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‘One to One: John & Yoko’ Review: A Revelatory Inside Look at John Lennon, in Concert and in the World
Director Kevin Macdonald channel surfs through the early '70s, luring us into John and Yoko's lives — and the entire period — in an uncanny way.
But “One to One” was made by the accomplished and at times audacious Scottish director Kevin Macdonald, whose films range from “Touching the Void” to “The Last King of Scotland” to “Whitney,” and he lures us into John Lennon’s life, and the entire period, in an uncanny way. We see Nixon, “The Waltons,” the Attica State uprising, Jerry Rubin on “Phil Donahue,” a Ragu commercial, the shooting of George Wallace, the return from exile of Charlie Chaplin, and other events and media tidbits that tweak you with their hanging-in-the-air early-’70s quality. But the event succeeded in springing the White Panther Party founder from his 10-year prison sentence for marijuana, and Rubin, who’d become close to Lennon, got him to agree to collaborate on the Free the People tour, which would be a traveling rock ‘n’ roll circus of protest politics.
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