Past Lives was an emotional experience. So subtle yet had a lot to say about destiny, the roads not taken & empathy towards each other. A quietly powerful film. Celine Song's direction was so self-assured. I'm amazed that this was her first feature film.

I love the energy of Celine in all the roundtable, so bright! 🎉

Good job for inviting Justine Triet 👍🏻👍🏻

Past Lives is probably one of the most beautiful romantic movies in existence. I can’t praise it enough.

Michael Mann - must watch, genius director!

Soooo great seeing Blitz here. Looking at his humble beginnings in Ghana as an artiste and seeing him here doing great things is such an inspiration ❤

Great roundtable, people assume that Greta and Nolan weren't invited, but maybe they couldn't or declined, telling that, these filmmakers deserve respect and congrats for their work. 😊

Great roundtable! Celine Song's answer about the husband in Past Lives was so insightful and clever

Agree with Justine about The Boston Strangler. A very underrated classic, ahead of it's time in terms of style, editing and split screen scenes which has been copied so many times. Tony Curtis should have won an Oscar for his performance.

Justine Triet ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Thank you Celine Song for my favorite film this year Past Lives

Is nobody going to mention how A. Payne is a spitting image of the young man in 'The Holdovers'. He looks and feels like the grown up version of the boy.

Collateral - Heat - Thief - The Insider - Manhunter Michael Mann, what a Director 👏

Unsurprisingly, the two oldest directors, Mann & Payne, seem to be the most laid back & secure. Celine seems to be the most humble. Blitz seems the most happy to be there & soak up knowledge from the other directors. Bradley Cooper seems like he's the most eager to convince people he's a "serious" director.

They should have got Bradley to translate for Justine. The internet would have gone wild 😝

The Holdovers, Anatomy of a Fall were simply SUPERB!!!! MASTERPIECES!!! A big shout out to Past Lives too which was a tad slow but beautiful!!! Kudos to everyone!!!

Missing Greta but happy to see Celine and Justine here.

Justine Triet and Sandra Hüller were incredible.

I'm glad to see Celine Song at this table. It is kinda weird that Greta or Nolan weren't there, because they are obviously the most successful this year, but it's good to highlight other directors as well.

Love this, thank you for bringing all these wonderful directors together

One of the best roundtables I've seen. Celine, Alexander, Triet, Blitz... a wonderful cross-section of diverse cinema.

What a great roundtable!

Thanks for posting this interesting roundtable. I'm fortunate to have seen at least a few of the films discussed. In particular, I really admire the direction of Michael Mann and Alexander Payne.

Michael Mann, the Goat.

congratulations everyone

Great questions

Great directors all throughout. Love it! ❤

I'm so happy for Bradley Cooper, its awesome to see him grow into a director and producer he's the best. He's still my fav and I could be biased but Nightmare Alley is probably my favorite of his. I know he produced it and obviously Rocket Racoon is adorable/hilarious ❤ Maestro was really good

I wish there was a cinematographers roundtable as well

Wow Bradley Cooper... Again; yeah no chairs, yeah six years, yeah cathedral... But finally some Justine Triet... Glorious ❤

why cut these off at 40 min lol, make it an hour at least, for the love of god loll

Excellent audio edit

There should be book called: The Transformation of Bradley Cooper! 💯

For all of you whining that Nolan isn't here. What else is there to say? His work speaks for itself. It's a critical and box office success. Like if he doesn't win, then there is nothing much else to say.

Alexander Payne sounds like a hoot!!!

Guys let's chill with all the hate...All these people are remarkable and talented. Let's focus and even learn and get some rare or valuable insight from this group discussion instead of being angry and hating just bcoz its gives us momentary personal subjective affirmation.

This wasn't enjoyable for me. Next time split it into two. Bradley dominated. Blitz was overlooked. Wanted more Michael Mann. .

1. Celine is a talented newcomer. 2. Blitz is a solid journeyman director. 3. Michael is a freethinking maverick. 4. Alexander is an experienced auteur. 5. Justine is a freaking Palme d’Or winner. 6. Bradley wants an Oscar.

All these movies are good 👏👏

Past Lives was so sweet and full of truth. The end, when they say goodbye, and she goes to her husband and starts crying. I so understood that moment. She lost that little girl, that piece of her past. It's like when you find out, as an adult, that the house you grew up in was torn down or your favorite teacher has passed away. It's sad but there is some closure. She has a chance now to really move forward and form a better, fuller relationship with her husband.

I'm really looking forward to watching what Celine will film after this.

nice line up

Alexander Payne and Michael Mann in a roundtable is late Christmas

Can anyone explain to me why so many media outlets and even some famous directors are trying so hard to get Bradley Cooper an Oscar??

Does anyone have a timestamp for where Cooper talks to Mann about the Public Enemies audition and the letter?

Bravo Justine for the English effort. Excellente réalisatrice mais bon c pas facile pour tout le monde les langues étrangères ! So proud Justine is French like me

What's the music playing at the end?

