{"id":23117,"date":"2026-05-18T04:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/john-lennon-the-last-interview-review-soderbergh-imagines-theres-no-people-with-bland-ai-clipshow\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T04:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:37:14","slug":"john-lennon-the-last-interview-review-soderbergh-imagines-theres-no-people-with-bland-ai-clipshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/john-lennon-the-last-interview-review-soderbergh-imagines-theres-no-people-with-bland-ai-clipshow\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lennon: The Last Interview review \u2013 Soderbergh imagines there\u2019s no people with bland AI clipshow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cannes film festival:<\/strong> Succession of pointless AI-generated snippets does nothing for film about the artist\u2019s final interview, which took place on the day of his murder<\/p>\n

Coming just after his superb feature The Christophers<\/a>, Steven Soderbergh has now made a surprisingly moderate documentary, dominated and frankly marred by uninteresting and pointless AI. It is about the inadvertently poignant final interview given by John Lennon and Yoko Ono on 8 December 1980 in New York\u2019s Dakota apartment building, hours before his death.<\/p>\n

The interviewers were Dave Sholin, Laurie Kaye and Ron Hummel from San Francisco\u2019s KFRC radio station. On their way out of the building with the conversation on tape, they were accosted by a creepy stalker-fan; in attempt to calm the man down, Kaye gave him a brand new copy of John and Yoko\u2019s new album Double Fantasy. This sinister man was Lennon\u2019s future murderer who got him to sign an album \u2013 perhaps this very album \u2013 and later shot him dead. It is a chilling, stomach-turning twist of fate, although the film avoids emphasising the interview\u2019s obviously macabre context, understandably preferring a positive emphasis. Inevitably, though, the unacknowledged irony flavours what we see and hear: a fundamentally happy, hopeful man looking forward to the future, behind whom a dark shadow is looming.<\/p>\n

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\nCannes film festival: Succession of pointless AI-generated snippets does nothing for film about the artist\u2019s final interview, which took place on the day of his murder
\nComing just after his superb feature The Christophers, Steven Soderbergh has now made a surprisingly moderate documentary, dominated and frankly marred by uninteresting and pointless AI. It is about the inadvertently poignant final interview given by John Lennon and Yoko Ono on 8 December 1980 in New York\u2019s Dakota apartment building, hours before his death.
\nThe interviewers were Dave Sholin, Laurie Kaye and Ron Hummel from San Francisco\u2019s KFRC radio station. On their way out of the building with the conversation on tape, they were accosted by a creepy stalker-fan; in attempt to calm the man down, Kaye gave him a brand new copy of John and Yoko\u2019s new album Double Fantasy. This sinister man was Lennon\u2019s future murderer who got him to sign an album \u2013 perhaps this very album \u2013 and later shot him dead. It is a chilling, stomach-turning twist of fate, although the film avoids emphasising the interview\u2019s obviously macabre context, understandably preferring a positive emphasis. Inevitably, though, the unacknowledged irony flavours what we see and hear: a fundamentally happy, hopeful man looking forward to the future, behind whom a dark shadow is looming. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cannes film festival: Succession of pointless AI-generated snippets does nothing for film about the artist\u2019s final interview, which took place on the day of his murder Coming just after his superb feature The Christophers, Steven Soderbergh has now made a surprisingly moderate documentary, dominated and frankly marred by uninteresting and pointless AI. It is about …<\/p>\n

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