Dario Argento DVD Commentaries Are Coming

Fangorias own scribe Alan Jones is a Dario Argento genius. So when it came time for Argento to do his commentaries on DVD Alan was asked to help Argento remember some of the little details of shooting and little stories that happen on set.

“On May 6, I recorded audio commentaries for THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE and THE CARD PLAYER, and the week before I did TRAUMA,� he reveals. “They are for the Anchor Bay Entertainment and Blue Underground U.S. releases. The latter was the hardest of all, because [my location visit] was over 10 years ago and I really had to think intensely about anecdotes and on-set stories. My prompter was [fellow British genre journalist] Mark Kermode—who will not be heard on the soundtrack at his request. He felt his knowledge of Dario was limited, so he preferred to jog me along rather than have an informal conversation together. Mark did the same on THE CARD PLAYER, which was much easier to do because it’s all still vividly in my memory."

The Card Player and Trauma are expected to be released by Anchor Bay on August 23. The Bird with the Crystal Plummage will be a special two disc set from Blue Underground sometime at an unspecified date.