Top 5 DVD Commentary Tracks Redux
1. El Mariachi (Robert Rodriguez) - I think because I want to make movies but did not go to film school, this is the commentary that says I'm OK. Not only that, it tells me I'm better off, that I'm practically famous already, and that there is a direct correlation between not owning a good tripod and living in a castle surrounded by a moat.
2. Evil Dead (Bruce Campbell) - While Evil Dead 2 commentary is hillarious, Bruce's lone commentary is more insightful without Sam's one-liners (although they are missed).
3. Boogie Nights (P.T. Anderson) - P.T. states that he learned everything about making movies from watching laser disc commentaries. His commentary track is imbued with a sense of loving duty.
4. Citizen Kane (Roger Ebert) - Tough call between this track and Ebert's Cassablanca commentary. Both are a full throttle, non-stop education. There were two courses in college where I said to myself, "I would buy tickets on ticketmaster to attend a lecture by this guy." Citizen Kane commentary is such a class.
5. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola) - I'm sure God, before writing the bible, started out with a notebook with a label on it saying "If found please return to God."
posted by Mike @ 12:38 PM
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"Sense of loving duty?" Doesn't PT start the track by saying, "This is my reluctant commmentary for Boogie Nights."
That is true. I think he agrees to do commentary out of a reluctant sense of duty but as he proceeds I here only love in his voice.
I prefer the group commentary track on the Boogie Night DVD for three reasons: 1) Marky Mark planning a trip to the Caribbean during his conversation with PT, and generally acting as if he were a 12-year-old whose principal had just come over to his house on a Saturday afternoon to "hang out;" 2) Melora Walters (in a dialogue filled with so much echo you'd think they recorded it in the Carlsbad Caverns) fighting to be heard over her toddler's freakishly loud babblings; 3) the story, alternately told by Marky and John C. Reilly, about the completely random fight that happened on set between those two.
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