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"  Nick Stoller is the man behind Jason Segal. Also and by extension: The Muppets, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and the upcoming Five-Year Engagement, in which Segal is exiled to Ann Arbor, Michigan, with his fianc\u00E9, played by Emily Blunt. Basically, he&amp;#039;s the closest thing we have to a new Judd Apatow. We spoke to the writer-director about his Oscar picks and why driving through L.A. is so damn cool, presented here on actual nomination eve. (Also, if you&amp;#039;re ever in Ann Arbor, he says get the Cuban Conundrum sandwich from Zingerman&amp;#039;s.) \u2014Anna Peele &amp;quot;I would say Drive was my favorite movie. It created a whole world that you had to join. And once you joined, it was just a beautiful, awesome experience. Rather than doing normal scenes to show a couple falling in love, they did an incredible montage of, like, Ryan Gosling driving Carey Mulligan in the canals of Los Angeles. And it totally worked. I don&amp;#039;t know why it worked. They didn&amp;#039;t even talk. It was like, &amp;#039;Oh my God, they&amp;#039;re totally in love.&amp;#039; That was really impressive to me. It was just an incredibly stylish, cool movie. I don&amp;#039;t think I&amp;#039;ve felt that cool seeing a movie since Pulp Fiction. I like to drive around L.A. and play that music. You instantly feel like you&amp;#039;re in that movie. That&amp;#039;s always the sign of a really powerful voice. &amp;quot;Michael Fassbender played an amazing villain. He seemed like a young Ian McKellen in X-Men: First Class. I thought it was fantastic. And I thought the sequence where he kills the bad guy at the end was so creepy. He kills him with a Nazi quarter? I don&amp;#039;t know. Kevin Bacon gives him a coin at the beginning. He wants [Fassbender] to move the coin with his mind, and he can&amp;#039;t do it. And then he kills [Bacon] with the coin at the end. You really felt sympathy for Fassbender&amp;#039;s plight. I thought that movie was awesome. I couldn&amp;#039;t see it in the theater because we were shooting Five-Year Engagement, and I heard it got amazing reviews, so I really wanted to. And then I saw it on the plane, which is not the best way to see it. And I kept laughing too loudly and looking around and thinking, &amp;#039;Does anyone realize how amazing this movie is? This is one of the best movies ever.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; MORE FROM THE ESQUIRE NOMINATING ACADEMY: \u2022 Young Adult&amp;#039;s Diablo Cody on John Hawkes and Martha Marcy May Marlene \u2022 Win Win&amp;#039;s Amy Ryan on Jessica Chastain and Kristen Wiig \u2022 The Descendants&amp;#039;s Judy Greer on Bridesmaids and Rose Byrne \u2022 Martha Marcy&amp;#039;s John Hawkes on Young Adult and Charlize Theron \u2022 Stellan Skarsg\u00E5rd on David Fincher and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo \u2022 ...and More "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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