Sid and Nancy / Embassy Home Entertainment presents ; a Zenith production ; in association with Initial Pictures ; directed by Alex Cox ; produced by Eric Fellner ; written by Alex Cox and Abbe Wool.
Edition:
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
2 videodiscs (113 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Debby Bishop, Andrew Schofield, Xander Berkeley, Perry Benson, Tony London, Sandy Baron, Sy Richardson, Edward Tudor-Pole. Title from title frame. Originally released as a motion picture in 1986. Special features: [disc one]. 2 audio commentaries, one from 1994 with Abbe Wool, Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, Greil Marcus, Julien Temple, Lech Kowalski and Eliot Kidd, and one from 2001 with Alex Cox and Adrew Schofield; "England's glory", a 1987 documentary on the making of "Sid & Nancy"; trailer -- [disc two]. 2016 interview with Alex Cox; Excerpts from Sad vacation, a 2016 documentary about Spungen and Vicious; Interviews with Vicious and Nancy Spungen from the 1980 documentary D.O.A: a right of passage; Rare telephone interview from 1978 with Sid Vicious; 1976 Bill Grundy interview with the Sex Pistols on British television; excerpts from a 1976 episode of the London weekend Show about the London punk scene -- In booklet, an essay by author Jon Savage and a 1986 piece compiled by Cox about Vicious, Spungen, and making of the film.
Contents:
disc one. [Feature film + special features] -- disc two. [Special features].
Summary:
Sid & Nancy chronicles the brief, intense attachment of two of Punk rock's most notorious poster children, Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen.
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