{"id":3395,"date":"2025-04-08T21:13:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T21:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/one-to-one-john-yoko-inside-john-lennons-life-and-apartment\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T21:13:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T21:13:28","slug":"one-to-one-john-yoko-inside-john-lennons-life-and-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/one-to-one-john-yoko-inside-john-lennons-life-and-apartment\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018One to One: John & Yoko\u2019: Inside John Lennon\u2019s Life (And Apartment)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono in New York in the 1970s Ben Ross and Leonora Golberg\/Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The small color TV that graced the Bank Street apartment John Lennon<\/a> and Yoko Ono<\/a> shared in Greenwich Village from 1971 to 1973 was perched at the end of the bed, a few inches from their toes.\u00a0We know this not just from historical photographs but because in the new documentary\u00a0<\/span>One to One: John & Yoko,<\/span><\/i>\u00a0the filmmakers have built an exacting replica of the place\u2014complete with Snoopy pillowcases\u2014without even bothering to tidy it up. Butts smolder in an overstuffed ashtray while steam drifts off coffee half drunk in a blue Anthora, as if the pair are on a cigarette run and will be back in a jiff.<\/span><\/p>\n

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ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO<\/b> \u2605\u2605\u26051\/2\u00a0<\/strong>(3.5\/4 stars<\/em>)<\/strong>
Directed by:<\/strong> Kevin Macdonald, Sam Rice-Edwards<\/span>
Running time:<\/strong> 105 mins.<\/p>\n\n<\/td>\n

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Between its recreation of that Greenwich Village apartment, its use of archival audio recordings of telephone conversations and its fuzzed-out cutaways to vintage TV clips, <\/span>One to One<\/span><\/i>\u2014which opens this week in IMAX and includes footage of the One to One benefit concert that Lennon and Ono staged at Madison Square Garden in August of 1972\u2014often feels more like a museum installation than journalism.\u00a0But its subject and its music would reward either.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Co-directed by Scottish filmmaker Kevin Macdonald<\/a>\u2014an Oscar winner for <\/span>One Day in September<\/span><\/i>, the 1999 documentary about the murder of Israeli athletes during the 1972 Munich Olympics\u2014<\/span>One to One<\/span><\/i> posits that the stuff pouring out of Lennon and Ono\u2019s TV set was more than just time-wasting entertainment. It seeped deep into the consciousness of the newly married and voraciously curious pair, filling their days with images of John-Boy Walton and Tony the Tiger.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When they weren\u2019t vegging out in front of the telly, Lennon and Ono were devising ways to implement a radical rock & roll agenda with his new friends on the American Left, like anti-war activist Jerry Rubin, while simultaneously dodging the FBI. Nixon\u2019s weaponized government had the pair so under the microscope that, to the filmmakers\u2019 boon, Lennon started documenting his own telephone calls so he would have a record of what the feds were likely taping themselves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n