{"id":6753,"date":"2015-08-01T13:37:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T17:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=6753"},"modified":"2024-02-16T21:30:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T02:30:19","slug":"directors-worth-keeping-an-eye-on-part-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/directors-worth-keeping-an-eye-on-part-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Directors worth keeping an eye on, part 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This continues from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/directors-worth-keeping-an-eye-on-part-5\/\">part 5<\/a>. The list contains 60 directors (or directing teams), and I think I&#8217;m going to call it done for now.<\/p>\n<h2>Graham Annable &amp; Anthony Stacchi<\/h2>\n<p>Annable previously worked on video games while Stacchi worked on movies &#8212; coming together they produced a masterpiece.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>The Boxtrolls<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Susanne Bier<\/h2>\n<p>Bier is a Danish director, who has directed Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan in terrific movies.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>Things We Lost in the Fire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Great movie\n<ul>\n<li>Love is All You Need<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Kenneth Branaugh<\/h2>\n<p>Branaugh may be more famous as an actor but he&#8217;s directed some brilliant movies, and done a lot to bring Shakespeare to modern audiences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>Dead Again<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Great movies\n<ul>\n<li>Henry V (1989)<\/li>\n<li>Much Ado About Nothing (1993)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Good movies\n<ul>\n<li>Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit<\/li>\n<li>Mary Shelley&#8217;s Frankenstein<\/li>\n<li>Thor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Jonathan Dayton &amp; Valerie Faris<\/h2>\n<p>This directing team has also directed music videos, commercials, and TV shows.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>Little Miss Sunshine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Great movie\n<ul>\n<li>Ruby Sparks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Phil Lord &amp; Christopher Miller<\/h2>\n<p>This directing team has produced two animated masterpieces.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpieces\n<ul>\n<li>Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs<\/li>\n<li>The Lego Movie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Bad movie\n<ul>\n<li>22 Jump Street<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>George Nolfi<\/h2>\n<p>Nolfi has only directed one movie so far, but he&#8217;s also written screenplays for <strong>The Bourne Ultimatum<\/strong> and <strong>Ocean&#8217;s Twelve<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>The Adjustment Bureau<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Nick Park<\/h2>\n<p>Park is the primary force behind the hilarious <strong>Wallace &amp; Gromit<\/strong> shorts. <strong>Wallace &amp; Gromit<\/strong> made a brilliant transition to movie length with <strong>The Curse of the Were-Rabbit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>Chicken Run<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Great movie\n<ul>\n<li>The Curse of the Were-Rabbit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Bryan Singer<\/h2>\n<p>The 3 movies in the <strong>X-Men<\/strong> series that Singer has directed are all worth watching.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpieces\n<ul>\n<li>The Usual Suspects<\/li>\n<li>X-Men: Days of Future Past<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Great movie\n<ul>\n<li>X-Men 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Good movies\n<ul>\n<li>Superman Returns<\/li>\n<li>X-Men<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Spierig Brothers<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only seen one movie directed by Michael and Peter Spierig, but it was an astonishing one.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>Predestination<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Wachowskis<\/h2>\n<p>Lana and Lilly Wachowski&#8217;s masterpiece<strong> The Matrix<\/strong> was way back in 1999, but their great movie <strong>Cloud Atlas<\/strong> was in 2012 &#8212; recent enough to hope that they may be back with a great movie despite their recent disaster <strong>Jupiter Ascending<\/strong>. They&#8217;ve also branched out into TV with <strong>Sense8<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>The Matrix<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Great movies\n<ul>\n<li>Bound<\/li>\n<li>Cloud Atlas (with Tom Tykwer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Mediocre movie\n<ul>\n<li>The Matrix Reloaded<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Bad movies\n<ul>\n<li>Jupiter Ascending<\/li>\n<li>The Matrix Revolutions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This continues from part 5. The list contains 60 directors (or directing teams), and I think I&#8217;m going to call it done for now. Graham Annable &amp; Anthony Stacchi Annable previously worked on video games while Stacchi worked on movies &#8212; coming together they produced a masterpiece. Masterpiece The Boxtrolls Susanne Bier Bier is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[86,42,6],"class_list":["post-6753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-directors","tag-lists","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6753"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22918,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions\/22918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}