On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 01:33, Taylor McLaren wrote:
Honestly, outside of the really detail-oriented niche imprints like Elite or Criterion, I haven't seen too many DVDs that actually *did* reveal anything useful about the movie-making process. Aside from the CGI-intensive flagship titles that provide brief effects documentaries, most of the supplements that I've seen have been electronic press kit excerpts, trailers, and the odd music video... whoo-ha.
A couple of good ones that come to mind are "Waking Life", which has a good demonstration of how the movie was made, and "Terminator 2", which, like "Waking Life", uses the commentary track for interviews with the people who actually worked on the various segments, rather than a film-long ramble. One problem is that I've heard that some companies, WB in particular, refuse to pay people to do the commentaries, thus, to say the least, limiting the quality of what they get. The revived Artists House label appears to be doing amazing packages for CDs, with commentary, transcriptions, etc (though I wish I was as interested in what they're recording now as I was in the Ornette, etc, discs from their previous incarnation): http://www.artistshousemusic.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=17
Even most commentary tracks are just tedious run-throughs of who had a cold when a particular scene was shot, but the occasional gem does turn up that justifies the technology (I love the friendly bull sessions on Elite's Re-Animator and Evil Dead sets). Does anybody know if DVD-Audio supports multiple streams (or channels, or whatever they're properly/technically called) in the same way? The idea of getting some of the people involved in putting an album together to talk about it, and releasing the results as something more substantial than a couple of sentences in "extended liner notes" could work out really well.
-me
PS: Way, way after the fact, the remastered The The albums that Sony put out last year sound brilliant. Dusk practically tears its way out of the speakers now... I'm a very happy bunny.
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