What the corpus says about The Souvenir (2019)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Souvenir (2019) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about The Souvenir (2019) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:32:38 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] The Souvenir ↔ Less Than Zero · craft · The Souvenir is a John Hughes movie sucked of all color, only the pain side of coming of age, like Less Than Zero. · "It's like a John Hughes movie sucked of all the color or something."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:36:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] The Souvenir ⇒ The Eternal Daughter (the host's read) · people · Amanda says the character is named Julian, linking it to Hogg's Souvenir project as a coda. · "this is a part of her souvenir, I guess, trilogy now, or like the project."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:15:15 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] The Farewell ↔ The Souvenir · industry · Griffin flips between The Farewell and The Souvenir for movie of the year. · "I keep flipping between it and the souvenir."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:26:10 · Ben Hosley (0.45)] The Souvenir ↔ The Souvenir · what-if · Ben: remake with puppets, marionettes, commedia dell'arte feel. · "I feel like marionettes rather than..."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:26:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] The Souvenir ↔ Rebecca Mead · lineage · A New Yorker piece by Rebecca Mead explains Swinton Byrne was cast two weeks before filming. · "I couldn't believe that she was cast 2 weeks before they started filming."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:27:12 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Souvenir ↔ Honor Swinton Byrne · people · Her lack of preparation and late casting is part of what makes the performance seem unperformed. · "It is part of what makes the performance amazing is that there, there is no performance"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:28:54 · unknown (0.45)] Tom Burke ↔ The Souvenir · verdict · Burke is a supporting winner; calling him lead would be almost sexist given the film's design as a duet. · "it is almost sexist for me to call him the lead in that movie."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:37:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] The Eternal Daughter ↔ Jack Cardiff · lineage · Sean felt the film downshifted into a Jack Cardiff style 1960s British ghost story he had seen before. · "this just kind of felt like a downshift to like making a, you know, Jack Cardiff, like 1960s British ghost story."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:41:13 · Lulu Wang (0.80)] The Farewell ↔ Hayao Miyazaki · lineage · Like Miyazaki keeping the film identical to his manga, Wang wanted to carry the pure tone of her radio story into the feature without inflating the plot. · "how do I maintain the spirit that's in the manga, the purity of it and transfer it to film, which is something that I thought a lot about with the farewell"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:50:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ The Farewell (the host's read) · lineage · The slow-motion group walk in The Farewell echoes the Reservoir Dogs shot, which remains influential. · "And that shot is still really influential."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:17:05 · Lulu Wang (0.60)] The Farewell ↔ Red Sorghum · theme · Wang and her father sang a song from Red Sorghum a cappella at the real family wedding that inspired The Farewell. · "the song that she's singing as she's walking away and it's like, there's subtitles."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:40:20 · Lulu Wang (0.85)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ The Farewell · theme · Lulu Wang felt the same make-it-now pressure on her second film as Miyazaki did on his second film. · "I felt that way about the farewell, which is my 2nd film as well."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:13:58 · Lulu Wang (0.85)] The Farewell ↔ Harry Nilsson · craft · The film's song 'Without You' was a cover recorded with Wang's friends because the Nilsson foreign-language version could not be cleared. · "I wanted the, an Italian version of uh, without you."
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Ben Hosley · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Producer who occasionally talks; admits no religious background, has a Catholic mother's family, and cannot see the Bible as part of culture. · stances: Left out of Bible culture; Wants a clear demarcation between a bed and a deathbed
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with The Souvenir (2019); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Souvenir (2019) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.