The DVD's
other commentary track, previously available on the original laserdisc release and first DVD (s), has director Singer and writer McQuarrie discussing the film's typical production aspects.
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.
Given his penchant for self - criticism in
other commentary tracks, it's a shame that Boorman did not record one for this release.
It makes for a much more lively experience than a lot of
other commentary tracks.
Not exact matches
Features two
commentary tracks (one by Gervais and Merchant, the
other by stars Christian Cooke, Tom Hughes and Jack Doolan), bonus interviews with the creators and stars, deleted scenes and a blooper reel.
Everything you'd want to know about one of Fincher's movies can be learned in one of his
commentary tracks, which are usually joined by
other excellent and informative bonus features, including a highly reccomended Panic Room
commentary featuring screenwriter William Goldman.
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.
Features both the American and British versions of the film,
commentary track by creator / actor Richard O'Brien and co-star Patricia Quinn, an audience participation picture - in - picture
track with a live version of the show and a «callback» subtitle
track that cues viewers to classic audience responses, featurettes, two deleted musical scenes, outtakes, alternate opening and ending, and
other celebrations of the culture of «Rocky Horror.»
On the
other hand, I found little fault with Pellington's rich
commentary track, a scattershot but ultimately rewarding marriage of thematic survey and production backstory embedded with a pithy defense for the practice of letterboxing.
The
track is both informative and upbeat, not self - absorbed — unlike
other commentaries with producers, directors, and actors all lauding one another.
After seeing the film a second time, it made me want to revisit a few movies set in Los Angeles, including Boogie Nights, The Graduate, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and a few
others, which all feature some
commentary tracks worth listening to.
The C.H.U.D.
commentary track with Daniel Stern and John Heard among
others is one of my favorites.
It comes with three
commentary tracks: the first by Scorsese and editor Thelma Schoonmaker, the second by cast & crew (producer Irwin Winkler, composer Robbie Robertson, actor John Turturro (who was an extra in the film), cinematographer Michael Chapman and
others) and the third by the «storytellers» (Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin, Jason Lustig and Jake La Motta).
Bigelow's interview segments are, regrettably, rehashes of her uninformative
commentary track while most of the
other snapshots are essentially variations of mutual back - patting and unleavened praise.
In 2004, Anchor Bay released a 2 - disc DVD set with no
commentary track, but with an hour - long documentary on Gilliam, a half - hour interview between Gilliam and Palin, trailers, the original screenplay available via DVD - Rom, a fold - out map, and
other goodies.
It includes two
commentary tracks, one by Scorsese and a host of
other contributors, albiet one at a time.
If it lacks spontaneity, it's a more organized telling of the making of the film than side A's
commentary track, and offers
other points of view.
We get a director's
commentary track, a two - hour making - of featurette, and a poster art gallery and trailers for this and
other Lionsgate films.
Since their launch, however, they have started including featurettes and
other supplements from previous DVD releases where possible, and providing original
commentary tracks on select releases.
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.
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.
DVD Details: The 2007 DVD, distributed by the Weinsteins and IFC, includes an audio
commentary track by Dahla and the two writers, a behind - the - scenes featurette (10 minutes), and an interesting before - and - after visual effects comparison, and a trailer for this and
other features.
There are two full - length
commentary tracks — one with director Paul W.S. Anderson, Lance Henriksen and Sanaa Lathan, and the
other with the special / visual effects teams.
Condon, the same Oscar - winning writer of Gods and Monsters, also notes in the
commentary track how a few cues from Strange Behaviour were later re-used by the composers in
other films.
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).
Actresses Embeth Davidtz and recent Oscar nominee Amy Adams more or less reprise (or revert to) their Madeleine / Ashley dynamic for a film - length
commentary track in which they definitely engage each
other more than they do the listener.
This has nothing to do with Crudo's discipline — fellow cinematographer John Bailey came prepared as a historian and film buff and delivered a super
commentary track for Sunrise — but Fox erred in not trimming Crudo's sterile comments down to its essentials, and inter-cutting info from
other, if not more broad - minded film historians.
They are a
commentary track by co - writers / co-directors Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (somewhat funny), a short featurette, «Directing Your Friends,» and a collection of short ads, plus various trailers for
other Sony features.
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.
Presented in a widescreen video transfer and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio soundtrack, the «Man on Fire» DVD includes two full - length audio
commentary tracks (the first by director Tony Scott, and the
other with producer Lucas Foster, screenwriter Brian Helgeland and star Dakota Fanning), as well as deleted scenes and an alternate ending (also featuring optional director
commentary).
On Blu - ray and DVD with two
commentary tracks (one from director Paul Feig and co-writer Katie Dippold, the
other featuring editor Brent White, producer Jessie Henderson, production designer Jeff Sage, visual effects supervisor Pete Travers, and special effects supervisor Mark Hawker), the featurettes «Meet the Team,» «Visual Effects: 30 Years Later,» and «Slime Time,» and «Jokes a Plenty: Free For All,» and a collection of alternate improvisational takes (what was called «Line - o-rama» in Judd Apatow disc releases).
