StudioCanal will add two new titles to its Vintage Classics series: Alex Cox's
Sid and Nancy (1986), starring Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, Andrew Schofield, David Hayman, and Courtney Love, and John Schlesinger's
A Kind of Loving (1962), starring Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird, James Bolam, and Bert Palmer.
Sid & Nancy
Synopsis: It's 1977 and The Sex Pistols have taken the music world by storm with lead singer Johnny Rotten (Andrew Schofield) and bass guitarist Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman) enjoying all the spoils that fame and money have to offer. Vicious embarks on a relationship with an American groupie – Nancy (Chloe Webb) - who has come to London to pursue him but the couple's increasing drug use frays relationships with Johnny and the rest of the band. With Nancy in tow, The Sex Pistols embark on a chaotic tour US tour which ends in disaster with the band breaking up. Vicious attempts to start a solo career, with Nancy as his manager, but by now both are dangerously addicted to heroin. The two continue in a downward, destructive spiral until, in October 1978 at the Chelsea Hotel in New York, Nancy is found stabbed with Sid lying prostrate at her side. Arrested and accused of murder, he dies of an overdose before his trial.
STREET DATE: AUGUST 29.
A Kind of Loving
Synopsis: 1962 acclaimed 'Kitchen Sink' drama; A Kind of Loving was adapted from the Stan Barstow Novel of the same name. Directed by John Schlesinger (Darling, Midnight Cowboy), the film stars Alan Bates as Vic Brown, a young draughtsman, whose search for love leads to Ingrid Rothwell (June Ritchie, in her screen debut), an employee in the company. Ingrid quickly falls in love with Vic, only to find herself falling pregnant and Vic reluctantly agrees to marry her. Finding himself forced into a life he never wanted, Vic resents Ingrid and the position he finds himself in. Ingrid ends up losing the baby and Vic, spurred on by the acid tongue remarks of his sour mother in law (Thora Hird) decides to run away.
Special Features:
- Interview with writer and broadcaster Stuart Maconie (author of Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England and Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North)
- A Kind of Loving & The British New Wave featurette including interviews with John Hill and Melanie Williams
- NFT interview with John Schlesinger from 1988
- Terminus: Oscar-winning short film directed by John Schlesinger in 1962
- Original Trailer
STREET DATE: AUGUST 1.