Directors who stopped participating in Special Features

[chris_sc77]

Over the past few years it has become increasingly apparent that many of todays Best Filmmakers have stopped recording Audio Commentaries and participating in other extras Features.


Some filmmakers are still making sure the audience gets an extensive all access look at the making of a film (Peter Jackson, Ridley Scott, Kevin SMith, Judd Apatow) but an increasing number of High Quality filmmakers just dont seem to participate like they used to .

Hopefully this doesnt became another debate of "I never waste my time with the extras" or "They called called special features so they should just be icing on the cake. It's the movie thats Important"
Blah-blah-blah. We Know that.

I like to learn new things about some of my favorite films and find much of this knowledge and insight fascinating and often entertaining.

With that said here is a list of some of the major losses of Directors who have stopped participating in Behind the scenes commentaries and insights:


Martin Scorsese (Thankfully he recorded excellent commentaries for most of his films in the early to mid 00's because now he doesnt do them anymore starting with the Departed. Would have loved his Commentaries on Departed, hugo, Shutter Island, and especially Wolf of Wall Street)

P.T. Anderson (this was a big loss. 2 commentaries a piece on his first two films and then nothing starting with my favorite film ever Magnolia. Extras get increasingly sparse with every new film )

David O Russell (dont know what happened here either. He used to do a commentary or two on everything and then stopped after the Fighter)

Steven Soderbergh (Used to do commentary on everything and stopped as well a few years ago)

Robert Rodriguez (Never thought he would be one to shy away from this. Would have loved commentaries on the Machete films)

Tim Burton

Sam Raimi

So who else do you miss hearing from on your Blu-rays and DVD's ???