Current top 100 commentary tracks

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1. Serial Mom -- Commentary track: Writer/director John Waters. Rating: 9.6

2. Mr. Arkadin -- Commentary track: Film scholars Jonathan Rosenbaum and James Naremore. Rating: 9.5

3. Dog Day Afternoon -- Commentary track: Director Sidney Lumet. Rating: 9.2

4. The Green Mile -- Commentary track: Director Frank Darabont. Rating: 9.2

5. A Clockwork Orange -- Commentary track: Actor Malcolm McDowell and historian Nick Redman. Rating: 9.1

6. Pink Flamingos -- Commentary track: Writer/director John Waters. Rating: 9.0

7. Supernatural: The Complete First Season -- Commentary track: "Phantom Traveler" -- Actors Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles. Rating: 9.0

8. This Is Spinal Tap (Criterion) -- Commentary track: Writers/actors Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer. Rating: 8.8

9. Pecker -- Commentary track: Writer/director John Waters. Rating: 8.8

10. A Dirty Shame -- Commentary track: Screenwriter/director John Waters. Rating: 8.8

11. The Graduate (Laserdisc) -- Commentary track: Film historian Howard Suber. Rating: 8.7

12. Ikiru -- Commentary track: Akira Kurosawa film historian Stephen Prince. Rating: 8.7

13. Ran -- Commentary track: Film historian Stephen Prince. Rating: 8.7

14. Escape From New York -- Commentary track: Director John Carpenter and actor Kurt Russell. Rating: 8.7

15. The Red Shoes -- Commentary track: Film historian Ian Christie, featuring interviews with actors Marius Goring and Moira Shearer, Jack Cardiff, composer Brian Easdale, and Martin Scorsese. Rating: 8.7

16. Brazil -- Commentary track: Director Terry Gilliam (on disc 1, the director's cut of the film). Rating: 8.6

17. 12 Monkeys -- Commentary track: Director Terry Gilliam and producer Chuck Roven. Rating: 8.6

18. The Godfather -- Commentary track: Director Francis Ford Coppola. Rating: 8.6

19. American Splendor -- Commentary track: Directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, actor Paul Giamatti, Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, and Toby Radloff. Rating: 8.6

20. Sanjuro -- Commentary track: Film historian and Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince. Rating: 8.6

21. The Exorcist -- Commentary track: Director William Friedkin. Rating: 8.6

22. Superbad -- Commentary track: Director Greg Mottola, screenwriter Evan Goldberg, actors Seth Rogen, Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jonah Hill, producer Judd Apatow, and Apatow's nine-year-old daughter Maude. Rating: 8.6

23. Brother Bear -- Commentary track: Actors Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis (in character as Rutt and Tuke, respectively). Rating: 8.6

24. A History of Violence -- Commentary track: Director David Cronenberg. Rating: 8.6

25. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring -- Commentary track: Director Peter Jackson, and writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. Rating: 8.6

26. The Thing -- Commentary track: Director John Carpenter and actor Kurt Russell. Rating: 8.6

27. Serenity -- Commentary track: Screenwriter/director Joss Whedon. Rating: 8.6

28. Boyz N the Hood -- Commentary track: Director John Singleton. Rating: 8.6

29. The Mission -- Commentary track: Director Roland Joffe. Rating: 8.6

30. Deliverance -- Commentary track: Director John Boorman. Rating: 8.6

31. The Fisher King (Laserdisc) -- Commentary track: Director Terry Gilliam. Rating: 8.6

32. Blade Runner -- Commentary track: Director Ridley Scott. Rating: 8.5

33. Yojimbo -- Commentary track: Film historian and Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince . Rating: 8.5

34. Aliens -- Commentary track: Director James Cameron, producer Gale Anne Hurd, creature wizard Stan Winston, visual effects supervisors Robert and Dennis Skotak, miniature effects supervisor Pat McClung, and actors Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen Jenette Goldstein, Carrie Henn, and Christopher Henn. Rating: 8.5

35. Halloween -- Commentary track: Writer/Director John Carpenter, actor Jamie Lee Curtis and writer/producer Debra Hill. Rating: 8.5

