Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
“You can learn more from John Sturges’s audio track on the ‘Bad Day at Black Rock’ laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school” - Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997.
An excerpt from the legendary director’s commentary featured on Criterion's laserdisc release of John Sturges’s 1955 western-thriller BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK, starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, and Lee Marvin.
Discover why Brian Cox considers Tracy “the greatest screen actor ever” as he break downs a scene from BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK: youtube.com/shorts/4dRU6A11Yfg?feature=share
From Christopher Nolan on FOLLOWING to David Bowie on THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, unlock the behind-the-scenes secrets of your favorite movies with more commentaries on the Criterion Channel: criterionchannel.com/commentaries
Enjoy the best moments from the over forty years of the Criterion commentary in this playlist, with new videos arriving weekly: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd0WKGexn9FAdCRP0pWcgC2BrYhwlYhZu
“You can learn more from John Sturges’s audio track on the ‘Bad Day at Black Rock’ laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school” - Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997.
An excerpt from the legendary director’s commentary featured on Criterion's laserdisc release of John Sturges’s 1955 western-thriller BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK, starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, and Lee Marvin.
Discover why Brian Cox considers Tracy “the greatest screen actor ever” as he break downs a scene from BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK: youtube.com/shorts/4dRU6A11Yfg?feature=share
From Christopher Nolan on FOLLOWING to David Bowie on THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, unlock the behind-the-scenes secrets of your favorite movies with more commentaries on the Criterion Channel: criterionchannel.com/commentaries
Enjoy the best moments from the over forty years of the Criterion commentary in this playlist, with new videos arriving weekly: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd0WKGexn9FAdCRP0pWcgC2BrYhwlYhZu
