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  • BURDEN OF DREAMS Commentary

    This commentary features director Les Blank, editor and sound recordist Maureen Gosling, and director Werner Herzog. Blank and Gosling were recorded together in San Francisco in September 2004. Herzog was recorded in Los Angeles in January 2005.

  • BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL Commentary

    This commentary track, recorded in February 2023, features restoration producer Lino Meireles.

  • SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS Commentary

    Recorded in 2010, this commentary features film scholar James Naremore, author of the BFI Film Classics series’ “Sweet Smell of Success.”

  • GIRLFIGHT Commentary

    This commentary track, recorded in 2001, features writer-director Karyn Kusama.

  • THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK Commentary

    The following audio commentary features director and coeditor Robert Epstein, coeditor Deborah Hoffmann, and photographer Daniel Nicoletta. Originally recorded in 2004, it has been remastered by Criterion to include new material.

  • FOR ALL MANKIND Commentary

    This audio commentary by filmmaker Al Reinert and astronaut Eugene Cernan was recorded in 1999. A veteran of three missions—including Apollo 17, on which he served as commander—Cernan was the last man to set foot on the lunar surface, in 1972.

  • AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON Commentary

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

  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • 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 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.

  • A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS Commentary

    Recorded in 2003, this commentary features Donald Richie, prominent Japanese-film historian and author of Ozu.

  • PICKPOCKET Commentary

    Recorded in 2005, this audio commentary features James Quandt, senior programmer at TIFF Cinematheque and editor of “Robert Bresson.”

  • YI YI Commentary

    This commentary features writer-director Edward Yang and noted Asian-cinema critic Tony Rayns in conversation.

  • M Commentary

    Recorded in 2004, this commentary features University of California at Berkeley professor Anton Kaes, author of the BFI Film Classics volume on M, and Harvard University professor of German Eric Rentschler, author of “The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife.”

  • THIEF Commentary

    Recorded in 1995, this audio commentary features director Michael Mann and actor James Caan.

  • SMITHEREENS Commentary

    This commentary featuring director Susan Seidelman was recorded in 2004.

  • BRUTE FORCE Commentary

    Record in 2007, this commentary features Alain Silver and James Ursini, coauthors of “The Film Noir Reader” and “The Noir Style.”