Best Commentary Track on a Blu-ray

[14728]

Just a question I've been wondering about for the past day or so.

[dallywhitty]

The ones for Evil Dead 2 and Resident Evil (there appears to be a theme here) are hilarious.

[Losey]

F.F. Coppola's on The Godfather trilogy is consistently fascinating, so is his commentary on Bram Stoker's Dracula. Guillermo del Toro's are all great, too. Robert Altman was low-key but very interesting as well on the ones he did such as Thieves Like Us, Nasheville, 3 Women and The Player. On a side note, my least favorite director when it comes to commentary tracks is Tim Burton. He always sounds incredibly bored.

[GeoffOliver]

I've always loved the commentary for The Wizard of Oz. It's mostly with film historian John Frickie, but it has some interesting archive clips from the film's cast and crew. Even though Frickie was obviously reading most of what he was saying, the information is still pretty extensive. I think it covers far more ground than any documentary about the film. I've listened to it several times over the years. Sam Staggs' All About Eve commentary is really interesting too. I far prefer commentaries like that that focus on the background and production of a film, instead of "chatty" commentaries with the participants joking around. Actually, I like them better in general with only one participant, as long as they're engaged without too many pauses.

[Michael24]

Any commentary with John Carpenter and Kurt Russell is great.

[harpolini]

Originally Posted by Michael24

Any commentary with John Carpenter and Kurt Russell is great.

Carpenter/Bridges on Starman as well!

[The Debts]

Ridley Scott usually has great commentaries. Bonkers but full of info. There's even a great series of videos that pull funniest bits from them if you want to check them out.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...fl_DqnxEpJgbhw

Originally Posted by Losey

F.F. Coppola's on The Godfather trilogy is consistently fascinating, so is his commentary on Bram Stoker's Dracula. Guillermo del Toro's are all great, too. Robert Altman was low-key but very interesting as well on the ones he did such as Thieves Like Us, Nasheville, 3 Women and The Player. On a side note, my least favorite director when it comes to commentary tracks is Tim Burton. He always sounds incredibly bored.

For that matter, Coppola's track on Apocalypse Now is AMAZING. +1 to Del Toro, too.

[BenOswald]

Spinal Tap

The Limey (any Soderbergh-- 3rd Man, Graduate, Sex/Lies, Traffic)

Chinatown - Fincher and Robert Towne

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is peculiar.

The Proposition - Nick Cave is lol

The Hit (dvd only)

[Petey Parker]

The Drunken Commentary on Orgazmo

[Michael24]

Haven't heard it myself but I've been told the commentary on The Sum of All Fears is great, because author Tom Clancy just constantly rips the movie the whole time, even with the director right there next to him.

Originally Posted by harpolini

Carpenter/Bridges on Starman as well!

I think that's the only Carpenter commentary I've yet to hear. Heard it was great, though.

[Mandalorian]

I've been listening to Guillermo del Toro commentaries lately. Very insightful stuff. And his discs have extensive bts features too.

[The Fallen Deity]

Total Recall (1990). The commentary is hilarious.

[Moviefan2k4]

I love Bob Gale and Neil Canton's tracks, on the Back to the Future trilogy.

[PowellPressburger]

Robert Kolker - Taxi Driver

Roger Ebert - Dark City, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Nick Redman, Lem Dobbs - Double Indemnity and any other TT commentary also featuring Julie Kirgo

John Canemaker featured on Fantasia.

Alan Jones, Kim Newman - Bird with a Crystal Plumage and any others featuring them.

Tim Lucas - Any commentary mainly on Region B locked Bava titles

Hysteria Continues - Listened to their track for Satans Blade Arrow UK BLU last nite loved it.

Tales of Hoffmann - sadly just on the US Criterion DVD only so far.

Bound - love it when Tilly comes into the track out of breath. It's an awesome track

Walter Murch - The Conversation

Carl Macek - Heavy Metal (rough cut version)

Phillip Kaufmann - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Alain Silver and James Ursini - Kiss Me Deadly

Soderbergh, Gilroy - The Third Man

Eddie Mueller Woman on the Run

Alan K Rode - Too Late for Tears

Criterion offers many great commentaries but....

There are also many boring worthless commentaries are out there. Or many with a lot of dead air, like someone should have said please talk! 3 Days of the Condor by the late Sydney Pollack I want to like but I don't think I could ever finish it way too much dead air.

I especially hate when someone just comments on the action on screen, I love William Friedkin but ugh that Vertigo commentary drives me crazy.

[Ruemorgue10]

The commentary track on Used Cars with Kurt Russell, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale is my favorite. Informative but also funny as hell.

[insomniac013]

Originally Posted by The Fallen Deity

Total Recall (1990). The commentary is hilarious.

Arnold's commentary for Terminator 3

[knives>ramona]

Shane Black, Robert Downey Jr., and Val Kilmer on Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Informative and hilarious. They bust each other's chops relentlessly and you can tell how much fun they had in making the film. One of the rare commentary tracks I've ever listened to multiple times.

[Michael24]

Originally Posted by Ruemorgue10

The commentary track on Used Cars with Kurt Russell, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale is my favorite. Informative but also funny as hell.

When I rented that awhile back I listened to a bit of the commentary and it was hilarious. Seriously, I think Kurt Russell should just do commentaries in his spare time, even for movies he wasn't in. The guy is a riot and those fits of laughter are hysterical!

[Race Bannon]

Mike Nichols' commentaries with Soderbergh are fantastic -- The Graduate, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

I love the Conan commentary with John Mietus and Ah-nold.

I was there was a database field about commentaries on here, so we could store all this information about who has done a commentary, etc.

[Dickieduvet]

Michael Winner on The Sentinel, absolutely hilarious.