I thought i´d start the new year with an really interesting movie: The Wrestler. Aside from my high expectations i won´t really talk about the movie itself, to be more concrete, i won´t really talk very much at all – others have done it already.

Peter from /Film had several interviewing sessions with Darren Aronofsky where he talks about the creation of The Wrestler, from beginning to end.

It´s not only interesting if you like the movie or wait for it´s cinema release, especially for aspiring directors it´s really nice to hear how Darren pulled of that movie.

But before i´ll post the links to the interviews i think the trailer would be a nice gimmick:

And here are all the five parts of the interview with Darren Aronofsky:
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V

And finally, because i wouldn´t know where to put it else, here are some videos of a round table The Hollywood Reporter held with six of this year’s Best Director hopefuls: Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon), Gus Van Sant (Milk), Ed Zwick (Definace), Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler), Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) and Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino).
Too bad Christopher Nolan is missing, but two of my absolute favourite directors (Eastwood and Aronofsky) took part:
A Discussion with The Best Directors of 2008

Well, that´s it with my “Happy new year” post…