36. Citizen Kane -- Commentary track: Film critic Roger Ebert. Rating: 8.5

37. Monty Python's Life of Brian -- Commentary track: Director Terry Jones, and actors Terry Gilliam and Eric Idle. Rating: 8.5

38. The French Connection -- Commentary track: Director William Friedkin. Rating: 8.5

39. Thief -- Commentary track: Director Michael Mann and actor James Caan. Rating: 8.5

40. The Perfect Storm -- Commentary track: Sebastian Junger, writer of source novel "The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea". Rating: 8.5

41. The In-Laws -- Commentary track: Director Arthur Hiller, screenwriter Andrew Bergman, and actors Peter Falk and Alan Arkin. Rating: 8.5

42. The Iron Giant -- Commentary track: Director/writer Brad Bird, animation department head Tony Fucile, story department head Jeffrey Lynch and storyboard artist/lead character animator Steve Markowski. Rating: 8.5

43. Double Indemnity -- Commentary track: Screenwriter Lem Dobbs and film historian Nick Redman.. Rating: 8.5

44. Full Metal Jacket -- Commentary track: Actors Adam Baldwin, Vincent D’Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey and Jay Cocks. Rating: 8.5

45. The Shining -- Commentary track: Authors Garrett Brown and John Baxter. Rating: 8.5

46. Juno -- Commentary track: Director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody. Rating: 8.5

47. Alien -- Commentary track: Director Ridley Scott. Rating: 8.5

48. This Is Spinal Tap (MGM) -- Commentary track: Spinal Tap: Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer), David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), and Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest). Rating: 8.5

49. El Mariachi -- Commentary track: Director Robert Rodriguez. Rating: 8.5

50. Tideland -- Commentary track: Screenwriter/director Terry Gilliam. Rating: 8.5

51. The Godfather: Part II -- Commentary track: Director Francis Ford Coppola. Rating: 8.5

52. Clerks (10th Anniversary Edition) -- Commentary track: Writer/director/actor/producer/editor Kevin Smith, actor/producer/editor/sound editor Scott Mosier and actors Jeff Anderson, Brian O'Halloran and Jason Mewes. Rating: 8.4

53. Frankenstein -- Commentary track: Film historian Rudy Behlmer. Rating: 8.4

54. Without a Paddle -- Commentary track: Director Steven Brill and actors Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, Dax Shepard, Ethan Suplee, and Abraham Benrubi. Rating: 8.4

55. UHF -- Commentary track: Director Jay Levy, actor/co-writer "Weird Al" Yankovic, and actors Michael Richards, Emo Phillips, and Victoria Jackson. Rating: 8.4

56. Monsters, Inc. -- Commentary track: Director Pete Doctor, co-director Lee Unkrich, and executive producers John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton. Rating: 8.4

57. Silence of the Lambs -- Commentary track: Director Jonathan Demme, actors Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, screenwriter Ted Tally, and FBI agent John Douglas. Rating: 8.4

58. Moonstruck -- Commentary track: Actor Cher, director Norman Jewison, and writer John Patrick Shanley. Rating: 8.4

59. Used Cars -- Commentary track: Director/writer Robert Zemeckis, producer/writer Bob Gale, and actor Kurt Russell. Rating: 8.4

60. Firefly: The Complete Series -- Commentary track: "Objects in Space" -- Director/writer/executive producer Joss Whedon. Rating: 8.4

61. JFK -- Commentary track: Director Oliver Stone. Rating: 8.4

62. Seven Samurai -- Commentary track: Japanese film expert Michael Jeck. Rating: 8.4

63. To Live and Die in L.A. -- Commentary track: Director William Friedkin. Rating: 8.4

64. Legend -- Commentary track: Director Ridley Scott. Rating: 8.4

65. Thelma & Louise -- Commentary track: Director Ridley Scott. Rating: 8.4

66. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory -- Commentary track: The Wonka Kids: Actors Peter Ostrum, Julie Dawn Cole, Denise Nickerson, Paris Themmen, and Michael Bollner. Rating: 8.4

