It is
a good commentary track though and very informative.
Excellent performance by Duvall - one of his best - with a pretty
good commentary track included as an extra.
Besides a superb 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer that gets the soft, greyish Bill Butler look just right and a Dolby Digital 5.1 mix that fills the room with abstract thunder during each of Dad's «visions,» the disc features three
good commentary tracks and more.
Soderbergh is one of
the better commentary track jockeys around, having talked not just over his own films but been a guest on other film tracks.
During Scott's
best commentary track, for the thriller Man on Fire, he said, «I want to touch these worlds.»
It's one of
the better commentary tracks on a Disney DVD and is definitely worth a listen.
Not exact matches
Commentary: «Despite signals of slower economic growth, we expect positive organic growth to continue the rest of this year and into 2012... These repositioning tailwinds, combined with our great positions in
good industries, execution
track record, and disciplined playbook, will be keys to our continued outperformance.»
Less official streams were available, of course, but for anybody unwilling or unable to
track one down, ITV were
good enough to lay on a text
commentary service.
In fact, enough for an entire second Blu - ray disc: On disc one, there's a
commentary track with star Ian McCulloch and zombie film expert Jay Slater, as
well as trailers, TV and radio spots, and a poster and still gallery.
Best enjoyed on DVD, as the alcohol - fueled commentary track might just be the best one ever recor
Best enjoyed on DVD, as the alcohol - fueled
commentary track might just be the
best one ever recor
best one ever recorded.
Finally, the
best bit of course is the
commentary track from Rodriguez and Antal.
The
best extra is an excellent
commentary track by historians David Del Valle and Stevens Peros.
Special features include audio
commentary with director Michael Ritchie and actress Jean Louisa Kelly, as
well as an isolated score
track and original cut of the film in standard def.
Given that the Russo brothers are also directing the Infinity War films after Captain America: Civil War, look forward to a lot of Blu - ray
commentary tracks by this creative team, saying things like, «
Well, as anyone who saw the fleeting shot of Starfox at the 35:42 mark of the last film knows...»
Toby Roan does a
good job of providing context for every facet of the picture in his
commentary track, with background on the actors, Utah - born director James Cruze, and Emerson Hough, whose novel inspired this story of pioneers heading West in 1848.
Not a problem in of itself (and, in fact, many filmmakers would do
well to follow his lead, as few
commentaries hold any kind of interest aside from the stray tidbit now and again), when the
commentary track is enabled through remote or Special Features menu, as the film plays on into un-commented scenes the regular soundtrack doesn't return.
American Outlaws sports a talker that is among the
best «layman» (that is, «non-critical») ones I've heard, and I've listened to more
commentary tracks than is perhaps healthy.
The main characters and elegant noir atmosphere may be heavily derived from Jean - Pierre Melville's Bob le Flambeur («a great fucking movie,» Anderson gushes on the DVD
commentary track), but Anderson is too smart to let his influences get the
better of him.
Bonus features come by way of a feature - length audio
commentary track with director Amiel, a special making - of documentary, and around 10 other separate featurettes which include a wide array of cast, crew and academic - leaning interviews, as
well as a tour of Darwin's home, which has been turned into a museum.
Its chief supplemental features consist of a feature - length audio
commentary track with director Gauger and a seven - minute behind - the - scenes featurette which includes brief interview snippets with cast and crew, as
well as some audition tape footage.
Director Michael Lembeck pretends in his feature - length yakker that he's made a pseudo-documentary about Santa Claus — a joke that would probably go over
better if any child anywhere had ever expressed interested in listening to a
commentary track (though I'm sure W.D. Richter will get something out of it).
A fan of Requiem for a Dream, Gaghan cribbed that film's composer as
well as its cinematographer, Matthew Libatique; joining Gaghan for a screen - specific
commentary track, Libatique is not afraid of alienating the viewer in name - checking development techniques — as a «Dawson,» I found myself transcribing terms like «cross process» for future reference.
It's surprising to find a movie as major as this with neither audio
commentary nor deleted scenes, especially given Sonnenfeld's
tracks on the first two movies and the undoubtedly
well - supplied cutting room floor that must have resulted from the film's reshoots.
I would have loved to see a
commentary track from this amazing cast as
well.
Tim Lucas provides the
well - researched and always interesting
commentary track.
A
commentary track — apparently recorded some time ago for the laserdisc release — includes chat by the late James Coburn and Donald Pleasence as
well as a much older interview with Sturges.
We have the original 1986 Scorsese
commentary track (presumably recorded for laserdisc), as
well as other
commentary tracks by Schrader and by professor Robert Kolker.
The first disc includes the theatrical release of the film, along with an interesting feature
commentary track by director Marshall and screenwriter Bill Condon, as
well as the deleted musical number «Class,» and a 27 - minute documentary on bringing the musical to the big screen («From Stage to Screen: The History of Chicago»).
