Generally speaking, I can listen to the following directors over and over: Guillermo del Toro, Ridley Scott, John Carpenter (particularly when he is with Kurt Russell) and Francis Ford Coppola.
I'm not particularly keen on cast commentaries, particularly if they are quite young (as in Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist) or comedians who just want to joke about for the whole running time and not provide you with any information at all.
I also really like the 'experts' who talk about old films with occasional archive interviews with members of the cast and crew or ones that are delivered like an audio essay such as the David Kalat commentary on the Dr Mabuse collection and Bey Logan is always a mine of information.
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