Post-War Filmmakers, RIP: Herr, Cimino, Kiarostami ...

It seems that the whole generation of 'post-war' filmmakers, directors/writers who began filmmaking in the 1950s or 1960s (or later) are rapidly disappearing, and with it a profound transition in the nature of film and filmmaking itself. Only a handful of such influencial directors remain and, of course, will soon also be gone (eg Godard, Loach, Herzog).

Michael Herr was the scriptwriter for Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" (and before that contributed to Coppola's "Apocalypse Now") and author of a very readable memoir-portrait of Kubrick shortly after the latter's death:
"Herr pioneered reporting that infused Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now. Tim Page, who inspired Dennis Hopper’s character in the latter, pays tribute"
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/05/words-that-will-forever-pursue-us-tim-page-on-michael-herr-the-rock-and-roll-voice-of-the-vietnam-war


Abbas Kiarostami:
"The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, who died yesterday at the age of seventy-six, was simply one of the most original and influential directors in the history of cinema."
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/postscript-abbas-kiarostami-1940-2016


Michael Cimino:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cimino