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  • THE LIMEY Commentary

    This famously argumentative commentary features director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Lem Dobbs sparring over the choices that Soderbergh made in bringing Dobbs’s script to the screen.

  • THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE Commentary

    This audio commentary, recorded in 1997, features director John Frankenheimer.

  • TARGETS Commentary

    This commentary track, recorded in 2003, features writer and director Peter Bogdanovich.

  • ON THE WATERFRONT Commentary

    This audio commentary features Richard Schickel, author of “Elia Kazan: A Biography,” and Jeff Young, author of “Kazan: The Master Director Discusses His Films.”

  • SECONDS Commentary

    This audio commentary, recorded in 1997, features director John Frankenheimer.

  • AFTER HOURS Commentary

    This commentary track, recorded in 2004, features director Martin Scorsese, actor-producer Griffin Dunne, producer Amy Robinson, director of photography Michael Ballhaus, and editor Thelma Schoonmaker. Additional comments by Dunne and Robinson were recorded in 2023.

  • MY BRILLIANT CAREER Commentary

    Recorded in 2009, this commentary features director Gillian Armstrong.

  • NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD Commentary 1

    This 1994 commentary features NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD cowriter-director-editor George A. Romero, producer-actor Karl Hardman, actor Marilyn Eastman, and cowriter John Russo.

  • NIGHT AND THE CITY Commentary

    Recorded in 2004, this audio commentary features Glenn Erickson, author of the “Film Noir Reader” essay on NIGHT AND THE CITY and editor of the website DVD Savant.

  • THE ASPHALT JUNGLE Commentary

    This 2004 commentary features film historian Drew Casper (“Postwar Hollywood: 1946–1962”) and archival recordings of actor James Whitmore.

  • EL NORTE Commentary

    Director and co-writer Gregory Nava recorded the following audio commentary.

  • THE UNKNOWN Commentary

    This commentary track, recorded in 2023, features author and Tod Browning biographer David J. Skal.

  • WORKING GIRLS Commentary

    This audio commentary by director Lizzie Borden, director of photography Judy Irola, and actor Amanda Goodwin was recorded in 2007.

  • SHAKE! OTIS AT MONTEREY Commentary 1

    The following commentary features music historian Peter Guralnick and was recorded in Boston in the winter of 2002. This commentary is a song-by-song reading of the film.

  • PEEPING TOM Commentary

    In this 1994 commentary, film theorist Laura Mulvey gives her insights on the film’s production history, controversy, and potent psychological obsessions.

  • YOJIMBO Commentary

    Recorded in 2006, this commentary features noted film historian Stephen Prince, author of “The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa.”

  • WRONG MOVE Commentary

    This audio commentary, recorded in 2002, features director Wim Wenders.

  • FARWELL AMOR Commentary

    This commentary, recorded in 2022, features director Ekwa Msangi and director of photography Bruce Francis Cole.

  • THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH Commentary

    This commentary by director Nicolas Roeg and actors David Bowie and Buck Henry was recorded in 1992. Roeg was recorded in October and again with Bowie in November; Henry was recorded in October.

  • THE HARDER THEY COME Commentary

    This commentary by writer-director Perry Henzell and star Jimmy Cliff was recorded in 1999 and 2000.

  • THE GRADUATE Commentary 1

    This 2007 audio commentary features director Mike Nichols in conversation with filmmaker Steven Soderbergh.

  • AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON Commentary

    This audio commentary, recorded in 2005, features David Bordwell, author of “Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema.”

  • THE DAYTRIPPERS Commentary

    This commentary was recorded in June 2019 and features writer-director Greg Mottola, editor Anne McCabe, and producer Steven Soderbergh.

  • FLOATING WEEDS Commentary

    Recorded exclusively for the Criterion Collection in 2003, this commentary is an appreciation of the film by critic Roger Ebert.