John Gordon Sinclair

  • Susanna Nicchiarelli – Miss Marx (2020)

    Susanna Nicchiarelli2011-2020DramaItaly
    Miss Marx (2020)
    Miss Marx (2020)

    Bright, intelligent, passionate and free, Eleanor is Karl Marx’s youngest daughter. Among the first women to link the themes of feminism and socialism, she takes part in the workers’ battles and fights for women’s rights and the abolition of child labor. In 1883 she meets Edward Aveling and her life is crushed by a passionate but tragic love story.Read More »

  • Susanna Nicchiarelli – Nico, 1988 (2017)

    2011-2020DramaItalySusanna Nicchiarelli

    The last year of singer Nico’s life, as she tours and grapples with addiction and personal demons.
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    Everyone involved in the creation of ‘Nico, 1988′ deserves a huge amount of praise and respect for creating a film so unflinchingly honest, so authentic. Nico, eternally dressed up in others’ wardrobes, in others’ colours and artistic mirages, has finally been depicted on screen for who she really was, and because Christa Paffgen was infinitely more fascinating than ‘Nico’ (‘Don’t call me Nico, call me by my real name’, she says early in the film to her new Mancunian manager, revealing the agenda of the filmmaking), ‘Nico, 1988’ is truly captivating.Read More »

  • Stephen Frears – Walter & June (1983)

    Stephen Frears1981-1990DramaUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis
    Sequel to Walter (1982).

    Walter (Ian McKellen) is a mentally disabled man who depends on his parents for his survival. So when his mother and father die, Walter’s future is thrown into question. With nowhere to go, Walter is put into a poorly run state mental institution. In these new, harsh surroundings, Walter befriends a schizophrenic woman named June (Sarah Miles). As their bond grows, the pair’s affection turns to romance — and soon they plot their escape from the hospital, hoping to begin a new life in London.Read More »

  • Michael Whyte – Your Cheatin’ Heart (1990)

    Drama1981-1990BBCMichael WhyteTVUnited Kingdom

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    Scottish playwright John Byrne’s follow-up to the great Tutti Frutti of 1987, was another distinctive, music-themed series. But, whereas Tutti Frutti was about rock ‘n’ roll, 1990’s Your Cheatin’ Heart revolved around the country music and rockabilly scene. The tale contains all the traditional ingredients of the archetypal Western: a defiant woman alone with her husband in gaol, a guileless stranger who finds the courage enough to help save the day, murders, and a series of down and dirty bad men. There’s just one thing…it’s set in modern day Glasgow. But don’t forget it was Celtic music played by the Scottish and Irish immigrants in the frontier towns of the new world that helped shape American country music.Read More »

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