dvd out with michael cimino commentary!!

definately.
i just got the dvd today and since i've seen the film a few times before so i immediantly put it on with the commentary and watched it from beginning to end. he talks more during the first half. and it is great stuff. like the previous poster mentioned. lots of good stories. i totally loved the part about him giving some nonactor a haircut and it made him that character. it sounds shallow to people who don't get it but a haircut can make such a difference.
a few times he sounds like a bitter old man "on thunderbolt they called me gay, on deer hunter: a rightwing facist, heaven's gate: a leftist marxist, and this film a racist. i can't be all these things!" but overall he's a very interesting guy. he' was VERY topical during the recording, talking about current events regarding his friends, oliver stone and clint eastwood. that's gonna make the commentary track kinda dated down the line. i would have liked him to talk about heaven's gate a little more. he didn't talk about it much, probably a touchy subject. anyway, definatley worth getting for fans of cimino. he's a real filmmaker.

Hey guys, is the commentary on the region 1 disc? Cos I rented a region 2 (I live in the UK) and there is no director's commentary.

Loved the movie, also a big fan of Rourke.

I had another listen to the first hour or so of his commentary. You missed parts of his commentary where he discusses John Lone, Ariane, Mickey Rourke, creating the Mott Street set, Stanley Kubrick's reaction when he discovered it was a set, working with the film crew in Thailand, and the casting of Steven Chen, who played Tony. There is also a nice story where one of the Asian actors revealed to the crew that the photo they had placed on the film set is actually his father. The crew, including Cimino, signed the photo, and gave it to him as a gift. He discussed this all within the first hour of the film. There is more to his commentary than just Asian gangs and Oliver Stone.

2 years later, but better late than never....i just bought the dvd...because i found out today it was available on dvd....i've been waiting forever for it, and had to conform for a vhs rip of it onto dvd for the past couple of years....but oh well will be looking forward to first seeing the movie again but with the commentary on....