Who Killed Nancy? – The Movie

Directed by Alan G Parker

Moxie Makers/Soda Pictures/Bill & Ben Productions

Starring;

Glen Matlock/Don Letts/Alan Jones/Mark Helfond/Steve Dior/Elliot Kidd/Hellin Killer/Peter 'Kodick' Gravelle/Malcolm McLaren/Handsome Dick Manitoba/Kenny 'Stinker' Gordon/Steve English/Keith Levene/Sturgis Nikides/Kathleen Wirt/Kris Needs/Alan G Parker/Sid Vicious/Nancy Spungen/John Holmstrom/Howie Pyro/George X/Rev Victor Clitchio/The Sex Pistols Experience/Viv Albertine/Edward Tudor Pole/Lee Black Childers/Neon Leon/Steve 'Roadent' Connolly/Ned Van Zandt/John 'Boogie' Tiberi/Simone Stenfors/Esther Dior….

With Music by;

Steve Diggle/Buzzcocks/Terrorvision/Ricky Warwick/Steve Dior/Neon Leon/Pizzo/London Cowboys and of course Sid Vicious!

World Premier;

The Prince Charles Cinema - West End, London, England.

Monday February 2^nd 2009 – The 30^th Anniversary of Sid Vicious' death. VIP after show party featuring The Sex Pistols Experience and some 'very special guests' follows directly.

Opens in UK cinemas Friday February 6^th 2009

Alan G Parker and selected cast members will be doing Q&A sessions along with screenings of the movie, at selected cinemas across the country in the two weeks following this release.

Movie plus extras to be released on DVD

Monday February 23^rd 2009

Who Killed Nancy? The Reviews
Current mood:  excited
“Full credit to Parker, he got to everyone who matters. Sex Pistols road manager John Tiberi is a welcome contributor but one interviewee stands out above all others. Keith Levene was in the first incarnation of The Clash and in the classic line-up of Public Image Ltd (PiL) before leaving in 1983. ....
Levene has had well-publicised drug problems and disappeared altogether for years. This is the first time I have seen him or heard him speak since his departure from PiL (even Pat Gilbert couldn’t persuade him to contribute to his monumental Clash biog Passion is a Fashion) and it is nice to be able to confirm he is alive and well”.....

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Richard Taylor (The Times)
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“For my money one of the best rock n’ roll documentaries that’s ever been made!”....

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Andrew Loog Oldman (Original Manager of the Rolling Stones)
“What the film does reveal is that, like any great rock myth, the questions surrounding this murder are unlikely to cease with the closing credits. But like all good stories, it’s not so much the ending that counts, more the way you tell it”.....

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Matt Bochenski (Little White Lies Magazine)
“Only one man was or is capable of making enough sense out of this to call it a movie, I’m proud to say that he was the one enlisted with the job, Alan G Parker, the closest thing Sid ever got to a real biographer, and the Northern kid who understood us Southern kids, possibly better than we ever did!”....

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Malcolm McLaren (Original Manager of the Sex Pistols)
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“Alan G Parker's documentary turns the clock back to 1978 to explore the mysterious death of Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sex Pistol's bassist Sid Vicious. As a neon-lit trawl through '70s ....New York...., it's worth a look”.....

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Phillip Wilding (Empire Magazine)
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“The police had no doubt that Sid was the culprit, but after being released on bail twice, for the Nancy case and another, later assault, Sid died of a heroin overdose, thus saving the NYPD an awful lot of paperwork and grief. However, Parker provides a good deal of convincing circumstantial evidence that in court would almost certainly have acquitted Sid on grounds of ‘reasonable doubt’”.....

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Peter Bradshaw (The Guardian) ....
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“Alan G. Parker, clearly lives and breathes his subject and has spent countless hours researching and accumulating material”....

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Jeremy Allen (The Quietus)
“Parker rounds up a decent collection of friends, groupies, roadies, ex-junkies, drug dealers and assorted hangers-on, all of whom seem to have their own theory on whether or not Sid dunnit. He also re-examines the crime scene evidence and unearths a couple of new eyewitness testimonies”. ....

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Matthew Turner (The ....Birmingham.... View)
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“The key is the build-up as director Alan G Parker puts 182 people in front of the camera to paint a vivid picture of the world this tragic prostitute and drug addict moved in”.....

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Stephen Moore (Islington Gazzett)....
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“What Parker does reveal is just how lax the police investigation was. Although six sets of fingerprints from people already known to the authorities were found in the room, none were interviewed. Furthermore, according to witnesses and confirmed by subsequent blood tests, Sid was incapable of wielding a knife that night, having ingested up to 30 powerful sedatives which would have left him dead to the world. A large quantity of money seen in the room earlier in the evening was also mysteriously missing”. ....

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Jamie McLiesh (Film 4)....
“Perhaps most importantly, Who Killed Nancy? draws attention to some of the gaping holes in the lazy assumption made by the NYPD that junkie boyfriend killed junkie girlfriend - case closed. And surely, that's not a bad thing?” ....

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Phil Singleton (God Save the Sex Pistols)....
“Director & Punk Historian Alan G Parker has one .. to clear the name of Sid Vicious – thought by tabloid newspapers and the NYPD to have carried out the deed in a drugged stupor – by exhuming police evidence and extracting testimonies from numerous scenesters and friends of the departed… The torrent of luried anecdotes keeps things moving along nicely”....

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David Jenkins (Time Out)....
“Parker’s investigation is thorough as interviews with 182 of the ill-fated couples associates portray their relationship and the events of  October 12th ..1978 in.. detail. ‘Sid almost definitley didn’t kill Nancy’ would be a more honest title, but there is plenty here to spark the curiosity of anyone interested in the Sex Pistols”....

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Ben Hopkins (Clash Magazine)    ....

 Currently watching:
Who Killed Nancy? [2008]
Release date: 2009-02-23
 
“Parker’s investigation is thorough as interviews with 182 of the ill-fated couples associates portray their relationship and the events of  October 12th ..1978 in.. detail. ‘Sid almost definitley didn’t kill Nancy’ would be a more honest title, but there is plenty here to spark the curiosity of anyone interested in the Sex Pistols”....

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Ben Hopkins (Clash Magazine)    ....

 Currently watching:
Who Killed Nancy? [2008]
Release date: 2009-02-23

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