Holly and I do love commentary tracks … Holly loves them in general, and I love them when I also love the movie in question and really want to know all about the production of it. Case in point: “Lord of the Rings.” Some of the commentaries we talked about:

• All of the “Lord of the Rings” ones. There are many.
• “Fight Club” and the very cerebral commentary of Ed Norton
• “Titanic” and commentary revelations about where the drowning foggy breath came from
• The “Sense and Sensibility” commentary with Emma Thompson
• The “Galaxy Quest” commentary that’s all in Thermian
• The unlockable “Portal” commentary
• Episode commentaries on “Buffy” episodes, and spoilers of future episodes in episode commentaries
• Zack Snyder’s audio/visual commentaries
• The downloadable “Looper” commentary, and Kevin Smith’s attempt to do the same with “Clerks II”
• Onion AV Club’s “Commentary Tracks of the Damned,” and the “John Carter” commentary
• Movies made early enough in the era of DVDs, which were not filmed with DVD extras in mind
• Critics’ commentary tracks by Roger Ebert
• The “Brave” commentary and its uncharacteristic loud and exciting-ness
• Kevin Smith’s commentaries, and Jason Mewes’ presence therein
• Robert Zemeckis commentaries as a master class in filmmaking
• Werner Herzog’s voice
• The “True Romance” commentary and its effect on Holly’s thoughts on Quentin Tarantino
• The “Spinal Tap” in-character commentary, and all the other Christopher Guest commentaries
• TV commentary tracks, including “Futurama” (of course)
• The “Home Movies” commentaries
• “Paranorman”
• Listener mail! Kat with a “K” writes about our massage episode
• Episode link: PopStuff’s Commentary Bonus Feature

My research:

• Uhhh … I watched some commentaries.

Holly’s research:

• Directors and DVD Commentary: The Specifics of Intention
• The DVD and the Study of Film: The Attainable Text
• The Versatility of Visualization: Delivering Interactive Feature Film Content on DVD.
• ‘Looper’ Director Offers Downloadable ‘In-Theater’ Commentary Track

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