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   FromChelseaManhattan says:
   Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 5:09pm

   Kathryn Bigelow looks like a movie star…She is hot!
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   Sasha Stone says:
   Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 5:12pm

   Yes, Bigelow aged incredibly well.
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   Sasha Stone says:
   Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 5:18pm

   But god, poor Peter Jackson looks like a hobbit at a table with the Na’vi.
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   Antoinette says:
   Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 5:21pm

   I just started watching it but had to pause to ask, How much does PJ look like a hobbit next to QT? XD
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   qwiggles says:
   Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 5:21pm

   Weird group, when put together like that. Bigelow and Daniels seemed to be the only ones not interrupting others!
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   Kevin Klawitter says:
   Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 5:22pm

   Watching this shows once again how cool it would be to just be able to talk to or have lunch with these guys. Reitman and Tarantino in particular.

   However, Reitman’s responses are pretty much identical to what he said in some earlier interviews, including a /film podcast. Kind of odd, considering how offbeat and indie he is. Maybe keeping track of that pie chart got to him.
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   Antoinette says:
   Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 5:22pm

   haha, didn’t see you post that Sasha. tee hee
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   John O'Neil says:
   Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 5:30pm

   Has there ever been a greater collection of directorial talent in one room? I wonder.
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   Antoinette says:
   Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 5:32pm

   How is PJ supposed to grow if QT steals his water? lol (I can’t help myself. sorry.)
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    Danny says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 5:38pm

    It looked like there were some pretty awkward moments. I loved hearing Kathryn speak, she is very eloquent. James Cameron seemed kind of cocky, but he may have every reason to be. Can’t wait til Friday to see Avatar.
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    mikey67 says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 5:39pm

    I’m sorry, in a year when female directors have contributed amazing work, they only get ONE woman for this? Sorry. Too much smoke being blown up the asses of these four straight white males. I’ll take lunch with Bigelow and Daniels without the rest, thank you.
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    Lucas says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 5:43pm

    Look at that hobbit!
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    babalabalu says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 5:43pm

    lolwut @ Tarantino stealing Jackson’s water. Peter was like ”wtf?”.
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    FromChelseaManhattan says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 5:43pm

    Among those six, I believe (my personal opinion) Daniels is the least deserving one this year, and Peter Jackson would be number 5 for me.

    I think out of 6, Bigelow, Cameron and Reitman are all lock. I am almost sure Clint Eastwood will get nominated. I wonder whose place he will take? And what about Rob Marshall?? So far, he doesnt seem to be very promising!

    Blomkamp or Tom Ford out of nowhere would be a nice surprise!
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    dela says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 5:56pm

    Only one female director. Inclusion of Lone Scherfig and Jane Campion would have highlighted the diversity in the works of female directors.
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    Yvette says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 6:01pm

    Kathryn Bigelow was James Cameron’s 3rd wife. He is currently with wife #5…Oy vey.
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    Free says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 6:16pm

    @ 14: Yeah, totally disagree. Some of the best moments in PRECIOUS, I thought, were the directorial ones (i.e. whenever we get into her psyche).

    I like Clint when he’s on his game, but just like Depp, I’m not down with nominating him just out of habit. I’m actually kind of tired of seeing him showing up at these things like clockwork.

    I would hope Daniels gets in, along with Bigelow, (probably) Cameron and Reitman. I liked INGLORIOUS a lot, so I’m fine with Quentin finishing the set, but I wouldn’t mind a lone director spot for a film, like THE WHITE RIBBON.
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    Haha says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 6:17pm

    LMAO When Quentin steals Peter’s drink.
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    Jeremie says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 6:18pm

    #8 Errr…every year during press conferences, cinema lessons or anything else at Cannes ?
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    Joolz says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 6:41pm

    Great stuff, but a little short, I could easily watch them shooting the breeze for half an hour.
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    dlen says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 6:42pm

    I wouldn’t be surprised that even if The White Ribbon doesn’t make the final 10, Michael Haneke still gets a Best Director nomination.

    Still it is harder to justify such a result when there are 10 films instead of 5; 5 BP with one director missing out for another is understandable but hard to explain if you are a BD nominee but your film doesn’t even make the 10.
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    yer says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 6:44pm

    lol Haneke is not getting a nom you delusional artfag
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    rodrigo jp says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 6:48pm

    I think the Oscars will pick

    -Jason Reitman
    -James Cameron
    -Kathryn Bigelow
    -Michael Haneke
    -Quentin Tarantino
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    Noah says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 7:01pm

    I second #23′s predictions.

