Audio Commentary: Roger
Ebert
Director: Orson Welles
Writers: Herman J.
Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
Starring: Orson Welles,
Joseph Cotton, Dorothy Comingore, Ruth Warrick, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Erskine
Sanford, Everett Sloan, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris
This year marks the first for
one of the features being shown at Roger Ebert’s Film Festival in
Champaign-Urbana today. It isn’t unusual for the programmers to show a
cinematic classic like “Citizen Kane”. They even programmed such respected
titles when it was called the Overlooked Film Festival. That’s one of the
reasons they changed the name. But, as far as I know, this is the first time
they’ve screened a movie at this festival with the audio commentary track. This
is a rare opportunity for festival goers to hear Ebert’s words with his own
voice since throat cancer took it from him a few years ago. Luckily, Ebert
recorded the commentary track years ago and it was included on the original DVD
release of the film, so it’s pretty easy to hear what he has to say about the
movie many call the greatest movie of all time in the comfort of your own home.
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