Outstanding. DIVROL❤❤❤❤

wanted Alexander to talk for 10+ minutes about Dominic Sessa

Alexander Payne (whose films I love) comes off as a jerk on the relatability question. As someone who was thinking about being a journalist, he should understand that some of these obvious questions are for an audience’s benefit, not for his.

Am I the only who thinks Payne was an asshole in his treatment of the moderator?

Bradley Cooper is amazing! They all are wonderful!!

Alexander Payne 💜

Wow Alexander Payne hates this interviewer’s questions!

Greta & Chris did so much press for their respective films , maybe they felt another round table was redundant. The directors in this one each deserve to be heard . I’m also thinking when your films gross billions world wide what’s left to say ??

I feel like this roundtable was just getting started, and then it was over. Far too short!

wait was was the second film Justine mentioned after opening night ?

nice roundtabel , first Visit here - me German Grandfather, - nice Welcome in LA for Justine and the eurpean Film, 👏

Celine Song

27:24 - Say what? "Cars", "Herbie: Fully Loaded", "The Love Bug", every "Fast & Furious movie". "Death Race 2000". All of those made money. Even "Talladega Nights" and Ron Howard's "Rush" were modest successes.

So happy to hear from Justine Triet, Celine Song, & Michael Mann! Martin Scorsese, Sofia Coppola, Christopher Nolan, Todd Haynes, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emerald Fennell, Greta Gerwig, Ira Sachs, or Ridley Scott should have been here instead of Alexander Payne & Bradley Cooper to be honest.

Bradley comes off just way too desperate as a “I’m a director take me seriously!!” type. Like he’s always trying to prove himself.

I feel very spoiled having listened to Bong Joon Ho and his interpreter Sharon Choi for so long that I kind of feel bad for Justine Triet that her interpreter (who im sure is a lovely person) doesn't seem as well practiced or able to articulate to what she said as smoothly. roundtables as a format are largely inaccessible to directors who are non-english speakers and i think there needs to be a better way of figuring that out especially as non-english movies are becoming more popular and accessible with english speaking audiences.

Can we pls have for series as well especially Matt bomer and Jonathan Bailey for fellow travelers

I haven't seen half these films. I love Bradley but I definitely fell asleep halfway through the movie, it was filmed great though I will say. Blitz did a colorful fantastic retelling of missing pieces from the original color purple.

Please spare this incredible talent these branded mugs in so many shots. Glass is so much more classy, have a logo in the back Los Angeles Times

no Barbenheimer 🥺

No Jonathon Grazer? Damn.

4:26 20:14

Really weird Greta and Nolan weren't there

Where is Christopher Nolan?

Where on earth is Nolan??

You have to improve on formulating questions, some are just trite.

Maestro is a masterpiece

Alexander Payne so underrated

Greta is in the THR roundtable coming up. Calm down, people.

Great to see so many amazing directors together, but any Director's roundtable without either Greta Gerwig or Chris Nolan feels incomplete in my opinion. I am most excited to watch Alexander Payne's The Holdovers.

Actors - wow, people who pretend. Let’s treat them like gods 😂😂😂

There is a American murder case that remembers about 10 years or more. The man was convinced of murdering his wife on a camping trip alone after quite a few years marriage. He was convicted of murder after the second time of doing this because his children accused him murder

Ya’ll just ripping off THR now 😂

Lol Bradley Cooper does not like Alexander Payne.

he didn't give Blitz much attention at all

Everyone speaks French there or what? Hahaha

Bradley Cooper tries so hard to make everyone not act, and yet all I see from him is acting

Cut that music down bro wtf

This video is 50% a roundtable and 50% a puff piece for Bradley Cooper. They appealed too much to his ego and his forced awards campaign in this video.

Again with the no chairs on set... Bradley needs to be less cringy and desperate for an Acadamy award.

In 2023, an estimated 6.3 million children under five died, 2.9 million of them in the WHO African Region. This is equivalent to five children under 5 years of age dying every minute. Two thirds of these deaths can be attributed to preventable causes. A third of all these deaths are in the neonatal period. 0:22

Needed Nolan on this panel and not Bradley Cooper who will be harping on how hard he worked for that Cathedral scene. 'Mastero' movie is mid, a clear Oscar bait. Hope Acadamy won't fall for it but I highly doubt it.

Since 2013 I lost interest in Movies Are Hollywood people still making gud movies with fresh themes?

Bradley Cooper is overrated

Celine Song and Blitz Bazawule do not belong with these other talented filmmakers. They have not made great films. Past lives is one of the worst films of the year. Mann, Payne, Cooper and even Triet are welcome. still, I love all these conversations even if they can't have all winners. Overall a great conversation.

Almost every single film that has come out of Hollywood over the past 10+ years has been garbage. I tried finding an English speaking, recently released film to watch this evening, and couldn't find a one. I just shook my head, disgusted, as I scrolled through the listings. Utter garbage. As a HUGE film buff, and having graduated university many years ago where I studied film history, video editing and production, multimedia, graphic design and fine art, I'm just insulted and so very disappointed with today's film making. Everything is stupid and broken anymore. And, it happened so quickly, right before our eyes. So, it's been older films and reruns for me.