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When The U.S. vs. John Lennon first came to the Music Hall this summer, it got rave reviews from the Herald staff that went to see it. It was amazing our government would do something to a rock icon whose one real wish in life was for peace, one colleague said. What did the government do, I wondered and why was is worthy of a movie?

Intrigued with this little nugget of lost rock history, I kicked myself for missing it. But looking at the online schedule to day, though, I can now take the movie out of my Netflix queue.

The Music Hall will also be displaying local rock photographer Joe Stevens' work during the three showings this weekend. If you haven't caught his work during a Button Factory open house or a previous show at Kilim, that alone is worth checking out.

For those who didn't hear about The U.S. vs. John Lennon when it was first released, here's a quick synopsis from the Music Hall site"

"All I ever wated to do was play in a rock and roll band," John Lennon once told a friend. David Leaf and John Scheinfeld's documentary uses archival footage to reveal a program by the Nixon White House and J. Edgar Hoover's F.B.I. to deport Lennon on a phony immigration violation. Both classic and lesser-known Lennon-Ono tunes punctuate this moving, provocative and tragic glimpse of Lennon's history - one we mistakenly imagined we knew all too well.

Show times:
Nov 10, 2006 - 7:30 PM
Nov 12, 2006 - 7:30 PM
Nov 13, 2006 - 7:30 PM
Discussion follows 11/13 show