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Genre: Biography

Duration: 113 Minutes

Rating: R

Sid & Nancy

   

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Part of our Music in Film Series!

One of the great singer-songwriters, an Inuk trailblazer, a punk-rock tragedy, and some of the most hallowed ground in popular music – get rocking with Alysha Main this season and experience these films as they were meant to be seen… and heard! A live performance by a musical guest accompanies each screening.

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.

 

Alysha Main

Alysha Main is a Music Supervisor, Event Manager, DJ, and Podcaster who has worked in the entertainment industry for 20 years. Her career has taken her to Toronto, London, and Melbourne, working in Artist Management, Event Promotion, Sales, and Marketing.  She is the creator and host of the Hamilton Film podcast, documenting the local film industry, and the co-founder of The Hamilton Ladies of Film & TV.  In 2017 she shifted her focus to Music Supervision, studying at Berklee College of Music, and working on film and TV projects in Canada and the USA.  In 2022, she joined the team at the historic Westdale Theatre as Venue & Events Manager.

 

Dave Rave 

Dave Rave, lead singer for Teenage Head, has rocked the world from Hamilton, Ontario Canada to Russia.

New York City based, Dave Rave highlights are: first Canadian artist signed to a Russian Label, he’s worked with U2, Peter Gabriel producer Daniel Lanois and alternative rocker Alex Chilton of Box Tops and Big Star.

Catch him in the Teenage Head documentary Picture My Face.

Dave Rave is currently finalizing the release of his latest album ‘EXIT, Raw, The Dave Rave Project’ due out this Spring. He is also working on an original ‘Shakers’ reunion record due out this winter.

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