Title:Ikiru
Film Director:Akira Kurosawa
Year:1952
This Release:2008
Format:AC3
Size:194MB

Commentary: Stephen Prince Author of The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa as well as teacher at Virginia Tech University



http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UKH9GCZG

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why?

why not?

why not?

yeah, sure, it's a nice essay about the movie - lot's of interesting facts and thoughts. criterion is always very good about that. makes for a good audio book in a way. but still ...

yeah, sure, it's a nice essay about the movie - lot's of interesting facts and thoughts. criterion is always very good about that. makes for a good audio book in a way. but still ...

The thread title states the obvious so in the future just avoid these "dreadful" audio commentaries as you travel around this forum.

There a few more out there scattered like a minefield so be careful.

oh sarcasm, great. watch out, there's a minefield of dreadful audio commentaries...
now you're putting more into my comment than what I have intended. I didn't say it was dreadful in any way. I even gave it a listen - I have a couple of Akira Kurosawas movies from the Criterion collection. I admire your intention, but without the visuals it's hard to really relate what he means.

There was no disrespect or anything intended. but hey, thanks for thinking I'm an idiot, thinking you were gonna post the soundtrack when it said audio commentary.

oh sarcasm, great. watch out, there's a minefield of dreadful audio commentaries...
now you're putting more into my comment than what I have intended. I didn't say it was dreadful in any way. I even gave it a listen - I have a couple of Akira Kurosawas movies from the Criterion collection. I admire your intention, but without the visuals it's hard to really relate what he means.

There was no disrespect or anything intended. but hey, thanks for thinking I'm an idiot, thinking you were gonna post the soundtrack when it said audio commentary.

No worries, you left yourself wide open with your "why?" comment.

Many people enjoy these commentaries and just because you don't doesn't necessarily make you a terrible person.

I realized I should have been more specific yes and not leave my comment ending on such an open note. It's not that I don't like them, they are just too specifically connected to scene composition and such to easily enjoy them on their own, without the picture. Which is great when you watch the dvd, because all the information the guy puts in there is tremendous and very interesting.

You make a valid point there are many audio commentaries, The Bond films I have posted, much of it is very scene specific and to someone who has not seen the films multiple times the commentary would not be of much interest.

The Criterion Collection release of Black Narcissus has an outstanding commentary track which includes Ian Christie film historian and voices of stars Marius Goring and Moira Shearer, cinematographer Jack Cardiff, composer Brian Easdale and Martin Scorsese, and director Michael Powell. This commentary is just a collection of interviews and is not scene specific and is easier to grasp without the visuals.

I usually like these interview type audio commentaries, where they get a bunch of people together to talk about it. Sure it is scene specific, but you also have the interaction between these people, so you don't necessarily need the visuals to go with it. Or with the isolated score & composer commentaries, Don Davis commentary on the Matrix was really nice or Danny Elfmans on Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

I really enjoyed the commentary on Seven Samurai, I forgot who did it tho, but it was so full of insights into the production and all kinds of details about so many things, that it was really amazing to listen to and watch the scenes with it. It was kind of experiencing the movie a second time, but with someone to guid you through it - and in the case of Seven Samurai, there was so much that went into how the scenes were made, that it would have been hard to see all that on my own (maybe if i watched it very often in a row I don't know).
I only wish they would put those kinds of commentaries on the DVD's here, but german companies are pretty cheap about extras. In the case of the Matrix, there wasn't even a third of the bonus material on it and the german dvd cost double of what it cost everywhere else.

In the case of Ikiru I sadly haven't seen the movie yet, I read it is a very sad but also beautiful movie and I usually enjoy Kurosawa's movies. I don't watch them too often, but when I am in the mood for it, I was never dissappointed.

any chance of a re-up?

Megaupload doesn't work anymore huh?

Yeah that's news to me ;)

I downloaded this from tehparadox.com/forum/f56/%5Brs%5D-movie-audio-commentaries-ac3-thread-4386545/ (http://tehparadox.com/forum/f56/%5Brs%5D-movie-audio-commentaries-ac3-thread-4386545/) (Thanks to Remy_Bartol for the share, and thanks Vrexcl for the thread!). Here's a re-up link :'D

https://mega.co.nz/#!44U2mYAb!PvrbyRR2El7lNwAwpe8LaUHLxm1Gbz03sjqwNv8 w-qI

Thanks Herr Salat.

Yes, thanks Herr Salat. And of course thanks WildwoodPark for starting this.

Many thanks to WP for starting this thread and to Mr Salat for the new working link. As a lover of Japanese film, Ikiru is one of my favourites and this exhaustive commentary is fascinating.

Thank you!!