They made the most moving, provocative films of the year. In our annual roundtable, five directors (one of whom sidelines as an actor) talk about passion, fear, politics, Oscar ads and crying at the movies. We were a little worried at first that Bennett Miller might not recover. As directors Steven Spielberg, George Clooney, Ang Lee and Paul Haggis stood in the hallway outside a photo studio in Los Angeles, it wasn't Spielberg's political lightning rod, "Munich," or Haggis's incendiary racism drama, "Crash," that got them all talking. Nor was it Clooney and his stylish paean to Edward R. Murrow, "Good Night, and Good Luck," or Lee and his mournful love story, "Brokeback Mountain," that generated the most praise.
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