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MGM Home Entertainment
Directed by: Alex Cox
With the lacerating love story Sid & Nancy, Alex Cox reimagines the crash-and-burn affair between punk’s most notorious self-destructive poster children: Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen—brought to visceral life by brilliant performances from Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb. Cox turns his anarchic filmmaking style on the explosive energy of the London punk scene and the degenerate streets of seventies New York, making for an eviscerating depiction of excess and addiction. Through the lens of cinematographer Roger Deakins, the imagery goes from swooning to grimy, and the film’s bleakness is balanced with surreal humor and genuine tenderness, making for an affecting, music-fueled vision of doomed love.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
DVD
Discs:
DVD-9 (2 Discs)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85:1
Audio Options:
English Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0
English Dolby Digital Surround 5.1
Resolution:
480p/29.97
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Documentary, Television Program, Audio Interview, Documentary Excerpt, Audio Commentary, Interview, Booklet
- Audio commentary by screenwriter Abbe Wool, actors Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb, cultural historian Greil Marcus, filmmakers Julien Temple and Lech Kowalski, and musician Eliot Kidd
- Audio commentary featuring cowriter-director Alex Cox and actor Andrew Schofield
- England's Glory, a documentary on the making of Sid & Nancy
- The infamous 1976 Bill Grundy interview with the Sex Pistols
- A rare telephone interview with Sid Vicious
- Interviews with Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen from D.O.A.: A Right of Passage
- Archival interviews and footage
- An essay by author Jon Savage and a 1986 piece compiled by Alex Cox about Vicious, Spungen, and the making of the film
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Release Notes on Restoration
Sid & Nancy
Sid & Nancy is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. Black bars at the top and bottom of the screen are normal for this format. Supervised and approved by director of photography Roger Deakins, this new 16-bit 4K digital transfer was created on a DFT Scanity film scanner from the original 35 mm camera negative at Deluxe in Culver City, California. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, and warps were manually removed using MTI Film's DRS, while Digital Vision's Phoenix was used for jitter, flicker, small dirt, grain, and noise management.
The original stereo soundtrack was remastered from the 35 mm magnetic track. Clicks, thumps, hiss, hum, and crackle were manually removed using Pro Tools HD and iZotope RX.
The original stereo soundtrack was remastered from the 35 mm magnetic track. Clicks, thumps, hiss, hum, and crackle were manually removed using Pro Tools HD and iZotope RX.