67. His Girl Friday -- Commentary track: Film critic and author Todd McCarthy. Rating: 8.4

68. Nixon -- Commentary track: Director Oliver Stone. Rating: 8.4

69. All the President's Men -- Commentary track: Actor Robert Redford. Rating: 8.4

70. Little Miss Sunshine -- Commentary track: Directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and screenwriter Michael Arndt. Rating: 8.4

71. Panic Room -- Commentary track: Screenwriter David Koepp and special guest William Goldman. Rating: 8.4

72. Dead Ringers -- Commentary track: Director David Cronenberg, actor Jeremy Irons, editor Ronald Sanders, production designer Carol Spier, and director of photography Peter Suschitzky. Rating: 8.4

73. Zodiac -- Commentary track: Actors Jake Gyllenhall and Robert Downey Jr, producer Brad Fischer, screenwriter James Vanderbilt and writer James Ellroy. Rating: 8.4

74. Casablanca -- Commentary track: Film critic Roger Ebert. Rating: 8.4

75. Out of Sight -- Commentary track: Director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Frank. Rating: 8.4

76. Slacker -- Commentary track: Director Richard Linklater, and cast and crew members. Rating: 8.4

77. Cabin Fever -- Commentary track: Writer/director Eli Roth. Rating: 8.4

78. Platoon -- Commentary track: Military supervisor Capt. Dale Dye. Rating: 8.4

79. Throne of Blood -- Commentary track: Japanese film expert Michael Jeck. Rating: 8.3

80. Road to Perdition -- Commentary track: Director Sam Mendes. Rating: 8.3

81. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -- Commentary track: Director/screenwriter Terry Gilliam. Rating: 8.3

82. Alien (Collector's Edition) -- Commentary track: Director Ridley Scott, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon, executive producer Ronald Shusett, editor Terry Rawlings, and actors Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, and John Hurt. Rating: 8.3

83. Army of Darkness -- Commentary track: Director Sam Raimi, actor Bruce Campbell, and co-writer Ivan Raimi. Rating: 8.3

84. The Haunting -- Commentary track: Director Robert Wise, screenwriter Nelson Gidding, and actors Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, and Russ Tamblyn. Rating: 8.3

85. Manhunter -- Commentary track: Director Michael Mann. Rating: 8.3

86. The Limey -- Commentary track: Director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Lem Dobbs. Rating: 8.3

87. Road House -- Commentary track: Filmmakers and "Road House" aficionados Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier. Rating: 8.3

88. Blade Runner -- Commentary track: "Visual futurist" Syd Mead, production designer Lawrence G. Paull, art director David L. Snyder, and special photographic effects supervisors Douglas Trumbull, Richard Yuricich, and David Dryer. Rating: 8.3

89. Titanic -- Commentary track: Director James Cameron. Rating: 8.3

90. Evil Dead II -- Commentary track: Director/co-writer Sam Raimi, actor Bruce Campbell, co-writer Scott Spiegel, and special effects make-up artist Greg Nicotero. Rating: 8.3

91. Zodiac -- Commentary track: Director David Fincher. Rating: 8.3

92. Pan's Labyrinth -- Commentary track: Director Guillermo del Toro. Rating: 8.3

93. Boogie Nights -- Commentary track: Director Paul Thomas Anderson. Rating: 8.3

94. Apocalypse Now -- Commentary track: Screenwriter/director Francis Ford Coppola. Rating: 8.3

95. The Island -- Commentary track: Director Michael Bay. Rating: 8.3

96. King Kong -- Commentary track: Director Peter Jackson and producer Philippa Boyens . Rating: 8.3

97. Finding Nemo -- Commentary track: Co-directors Lee Unkrich and Andrew Stanton, and co-writer Bob Petersen. Rating: 8.3

98. Sense and Sensibilty -- Commentary track: Screenwriter/actor Emma Thompson and producer Lindsay Doran. Rating: 8.2

99. Mallrats -- Commentary track: Director Kevin Smith, actors Ben Affleck, Jason Lee, and Jason Mewes, and producers Scott Mosier and Vincent Pereira. Rating: 8.2

100. Dogma -- Commentary track: Director Kevin Smith, producer Scott Mosier, actors Ben Affleck, Jason Lee, and Jason Mewes, and View Askew historian Vincent Pereira. Rating: 8.2