Director Steven Soderbergh ("Sex, Lies, and Videotape," "Ocean's Eleven") has finished a documentary focused on the interview John Lennon and Yoko Ono gave to RKO Radio on the day Lennon was killed.
The director said he's created the still-untitled documentary “in such a way that it enhances the interview and doesn’t distract from it. I’m not looking to re-invent the form. I’m just hoping to create a film that gets as many people as possible to hear what John and Yoko had to say on that afternoon before he was killed,” Variety.
“They were both so free in their discussions. As someone who has been interviewed many times I was surprised at how open and excited they were to talk,” he said. “You would think they had never been interviewed before.”
“So I want that to come across to the audience. Everything that they said 45 years ago is not just relevant today. It’s even more relevant in terms or relationships, politics, how we treat each other. How systems work on the individual and above all on the importance of love in our daily life and our world."
John and Yoko spoke to RKO reporters at their home in New York's Dakota building several hours before Lennon was shot dead.
Another documentary about Lennon's final years, "Living on Borrowed Time: Lennon's Last Decade," by Alan G. Parker, is set for release on Dec. 8, the anniversary of Lennon's death in 1980.
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