«The Gangland Files» collects many of the disc's extras (including Focus Point mini-featurettes, historical trivia and
other bits) into a picture - in - picture
track that plays alongside the film, while the audio
commentary with director Ruben Fleischer is informative but not terribly engaging.
DVD Details: Sony Pictures Home Video's DVD comes with a Baumbach
commentary track, a featurette, and a collection of trailers for 11
other Sony releases.
On the Criterion blog «On Five,» DVD producer Kim Hendrickson writes about working with Bertolucci on preparing their lavish four - disc edition and Bertolucci's remark that the longer TV version «in my opinion is not much different from the
other one, just a little bit more boring...» According to the
commentary track on the disc, the TV version was actually completed first and then Bertolucci continued to pare down and shape the film to his ultimate version.
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.
Two
commentary tracks likewise grace the feature, one with a self - amused yet aloof Fincher, the
other a patchwork teaming actors Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr. and, from a separate session, producer Brad Fischer, screenwriter James Vanderbilt, and author James Ellroy, who's there strictly as a fanboy of Zodiac and California crime.
This release serves up about 8.5 minutes of deleted and extended scenes presented without context, along with a gallery of trailers for
other Kino releases and a
commentary track with film historians Howard S. Berger and Nathaniel Thompson.
Eschewing even the threadbare
commentary tracks, trailers, and «newsreel footage» to be found on their
other releases, it's a wonder Twilight Time even bothered to create original packaging and didn't just send copies of the film out in CD jewel cases labeled with magic marker.
Features two new
commentary tracks: one by director Lewis Teague and actor Robert Forster, the
other by producer Julie Corman and screenwriter John Sayles.
Haynes revisited the film in November when he recorded a brand new
commentary track with producer Christine Vachon for the film's Blu - ray debut and talked with Videodrone about the revisiting the film, its reverberations with his
other fictionalized biography «I'm Not There» and, as always, what he's been watching.
Features two
commentary tracks (one with director Shelton and actress Delmore and members of the production crew, the
other with actor Duplass and Leonard), a very brief behind - the - scenes featurette, seven deleted scenes and a collection of unused endings.
Reese fans will eat up the Sweet DVD release, which offers a
commentary track (not from her, sorry) and tons of deleted scenes (including a rather cruel original ending — no, she doesn't marry the
other guy; crueler than that).
Supplemental features are anchored by two separate audio
commentary tracks with the Broken Lizard gang; one features Chandrasekhar, Stolhanske and Soter, the
other features Heffernan and Lem me.
Bonus features include an active - screen main menu, an often unintentionally amusing audio
commentary track with Polish - born director Rafal Zielinski, and a pair of interview featurettes — a 10 - minute chat with producer Maurice Smith, who comes across as less skeevy than some of his
other credits (Flesh Gordon) might suggest, and a five - minute talk with production manager Ken Gord.
For the audio, you can choose from two different
commentary tracks; one from Kevin Haug and the
other from visual effects supervisor Kevin Mack.
It gets a superb new high - definition transfer, supervised by cinematographer Dean Cundey, and a new
commentary track with Carpenter and star Jamie Lee Curtis, reuniting for the first time in years («Jamie and I haven't seen each
other in a long time,» remarks Carpenter during the credits) to compare memories and swap stories.
Carried over from the earlier DVD edition are two
commentary tracks (one by co-writer Jean Gruault, Truffaut collaborator Suzanne Schiffman, editor Claudine Bouche, and Truffaut scholar Annette Insdorf, the
other featuring actress Jeanne Moreau and Truffaut biographer Serge Toubiana), excerpts from the 1985 documentary The Key to Jules and Jim about the author Henri - Pierre Roche, an episode of Cineaste de notre temps from 1965 dedicated to Truffaut, and a segment from the series L'Invitie du Dimanche from 1969 with Truffaut, Moreau, and filmmaker Jean Renoir, footage of Truffaut interviewed by Richard Roud at the 1977 New York Film Festival, excerpts from Truffaut's presentation at a 1979 American Film Institute «Dialogue on Film,» a 1980 archival audio interview with Truffaut conducted by Claude - Jean Philippe, video interviews with cinematographer Raoul Coutard and co-writer Jean Gruault, and a video conversation between scholars Robert Stam and Dudley Andrew.
The only
other thing I would like to see was a
commentary track.
It's now available on a Criterion Collection DVD, with
commentary tracks, interviews and
other stuff.
Bonus materials on the 2 - disc R - rated, widescreen Blu - ray / DVD Combo Pack include deleted scenes,
commentary track, new hi - def transfers of several
other kung fu film theatrical trailers (with bonus Bruce Lee trailers), poster and lobby card gallery, bad kung fu dubs, and reversible coverwrap.