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Film I've written at some length before about DVD commentary tracks and how disappointing some can be (Rob Reiner on 'When Harry Met Sally' where he spends much of the time just enjoying the film, talking over the good bits). I've always thought that there isn't an excuse for a film not to have one -- why does the director have to talk about the film -- after all most credit sequences feature over a hundred and fifty people -- surely one of them has something to say. Roger Ebert feels the same way, although he takes the arguement a bit further. His idea is for anyone to do a commentary -- if a you're a fan of 'The Breakfast Club' why not record your own commentary about what the film means to you, MP3 it and put it up on your website for download: "If the approach caught on, treasures might result. I received, for example, a letter from Ronan O'Casey, the actor who played the dead body in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup. He reveals that his character originally had a name and dialogue, and was part of a plot that led up to and followed from his murder. By eliminating that plot in the editing room, Antonioni turned his film into a brilliant meditation on perception: It seems to a photographer (David Hemmings) that the body was there; it can be seen in his photographs, and then it disappears. The commentary by O'Casey might talk about shreds of action and dialogue that remain in the movie as clues to the missing scenes."