Criterion carries over two audio commentary tracks, the first recorded in 1994 with co-writer Abbe Wool, cast members Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb, cultural historian Greil Marcus, filmmakers Julien Temple and Lech Kowalski and musician Eliot Kidd. This is more or less a historical track that covers not so much the making of the movie but the scene that it's based on. As such, we get a lot of insight into the early days of the British punk movement and the place that characters like Sid and Nancy held in that scene. Lots of talk here about the rise and fall of The Sex Pistols, Sid and Nancy's time in Manhattan and of course, their inevitable fate. When the track does get film specific it concentrates a lot of the visuals, but also discusses some of the locations used in the picture as well as certain moments when the movie deviates from what is more or less the established truth behind the events the film portrays. The second track, recorded in 2001 features Cox and actor Andrew Schofield. This track is more film specific as Cox walks us through the making of what is surely his best known film even at this point in his career. It's a fairly scene specific track with Schofield talking about what it was like trying to get into character, his interactions with the other cast members and plenty more. Both of these tracks are interesting and worthwhile, albeit for fairly different reasons.

From there we move on to a series of featurettes, starting with a half hour documentary from 1987 entitled England's Glory that serves as a vintage making of piece. This is actually a pretty interesting segment as it not only includes the typical talking head style interviews you'd expect but also uses some footage that was shot on set during the production. Up next is a three minute clip from the 1976 Bill Grundy interview with The Sex Pistols that aired on British television and is recreated in the film. From there, we get a ‘rare telephone interview' from 1978 with Sid Vicious that runs thirteen minutes and which was conducted by photographer Roberta Bayley only five days after The Sex Pistols called it quits. This was also recorded a few days after Vicious had overdosed. Here he talks pretty candidly about various subjects including the end of the band. The audio quality is a little rough in spots but this provides a fairly intimate look into his psyche at the time it was recorded. Continuing with the archival material, Criterion also provided ten minutes of interviews with Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen taken from the 1980 documentary D.O.A.: A Right Of Passage directed by Lech Kowalski. Those who haven't already seen the documentary in full (which is a seriously interesting piece with some amazing footage in it) should check this out as it is quite telling in a lot of ways.

New to this release is a 2016 Interview with Alex Cox that runs twenty-four minutes. This covers some of the same ground that is gone over in the commentary, with Cox discussing shooting the film basically in two parts, the first in London and the second in New York City, and the challenges that this entailed. He also talks about reception to the film and shares some interesting stories from the shoot. We also get a fourteen minute long clip from a November, 1976 episode of The London Weekend Show that features The Sex Pistols and a few random punk rans as host Janet Street-Porter explores the then very new punk phenomenon. Also on hand are fourteen minutes of excerpts from the 2016 documentary Sad Vacation directed by Danny Garcia. Here we get comments on the real life Sid and Nancy from Victor Colicchio, Howie Pyro, Bob Gruen, Ned Van Zandt, Brett Dunford, Kenny Gordon, Roberta Blayley and a few more.

Rounding out the extras on the disc are the film's original theatrical trailer, animated menus and chapter selection.

Included inside the keepcase alongside the Blu-ray disc is an insert booklet that contains an essay by author Jon Savage as well as a piece compiled by Alex Cox in 1986 piece compiled in which he presents various quotes from those who knew the real life Sid and Nancy. There's also cast and crew info in here as well as some technical information about the presentation.

Sid And Nancy is not a perfect film but it holds up well as a rather ridiculous romance of sorts set against the seedy backdrop of the early punk scene. Cox gets more right than wrong, but it's Oldman's performance here that really makes the movie work and which earns the film a recommendation. The Blu-ray reissue from The Criterion Collection is excellent across the board, presenting the film in fantastic shape and with a nice array of extra features old and new. Highly recommended based on the qualities of the film and the strength of the presentation.

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