What the corpus says about Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Portrait of a Lady on Fire (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 Portrait of a Lady on Fire (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 · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:10:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Never Rarely Sometimes Always ↔ Portrait of a Lady on Fire · verdict · Never Rarely Sometimes Always is the VOD best-picture pick, set against the hosts' mock 2021 winner Portrait of a Lady on Fire. · "I'm going to go with never really, sometimes always."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:47:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Irishman ↔ Portrait of a Lady on Fire · verdict · Best ending: Irishman's landing justifies everything before it; Portrait's ending moves Amanda; Parasite is also argued; they pick three different endings. · "It not only sticks to the landing, but the landing justifies everything that came before."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:09:50 · David Sims (0.50)] Portrait of a Lady on Fire ↔ Portrait of a Lady on Fire · verdict · David's number one film of 2019, 'the movie for me all year'. · "That has been the movie for me all year."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:30:16 · Bobby Wagner (0.60)] Portrait of a Lady on Fire ↔ Les Misérables · industry · France submitted Les Miserables over Portrait, spawning the new international-feature rule. · "we will call the portrait of a lady on fire rule, which clearly indicated that there was some discontent with Les Miserables taking the space for France in that category"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:04:28 · unknown (0.40)] Portrait of a Lady on Fire ↔ Clemency · industry · Neon punted Portrait to February; Clemency should have been released in October, not January. · "I do think they should have released clemency in like October."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:34:14 · Ben Hosley (0.50)] Portrait of a Lady on Fire ↔ Portrait of a Lady on Fire · what-if · Ben's No Thank You: it needs more fire; just call it Fire. · "Need more fire."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:00:49 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Adele Haenel ↔ Portrait of a Lady on Fire · verdict · Runner-up to Lupita, only edged out by a split vote with costar Merlant. · "Adele Hennel, who is maybe a little bit cut by a split vote within the sections of my brain with a costar."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:06:01 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Celine Sciamma ↔ Portrait of a Lady on Fire · verdict · One host's Best Director winner. · "My winner is Celine."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 1:11:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Portrait of a Lady on Fire ↔ Neon · industry · Neon gave it a tiny LA release in December, so it counted for last year. · "Neon released it in LA and December of last year."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 1:12:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Portrait of a Lady on Fire · fun · The hosts mock-crowned it best picture of 2020 on a prior episode and tell upset listeners 'We make the rules'; many listeners said they loved it because of that episode. · "We make the rules."
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:25:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] The Irishman ↔ A Star Is Born · programming · Producer Bobby suggests The Irishman is this year's A Star Is Born for the hosts' Oscar obsession. · "perhaps the Irishman is this year's a star is born for us."
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:27:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Irishman ↔ Netflix · programming · Sean assumes the Irishman has a contractual theatrical release while the other Netflix films might not. · "I assume the Irishman has something contractually that says they'll do that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:37:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Irishman · theme · De Niro's refusal to intellectualize acting is tied to his Irishman interviews where he just goes in on Trump. · "he'll be like an actor's round table for the Irishman"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:41:43 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker ↔ The Irishman · craft · Rise of Skywalker had to de-age Ian McDiarmid the way The Irishman did. · "For Rise of Skywalker, they had to de-age him Irishman style."
[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] 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] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[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] Bobby Wagner · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · As the producer in the room he saw The Boy and the Heron in a theater, enjoyed it for the grannies, and offers a second-chances reading of Poor Things. · stances: Poor Things reads as optimistic, about second chances
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[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] 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 Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Portrait of a Lady on Fire (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.