    Kathryn BIgelow is ridiculously attractive. Throwing that out there on a purely superficial note.

    Lee Daniels’ direction was the worst thing about Precious. I honestly found it distracting from a lot of powerful moments in the script and performances.
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    Zach says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 7:31pm

    Reitman is really appealing to listen to. If the currently up-in-the-air Best Director category (pun intended) comes down to politics, I’m not sure whether Bigelow or Reitman or even Tarantino has the edge.

    It seems too soon to predict the success of Avatar.
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    film_snob007 says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 7:32pm

    Anybody know were I can find a big picture of all of them together?

    Cause I want to use it as a wallpaper.

    thanks
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    Andrew says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 7:36pm

    Wow – James Cameron is a dick. Did anyone else hear him diss Ghostbusters to Jason Reitman’s face?
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    lovespike says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 7:44pm

    Lee Daniels deserves to be there, to say he doesn’t is stupid. Do you direct movies? How would you have directed Precious? Bottom line is these directors made some of the most audacious and talked about movies of the year, I respect all of them no matter how I personally feel about their films, they all deserve to be there
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    Jason says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 8:31pm

    yer, you really lost all credibility using “artfag”. not cool AT ALL.

    that being said, i really hope clint doesn’t get nominated. invictus definitely does not deserve to be remembered. technically it was a fine movie. but it wasn’t original and felt forced.
    i’d love to see tom ford, spike jonze or lone sherfig in the mix.
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    John says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 8:42pm

    I don’t think Peter Jackson is that small, he’s just slouching. He looks like he doesn’t give a fuck.

    Also, I’d kind of like to be Jason Reitman’s best friend.

    Lee Daniels is acting awfully pretentious. This is why people don’t think he can get a nom.
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    Nick K. (and a talking fox) says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 8:43pm

    As entertaining as this is, I would love it if Spike Jonze was here as well. It’d be even more entertaining.
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    Carlos says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 8:54pm

    Points to Quentin for promising to hold out so stubbornly on digital haha. Cool sit-down. I really liked all their input.

    Pretty sure Cameron was dissing Kevin Smith.

    Where’s the love for the Coens this year? They were so subdued with A Serious Man.
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    allen says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 8:58pm

    darn only 15 minutes, i always wish these things were longer like 1 hour

    tarantino is so awkward, everyone else is so casual and he is still in his over-the-top hands flailing bug eyed mode, I wonder if he’s like that at home or when he talks to the mail man lol
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    Mark says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 9:05pm

    Looking at Ms. Bigelow here, I am suddenly reminded of Blue Steel. I think she directed that. I thought that was such a taut thriller.
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    Chris138 says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 9:09pm

    Damn, Kathryn Bigelow looks pretty hot here.
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    Dan McGrath says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 10:26pm

    Everybody is talking about Bigelow’s eye for action on The Hurt Locker but remember, she directed two of my all time greatest guilty pleasures in Near Dark and Point Break. She’s ALWAYS been good and K9: Widowmaker wasn’t a bad flick either.
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    Dan says:
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 11:34pm

    No doubt the format is partially to blame, but this was a very disatisfying thing to watch. It’s a good thing arrogant Cameron makes pop films, because he really wouldn’t have anything to say at a film festival, would he? I wanted to shove a Kristeva book, or hell, a Robert Jay Lifton book into his hands and tell him, “read it!” While Tarantino’s films are becoming so self-consciously stylized they are starting to disappear, he’s become a Diane Arbus subject surrounded by his “stuff.” (In a word – kitsch.) I wanted to ask Bigelow how expensive monstosities like Transformers II fit into her “merit based system.” Reitman seems to be riding his humour as if it were a golf cart – ultimately rather boring to watch. Daniels talked like his movie does – exposition surrounded by the latest pedagogical model in the service of, well, nothing at all. Seriously, it would have been better if he had talked in ebonics. And finally Jackson, looking grumpy and ill, as if his latest film was not getting the best reviews because we just don’t get it, or him.

