One to One: John & Yoko focuses on an 18-month period when John Lennon and Yoko Ono fled a life of luxury in the UK for a relatively humble two-room apartment in New York’s West Village, becoming immediate figureheads for the counterculture and anti-Vietnam War movements, and the go-to couple for almost any activist group needing some celebrity support. At the core of the documentary is the One to One charity concert for special needs children, Lennon’s only full-length performance between the Beatles’ final concert in 1966 and his death. Macdonald and Rice-Edwards’s film is a beautifully edited tapestry of archival material, newsreel, recorded phone calls, tv commercials, and other such cultural flotsam and jetsam that cumulatively captures the tenure of a fraught period in New York City’s political and social history.

There will be Open Caption screenings at 13.00 Friday 11th, and 20.40 on Wednesday 16th.

Notes by David O’Mahony.