Directors Close Up 2 Interviews with Directors Nominated for Best Film by the Directors Guild of America: 2006 - 2012

Since 1992, The Directors Guild of America has hosted annual seminars featuring its nominees for outstanding feature film directing. From the first, film and television director Jeremy Kagan has moderated these sessions in which the finest contemporary directors weigh in on every aspect of the filmmaking process. In the second edition of Directors Close Up, Kagan culled the most insightful and entertaining responses from these acclaimed directors. In this all new sequel, Kagan shines his spotlight on nominees from the 2006 to 2012 seminars, as they discuss their work on some of the most brilliant films of the last several years, including The Artist, Babel, Black Swan, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Crash, The Dark Knight, The Departed, The Descendants, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Dreamgirls, The Fighter, Frost/Nixon, Good Night and Good Luck, Hugo, Inception,The King's Speech, Little Miss Sunshine, Michael Clayton, Milk, Munich, No Country for Old Men, The Queen, Slumdog Millionaire, The Social Network, and There Will Be Blood. From script development through pre-production to production and post-production, the directors-Paul Thomas Anderson, Darren Aronofsky, Danny Boyle, George Clooney, Ethan and Joel Coen, Bill Condon, Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, David Fincher, Stephen Frears, Tony Gilroy, Paul Haggis, Michel Hazanavicius, Tom Hooper, Ron Howard, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Ang Lee, Bennett Miller, Christopher Nolan, Alexander Payne, David O. Russell, Julian Schnabel, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Gus Van Sant-offer personal insights into every step of the creative process. They also reveal their candid takes on the best and worst aspects of their profession. Featuring materials from many of the productions-including storyboards, script notes, sketches, and on-set photos-Directors Close Up will be of interest to both professional and aspiring directors, as well as to film fans who will enjoy this inside look into making movies.