Acting

John Sinclair

Born October 2, 1941 · Flint, Michigan, USA

Died April 2, 2024 · aged 82

As an emerging young poet in the mid-1960s, Sinclair took on the role of manager for the Detroit rock band MC5. The band's politically charged music and its Yippie core audience dovetailed with Sinclair's own radical development. In 1968, while still working with the band, he conspicuously served as a founding member of the White Panther Party, a militantly anti-racist socialist group and counterp…

Known For

Gimme DangerGimme Danger · 2016
Gimme Danger
6.92016
MovieDocumentaryMusic
No other band in rock'n'roll history has rivaled The Stooges' combination of heavy primal throb, spiked psychedelia, blues-a-billy grind, complete with succinct angst-ridden lyrics, and a snarling, preening leopard of a frontman who somehow embodies Nijinsky, Bruce Lee, Harpo Marx, and Arthur Rimbaud all rolled into one. There is no precedent for The Stooges, while those inspired by them are now legion. The film will present the context of their emergence musically, culturally, politically, historically, and relate their adventures and misadventures while charting their inspirations and the reasons behind their initial commercial challenges, as well as their long-lasting legacy.
John and Yoko: A Love StoryJohn and Yoko: A Love Story · 1985
John and Yoko: A Love Story
6.81985
MovieMusicDrama
Details the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, from before their first meeting to their rise to stardom.
Off the RoadOff the Road · 2007
Off the Road
2007
Movie
Off The Road (directed by Laurence Petit-Jouvet): Peter Kowald on the road in the US, a road movie.
Requiem for Detroit?Requiem for Detroit? · 2010
Requiem for Detroit?
6.42010
MovieDocumentary
A look at post-industrial Detroit and its burgeoning urban agricultural movement.
MC5: Kick Out the JamsMC5: Kick Out the Jams · 1999
MC5: Kick Out the Jams
8.01999
MovieMusicDocumentary
Kick Out the Jams features many never before seen films of the MC5 as created by Leni Sinclair & conceptual artist Cary Loren during the peak of their career. Featuring: Looking At You, Ramblin' Rose, Kick Out The Jams, Black To Comm, I Want You Right Now, Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa), The Pledge Song, Come Together, Starship, Motor City Is Burning, Shakin' Street, John Sinclair Interview 2003

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