This Blu - ray ports over most of the bonus features found on previous discs, including the original 19 - minute making - of featurette from the DVD and a
commentary track with Lee and writer / producer James Schamus, who does a
good job of leading his counterpart through a conversation about the film.
Commentary — God bless director Chris Gorak, who spends the entire
track convinced that The Darkest Hour is a deep,
well - crafted piece of cinema, and not a throwaway action movie with
good special effects and nothing else.
I crave to understand this picture's somewhat literal bleeding heart
better and thought the DVD would be of more assistance — unfortunately, the advertised
commentary track with actors Gregory Hines and Edward James Olmos and director / co-writer Michael Wadleigh is AWOL.
The set itself besides the pretty collectible comes with some new extras including three
commentaries tracks from season one and an exclusive bonus disc with several featurettes as
well as including all the old special features as
well.
On another
track, Savini offers an engaged,
good - natured
commentary that doesn't so much narrate the action as augment it with stuff like, «Those are real tears!»
Carried over from the 2006 DVD release is a
commentary track by film critic Glenn Erickson, which is informative and
well organized, like a lecture and or a formal presentation.
Aside from the alternate version, here we have a running
commentary track with Peter Bogdanovich (who contributes most of the insightful - if - already -
well - acknowledged elements of the film and its place in the Hitchcock legacy), Joseph Stefano, and about two dozen other people.
Two separate
commentary tracks, the first and
best with director Ben Wheatley and co-writer Amy Jump and the second with actors Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, and Michael Smiley, bring some of the film's more obscure passages into
better focus, while a slew of formal interviews with the filmmakers, actors, and producers help illuminate the extent of the work that went into developing the project (Wheatley, for his part, comes across as surprisingly earnest and
well - intentioned, which isn't quite what one expects after watching his film).
Good features found on the previous DVD, including a
commentary track and the storyboard of a lost scene, get ported over to the new edition, where they're joined by a mix of features targeted squarely at kids (A «Bear - E-Oke» sing - along) and designed to promote other Disney ventures, like the Animal Kingdom park.
The
best extra happens to be licensed from an earlier DVD release: the
commentary track featuring director Douglas Cheek, story contributor Shepard Abbott, and actors John Heard, Daniel Stern, and Christopher Curry, who were all recorded together.
The special features including an audio
commentary track from executive producers Barry Bernholtz and Jeffrey Schneck, as
well as producers Peter Sullivan and director John Shepphird.
The first of two
commentary tracks features a
well - spoken Ron Shelton, who details his philosophy and disappointments with the picture while giving no insight as to why he seems to be at his
best when he's at his ugliest.
The new disc comes with a brand - new Tim Lucas
commentary track, as
well as a «Trailers from Hell» episode with Joe Dante, a trailer, a stills gallery, the short story, the Italian opening credits, and alternate music score highlights.
DVD Details: Extras on Lionsgate's DVD include a
commentary track by director Rich Wong and writer / composer / actor H.P. Mendoza, deleted scenes, and trailers for other Lionsgate releases (including the vile
Good Luck Chuck).
This was the only place you could get a
commentary track by Rob Reiner as
well as an alternate
commentary track with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer out of character.
Kwapis also doesn't get a yak
track, only turning up on optional
commentary on the assortment of (understandably) deleted scenes, but given how awkward he sounds, almost as if reading off of a script, perhaps that was a
good thing.
Landau introduces the
track by doing Lugosi introducing the principals in toto as
well as before each of them speaks; it's something that seems like common sense to have a narrator / moderator for large, piecemeal
commentaries, but not too many DVD producers have embraced the practice.
DVD Details: Disc one of Universal's two - disc deluxe set comes with a
commentary track by director Cohen; despite my
best hope, he does not actually apologize for making the worst film of 2008.
The special features include an audio
commentary track with Writer - Director Osgood Perkins as
well as a behind - the - scenes featurette «The Dead of Winter: Making The Blackcoat's Daughter».
The audio
commentaries — which featured Jay Chandrasekhar and Erik Stolhanske on the first
track and Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lem me and Paul Soter on the other
track — were actually pretty
good, so it's nice to see that they've been included on the single - disc Blu - ray release.
Fox Home Video apparently wondered as
well, because instead of the usual two - disc deluxe set with tons of extras, we get only a single disc wtih the bare essentials: a terrific
commentary track by actors Giamatti and Church, deleted scenes (including a blessedly cut sequence about an injured dog), a trailer and a «making - of» featurette that's really just the studio - produced EPK.
There is also an audio
commentary track both Director John Carpenter and Actor Kurt Russell, as
well as another with audio
commentary with Producer Debra Hill and Production Designer Joe Alves.