impact of “Watergate” kicks in rather torpedoes that faith. I could have done with more music, and perhaps a little more from the pair about his leaving the “Beatles” and of her own subsequent vilification from just about everyone, but this is still an illuminating look at a society struggling to emerge from the 1960s, showing the simultaneous power and the impotence of protest, and is worth a watch.

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One to One: John & Yoko

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Cast

John Lennon

Yoko Ono

Stan Bronstein

Dick Cavett

Charlie Chaplin

Shirley Chisholm

Kyoko Ono Cox

Walter Cronkite

Mike Douglas

Bob Dylan

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