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  • ONIBABA Commentary

    Recorded in 2001, this audio commentary features director Kaneto Shindo and actors Kei Sato and Jitsuko Yoshimura.

  • HÄXAN Commentary

    Recorded in 2001, this commentary features Danish film scholar Casper Tybjerg, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

  • ISLAND OF LOST SOULS Commentary

    This audio commentary, recorded in New York City in June 2011, features writer and film historian Gregory Mank.

  • NIGHT ON EARTH Commentary: Los Angeles

    Recorded in 2007, this audio commentary features director of photography Frederick Elmes and location sound mixer Drew Kunin.

  • FIVE EASY PIECES Commentary

    This commentary features FIVE EASY PIECES director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson.

  • THE LAST PICTURE SHOW Commentary 1

    This commentary, recorded in 1991, features director Peter Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, and Frank Marshall.

  • THE GRADUATE Commentary 1

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

  • SECONDS Commentary

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

  • CLOSE-UP Commentary

    Recorded in 2009, this commentary features Iranian filmmaker Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and American film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, coauthors of the book “Abbas Kiarostami.”

  • WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS Commentary

    This commentary features Donald Richie, author of "A Hundred Years of Japanese Film, The Films of Akira Kurosawa" and "Ozu: His Life and Films," and was recorded in New York City, in 2004 and 2006.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Laura Mulvey 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.”