It is often said that film directors are siloed off from one another, that they don’t get to watch how others work. So when you put a group of them together, as with the six participants in our directors roundtable, they are quick to share all sorts of ideas. Like where they prefer to sit in a movie theater — centered in a row or on an aisle? How far back is the best for sound, or so the screen runs up to the edges of your peripheral vision? Should you even take the worst seats in the house, since somebody will eventually be asked to pay money to sit there? Guillermo del Toro, there with his adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel #Frankenstein, likes the top of the first quarter of the theater. Rian Johnson, who finds new twists for Benoit Blanc in his third #KnivesOut detective story, #WakeUpDeadMan, says, “I look for wherever Guillermo’s sitting.” Nia DaCosta, who made the bold, adventurous Ibsen adaptation #Hedda, likes the top of the first third. Mona Fastvold, who explores th...