    Hell, shove a Kristeva book into all their hands.
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    John O. says:
    Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 2:54am

    This being your latest forum, I must come out for Staney Tucci-being the consummate actor that he always been, he came out with two diverse performances-the meek and gentle husband in Julie/JuliA and the siniter molester in The Lovely Bones.
    Christof Walzt is great, but Stanley reaches under the surface.
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    Glenn says:
    Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 3:04am

    Why is Peter Jackson even there? I definitely think Lone Scherfig would’ve been a better inclusion.
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    Aleksis says:
    Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 3:43am

    Lee Daniels is HOT! Why the hell did he keep that raggedy tramp look up for so long?
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    Sally in Chicago says:
    Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 3:46am

    Lee Daniels kept his arms folded in 1 — was that Freudian.
    Will they re-release Hurt Locker?
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    Dominik says:
    Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 5:10am

    Jason Reitman resembles Steve Buscemi a lot, I think. They way he looks, the way he talks. And Kathryn Bigelow reminds me on Kim Gordon from “Sonic Youth”. Strange, but true.
    That said, I´m always happy to see someone as enthusiastic about art and movies like Quentin Tarantino. Many people don´t seem to like him that much, but I think he is an awesome dialog partner (maybe not for breakfast, but definately dinner)!
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    bambi says:
    Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 5:49am

    #39

    Totally agree. Why is Jackson in the group with directors who are either locks for nomination or have a good chance to get in? His movie is rotten and his direction is panned for overuse of SFX at the expense of the narrative and characters. So why is he here? Shame on AMPAS and guilds if they nominate him at the expense of more deserving directors. JJ Abrams and Neil Blokamp did better job this year than he did, for example.
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    Dominik says:
    Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 5:54am

    But Bambi, have you even seen “Lovely Bones”?
    I´m just curious, cause no matter what the critics say, I will spare any comment about it unless I actually have seen it!
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    Amis says:
    Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 5:59am

    “I’m sorry, in a year when female directors have contributed amazing work, they only get ONE woman for this? Sorry. Too much smoke being blown up the asses of these four straight white males. I’ll take lunch with Bigelow and Daniels without the rest, thank you.”

    Sexist AND racist! Good deal.
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    Sasha Stone says:
    Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 6:12am

    I agree that Lee Daniels is hot. He is my favorite of the participants, though I love a cocky Jim Cameron (he cracks me up, king of the world!) and beautiful, intelligent, graceful Kathryn. The other dudes are great too. I hope they do another with Clint Eastwood, Rob Marshall, Peter Docter, etc.

    AND yes, someone should do an Oscar women’s director roundtable! Bigelow, Scherfig, Campion, Ephron, Myers…that would be cool.
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    bambi says:
    Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 7:01am

    #44

    What I think is irrelevant. I read reviews and they are not impressed with Jackson`s obsession with CGI at the expense of everything else. heck, some of his cast memembers were pissed that their roles got shafted at the expense of heaven montage. So whether I like it or not makes no difference because guys who make a difference were very disappointed. Therefore, Jackson has no business among directors who have actual shot at not just nomination but win. K-Big and Reitman are locked and loaded, Tarantino is almost a lock, Daniels got shakey because of GG snub (but his movie is locked) and Cameron`s on the rise. Jackson, however, is dead. Precursors ignored him and his movie and reviews are rotten. Again, who cares if I saw the movie? And, yes, I`ll see it when I don`t have to pay for it.

    BTW, he doesn`t just look like a Hobbit but like a very ill Hobbit. Losing weight should`ve made him look healthier than when he was obese but he looks like he`s dying or something.
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    Dominik says:
    Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 7:49am

    Bambi, I just wondered because you called the movie “rotten”, but actually you haven´t seen it.
    In terms of predicting Jacksons Oscar chances it´s truly not important what you or Sasha Stone or me is thinking about the movie, but in terms of forming an opinion about the quality of “Lovely Bones”, you should trust your own mind, not the critics ones or anybody else.
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    aspect ratio says:
    Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 8:47am

    I’m glad I’m not the only one reacting to the Peter Jackson thing. How could whoever was filming this not take notice that Jackson looks like he’s been digitally shrunk?! You see Tarantino next to him looking down on him as if he’s a child! Tarantino’s head looks like it’s twice as big as Jackson’s! Had they had any sense they would’ve sat Jackson in another seat, this looks completely ridiculous, slouching or not.

    Lee Daniels sort of rubbed me the wrong way.. Can’t quite put my finger on it, I wouldn’t say it’s being pretentious, but he almost sounded like he’s a victim on the insider/outsider question, very strange tone, like he seemed very uncomfortable.
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    lovespike says:
    Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 9:16am

    Did anybody expect Daniels to act a certain way? What did you want him to do? He is himself. Just the same as Cameron is cocky and QT can’t shut up all of them have personality quirks