Directors doing commentary on movies they did not direct?
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Directors doing commentary on movies they did not direct?
It seems as if I've run into a few of these recently (Scorsese on Tales of Hoffmann, Bogdonavich on Land of the Pharoahs, Soderbergh on The Third Man and Billy Budd).
Some others anyone can recall?
Some others anyone can recall?
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Soderbergh loves Mike Nichol's films. He also participates on commentaries for Catch-22, The Graduate, and Who's Afraid of Viriginia Woolf?
Scorsese's commentaries from the laserdisc era are ported over on Criterion's dvd releases of Black Narcissus and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
Scorsese's commentaries from the laserdisc era are ported over on Criterion's dvd releases of Black Narcissus and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
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Kevin Smith on Donnie Darko
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In addition to the ones you mention, Soderbergh has done commentaries (sometimes alone, other times with a friend) on quite a few others: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Keane, Catch-22, the Graduate, Point Blank, Seabiscuit...
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I think Bogdanovich also did one for Citizen Kane
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Is Kevin Smith's 'Donnie Darko' commentary any good? I've been considering upgrading to the DC and if his commentary is worth a lesson it might entice me to purchase said DVD.
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Originally Posted by critterdvd
Is Kevin Smith's 'Donnie Darko' commentary any good? I've been considering upgrading to the DC and if his commentary is worth a lesson it might entice me to purchase said DVD.
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John Carpenter also discussed various scenes on "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".
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Tarantino needs to do commentary on Natural Born Killers.
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William Friedkin on The Leopard Man and on one of the Warner Film Noir releases. Anyone?
John Carpenter on the The Thing from Another World (1951) on the recent R2 SE, which he paid Universal to let him do! Great track.
John Carpenter on the The Thing from Another World (1951) on the recent R2 SE, which he paid Universal to let him do! Great track.
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A few that I know about:
Bogdonavich on "The Lady from Shanghai"
Tarantino (with Jack Hill) on "Switchblade Sisters"
A bit of a stretch, but Gary Graver (with Oja Kodar) on "F for Fake"
Bogdonavich on "The Lady from Shanghai"
Tarantino (with Jack Hill) on "Switchblade Sisters"
A bit of a stretch, but Gary Graver (with Oja Kodar) on "F for Fake"
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Originally Posted by Gordon McMurphy
John Carpenter on the The Thing from Another World (1951) on the recent R2 SE, which he paid Universal to let him do! Great track.
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Bogdanovich also did one on The Searchers.
The upcoming Eyes Wide Shut edition has one with Sydney Pollack, although he had an acting part in the film.
There's one I can't remember the name of, and I would like to hear, where Francis Ford Coppola does a commentary for something he has never seen. I think it was a set of short films or a documentary.
The upcoming Eyes Wide Shut edition has one with Sydney Pollack, although he had an acting part in the film.
There's one I can't remember the name of, and I would like to hear, where Francis Ford Coppola does a commentary for something he has never seen. I think it was a set of short films or a documentary.
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Originally Posted by Gordon McMurphy
William Friedkin on The Leopard Man and on one of the Warner Film Noir releases. Anyone?
John Carpenter on the The Thing from Another World (1951) on the recent R2 SE, which he paid Universal to let him do! Great track.
John Carpenter on the The Thing from Another World (1951) on the recent R2 SE, which he paid Universal to let him do! Great track.
Friedkin did the commentary for The Narrow Margin



