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John and Yoko looking at the World Trade Center during construction - New York City, ca. 1971

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LennoNYC è la storia della vita di John Lennon negli anni settanta, subito dopo la fine dei Fab Four, e una lettera d’amore alla New York che allora l’accolse, quella del Greenwich Village e della svolta artistica di uno dei più grandi geni della musica del Novecento. Perché la morte può fare tutto, tranne che oscurare un Mito. Il film uscirà in...

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456. American Masters: LennoNYC (2010)

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Stills from LENNONYC.

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The Saddest Documentary on John Lennon's Death

Today is the 31st anniversary of John Lennon's murder outside of The Dakota in NYC. The tragic occasion reminds us of many things, including the multitude of documentaries about Lennon and The Beatles. But there's one doc in particular that's been on my mind today: LennoNYC.

Directed by Oscar nominee Michael Epstein (The Battle Over Citizen Kane), this surprisingly non-redundant film about the musician's final years living in the Big Apple, debuted at the 2010 New York Film Festival, where I was moved nearly to tears. The kicker is the emotional third act, when Lennon starts getting his life back on track, including spending more and more time with his son Sean, only to be suddenly killed.

In my response from NYFF, I wrote that had Sean been in the film discussing those last couple years and the extensive footage of father and son playing and bonding, the audience likely would have been bawling. Yoko Ono is involved and onscreen, however, pouring her heart out like I've never witnessed. Not just about her husband's death but also the pain he caused her in the 70s before and during their separation.

If you've never seen LennoNYC, which won an Emmy Award a couple months ago, I recommend you check it out. And if you have a favorite doc on Lennon or The Beatles, let me know down below.

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all i am saying is give the lennon film without the glorification-of-death finale a chance:

there are few films to do with music now more cinematically redundant than a lennon documentary. nothing feels more familiar, more bankably likeable, and to that end unnecessary as yet another look at the path blazed by arguably the most talented, regrettably forever youngest of the liverpudlian four: a path of direct political and (sometimes) musical righteousness in the decade following that breakup. michael epstein opts to break that mould with a study of lennon's relationship to a city with his latest film, lennonyc. but, like anything else to do with solo lennon, it's really more about yoko ono (the film was made with her endorsement, which really means a lot more of her talking than him).

with a firm enough anecdotal beginning of the freedom lennon found in being able to buy his own bling jacket, lennonyc finds itself in the quickly in a more socio-political context of a nixon-led america that wants him out. unwanted in england, too, where the press had an ugly field day over yoko, the film sketches lennon's fight to remain and live out the constitutional dream in new york, and the personal emotional struggles fraught during a brief separation with his muse.

for the arc and scope of story it tells, and tells considerably well (that being a renewed lennon, in a post-beatles-and-everything-that-entails headspace), lennonyc comes to a natural, understated but nonetheless poignant head with coverage and audio from the previously-unheard double happiness sessions: offering both a thematic resonance and a spotlight on this oft-unappreciated work in lennon's oeuvre. but then the slow fade to black comes, and glaring ambulance sirens blare through the sound system, and the collective sigh is almost audible through it all as cynics like me prepare ourselves for a further 20 minutes of knowin' exactly what we're in for.

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