Movies - Aronofsky Upset Over "The Fountain" DVD

Director Darren Aronofsky updated his blog, with a few comments about the stripped-down "The Fountain" DVD, which didn't even contain a commentary track. Here is what he had to say.

"As many of you can tell, it is light on extras as compared to my previous DVD releases. Everything at the studio was a struggle," explains Aronofsky. "For instance, they didn't want to do a commentary track cause they felt it wouldn't help sales. I didn't have it in me to fight anymore. Whatever."

But he's not giving up. "Niko, my friend who did the doc on the DVD came up with a novel idea. We recorded a commentary track ourselves. We're gonna post it on a site soon, http coming soon. You can play it and watch the flick and hopefully you'll enjoy it."

Feeling that the DVD wasn't everything that it could have been, he added: "I do hope to do a big special edition at some point, but for that to happen the DVD is gonna have to sell."

Aronofsky also added on his blog: "I got a lot of extras in my bag so who know maybe if you all write to criterion they’ll get interested (suggest the fountain as a title: mulvaney@criterion.com). They’ve been into pi and requiem but because the first run of dvd’s had so many extras they didn’t know what else they could add. but the fountain…"

Aronofsky's previous DVDs for Pi and Requiem for a Dream were extremely heavy on extras, yet The Fountain has very few special features to speak of – not even a director's commentary, which would have been really damn useful for a film so heavily reliant on symbolism and allegory. I think it would be awesome if Criterion decided to add The Fountain to their collection and distribute the DVD that way. It really is a shame the studio is such a bunch of dumb-asses not to add a simple commentary track when the friggin director was pushing for it to be in the release. I absolutely loved the film and I can't wait for the internet commentary track and hopefully a new release of the film on DVD.

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