Sid & Nancy - Criterion Collection
 | Starring: Sandy Baron, Perry Benson, Xander Berkeley, Debby Bishop, Rusty Blitz Criterion, 1986, DVD Customer Rating: 127 reviews Recommend This product is currently not available and cannot be purchased. It means that we have no merchant offers for this product at the moment or it was discontinued by the manufacturer. |
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A lacerating love story, Sid & Nancy chronicles the brief, intense attachment of two of punk's most notorious poster children, Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. Director Alex Cox balances a bleak evocation of star-crossed love with surreal humor and genuine tenderness, creating a compelling portrait of the late '70s punk scene. With brilliant performances by Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb, the film's haunting imagery and black comedy resonate long after the final frames.
After the cultish success of Repo Man, maverick director Alex Cox made the film that remains his masterpiece — a loud, brash, abrasive, painful, funny, and utterly brilliant screen biography of British punk rocker Sid Vicious and his American girlfriend Nancy Spungen. As played to perfection by Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb, Sid and Nancy are made for each other, serving their mutual strengths and weaknesses and rising with the punk-rock fame of Sid's group, the Sex Pistols, while falling into the ultimately lethal pit of drug abuse. Cox doesn't pull any punches or compromise the unsavory aspects of this passionate love story, so the film presents a harsh mix of emotional and physical anguish tempered by the very poignant and genuine love shared by its tormented central characters. Through it all, the film emerges as an intimate and yet oddly epic chronicle of punk's glory days of anarchic sex, drugs and rock & roll. It's as dynamic and confidently directed as any screen biography before or since, no less fascinating for its unpleasant aspects as for the touching emotions at its very human core. — Jeff Shannon
Title: Sid & Nancy - Criterion Collection
Sales Rank: 86335 in DVD
Actor: Sandy Baron, Perry Benson, Xander Berkeley, Debby Bishop, Rusty Blitz
Studio: Criterion, 1998-10-28, Theatrical Release: 1986-11-07
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC, Acpect Ratio 1.75:1
Languages: English (Original Language)
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 112 minutes
Package Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches, 0.18 pounds
- Not for fans!
- If you're not a Sex Pistols or Sid Vicious fan you could really like this movie, but don't trust anything it shows, it's all lies. The movie was made without the concent of any of the Sex Pistols members, they consolted Joe Strummer from The Clash instead of going to Johnny Rotten. It's all BS! If the movie had… More reviews
- THIS DVD IS NOT OUT OF PRINT!!!
- DONT GET HUSTLED!!! This DVD is for some reason listed as out of print on AMazon. IT ISN'T!!! I just bought a copy from a seller fon here for around $38.00 only to see several copies of it at my local BestBuy two days later for only $15.00! The Sid and nancy Collectors Edition specifically! IT IS NOT OUT OF PRINT!!! Amazon is off!!!!… More reviews
- Overlooked Performances.
- I barely recognized Gary Oldman in this role. He shed double digit pounds for the role and I hear he paid a trip to the hospital for it. That's usually what Acadamy voters usually obsess about. But it's just the beginning point of my argument for Gary. What's more, I sense possession in Gary, a transformation rarely seen in todays, or in the history of film… More reviews
- Punk Super Star Sid Viciousis Great !
- This film got everything you could want.
Gary Oldham is great as super punk star Sid, well Sid was much more handsome, aside from that he does a fantastic job with Sid's character.
Nancy is played by Chloe Webb a very pretty actress who does a great job of imitating Nancy's husky nasal voice but she's really… More reviews
- Punk Super Star Sid Viciousis Great !
- This film got everything you could want.
Gary Oldham is great as super punk star Sid, well Sid was much more handsome, aside from that he does a fantastic job with Sid's character.
Nancy is played by Chloe Webb a very pretty actress who does a great job of imitating Nancy's husky nasal voice but she's really… More reviews
