{"id":8307,"date":"2016-06-06T21:20:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T01:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=8307"},"modified":"2016-07-07T17:59:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T21:59:55","slug":"directors-part-8-ones-who-have-retired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/directors-part-8-ones-who-have-retired\/","title":{"rendered":"Directors, part 8: ones who have retired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This list continues from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/directors-worth-keeping-an-eye-on-part-7\/\"> part 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m making an assumption that these directors have retired, since they haven&#8217;t made a movie in years.<\/p>\n<h2>Roberto Benigni<\/h2>\n<p>Benigni wrote and acted in all of these movies. It seems he retired after the public didn&#8217;t care for his last one or two movies.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>Life is Beautiful<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Great movies\n<ul>\n<li>Johnny Stecchino<\/li>\n<li>The Monster<\/li>\n<li>The Tiger and the Snow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Kevin Costner<\/h2>\n<p>Although primarily known as an actor, he did direct one of my favourite movies &#8212; <strong>Dances with Wolves<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>Dances with Wolves<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Not-so-great movie\n<ul>\n<li>The Postman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Frank Darabont<\/h2>\n<p>Darabont created the TV show <strong>The Walking Dead <\/strong>and was a writer on <strong>The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpieces\n<ul>\n<li>The Green Mile<\/li>\n<li>The Shawshank Redemption<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Great movie\n<ul>\n<li>The Majestic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Richard Donner<\/h2>\n<p>Donner was the first director on <strong>Superman II<\/strong> but was replaced &#8212; a version with all of his scenes put back in was made 26 years later.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>Maverick<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Great movies\n<ul>\n<li>16 Blocks<\/li>\n<li>Conspiracy Theory<\/li>\n<li>Ladyhawke<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Good movie\n<ul>\n<li>Scrooged<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Thought it was great as a kid\n<ul>\n<li>The Goonies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Worth watching once\n<ul>\n<li>Superman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Milos Forman<\/h2>\n<p>Forman&#8217;s masterpiece about Mozart might not be a completely true story but it&#8217;s brilliant.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>Amadeus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Great movies\n<ul>\n<li>Man on the Moon<\/li>\n<li>One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Jonathan Frakes<\/h2>\n<p>Frakes played Riker on <strong>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/strong>. His career as a movie director was cut short, but he continues to direct episodes of various TV shows. He should have been given the job of directing <strong>Star Trek: Nemesis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpieces\n<ul>\n<li>Star Trek: First Contact<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek: Insurrection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>George Lucas<\/h2>\n<p>Lucas wrote or co-wrote the scripts for the <strong>Indiana Jones<\/strong> and <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> movies, as well as <strong>Willow<\/strong>. Is the original <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> movie a masterpiece? I&#8217;m sure I thought it was great the first time I saw it, but on rewatch it&#8217;s a bit less interesting. <strong>The Empire Strikes Back<\/strong> is certainly brilliant &#8212; although Lucas didn&#8217;t direct it, he definitely had a large hand in it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Movie I am very fond of\n<ul>\n<li>THX 1138<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Movie that was brilliant the 1st time\n<ul>\n<li>Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Movie for people who grew up in the 1960s\n<ul>\n<li>American Graffiti<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Bad movies\n<ul>\n<li>Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace<\/li>\n<li>Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones<\/li>\n<li>Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>John McTiernan<\/h2>\n<p>McTiernan&#8217;s masterpiece stars Sean Connery as a Russian submarine captain.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>The Hunt for Red October<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Great movie but violent\n<ul>\n<li>Die Hard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Good movie\n<ul>\n<li>Medicine Man<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Not-so-great movie\n<ul>\n<li>The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Hayao Miyazaki<\/h2>\n<p>Miyazaki is generally thought of as the master of Japanese anime. Certainly my favourite anime movie is <strong>Spirited Away<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>Spirited Away<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Great movies\n<ul>\n<li>Nausica\u00e4 of the Valley of the Wind<\/li>\n<li>Porco Rosso<\/li>\n<li>Princess Mononoke<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Good movies\n<ul>\n<li>Howl&#8217;s Moving Castle<\/li>\n<li>Kiki&#8217;s Delivery Service<\/li>\n<li>My Neighbor Totoro<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Frank Oz<\/h2>\n<p>Oz worked as a puppeteer with Jim Henson, and provided the voice for the characters Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal &#8212; and Yoda.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masterpiece\n<ul>\n<li>Bowfinger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Great movies\n<ul>\n<li>Dirty Rotten Scoundrels<\/li>\n<li>In &amp; Out<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Thought it was great as a kid\n<ul>\n<li>The Dark Crystal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This list continues from part 7. I&#8217;m making an assumption that these directors have retired, since they haven&#8217;t made a movie in years. Roberto Benigni Benigni wrote and acted in all of these movies. It seems he retired after the public didn&#8217;t care for his last one or two movies. Masterpiece Life is Beautiful Great [&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-8307","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\/8307","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=8307"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8548,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307\/revisions\/8548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}