What the corpus says about Her Smell (2018)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Her Smell (2018) 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 Her Smell (2018) 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.

[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:28:51 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Her Smell (the maker said so: Alex Ross Perry, the writer of Her Smell, speaking on this episode) · lineage · The speaker says the film's five-act structure was a huge inspiration while writing Her Smell. · "This movie, I think, and this was a huge inspiration in when I was writing her smell."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:00:36 · Joe Reid (0.50)] Elisabeth Moss ↔ Her Smell · verdict · Joe's winner: a high-wire act that dares you to look away and delivers. · "I'm going to dare you to look away."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:43:02 · unknown (0.35)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Fight Club · programming · Fight Club is called the Clockwork Orange of another generation, an Edge Lord pick. · "This is kind of the clockwork Orange for another generation."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:22:08 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · The contrapuntal needle drop descends from Singin' in the Rain in Clockwork Orange and Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs. · "all the way back to singing in the rain in Clockwork Orange or stuck in the middle with you in, in, in, in Reservoir dogs."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:20:24 · unknown (0.30)] Anthony Burgess ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Burgess's novel, and Kubrick found he had to change very little. · "Kubrick reads the book and is like, I didn't have to do much."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:22:36 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Vinyl ↔ A Clockwork Orange · lineage · The speakers note there is an unwatchable Warhol version of this same book. · "Well, of course, you know, you mentioned Warhol, but of course there's the unwatchable Warhol version of this book."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:33:34 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · Kael's charge that Clockwork Orange was prurient and pitied only Alex is applied to Star 80 and Snyder. · "I think the only sympathy that you see from the filmmaker is with Paul Snyder."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:47:02 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · Strangelove, 2001, and this film are the clearest examples of his theme of technology that hastens man's downfall. · "Dr. Strangelove in 2001. And this movie are very literal examples of that, of that theme for sure."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:48:11 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · The Ludovico technique takes the technology theme and makes it the main course. · "And the Ludovico technique in this movie is just that writ large, which is why I love this movie so much"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:50:39 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · HAL's human error is read alongside the Ludovico technique as the flaw that is always there. · "What's the human error in the Ludovico technique."
[speaker] Alex Ross Perry · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · Loves Fight Club as a formative film he saw at the AMC Marple on opening night and again on Saturday, and says it still ranks among his heart picks despite finding it juvenile now. Respects a movie that looks good. Cannot stand the Fincher perfectionist myth, and thinks his push for digital had a bad influence. A sucker for Zodiac, which he ranks first. · stances: Fight Club is a time capsule: deeply embarrassing to admire but loved spiritually; Fincher's perfectionist myth and digital proselytizing are overrated; The second half and Project Mayhem say nothing new; Zodiac is the best Fincher
[speaker] Joe Reid · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · Loves performance-driven work (Elisabeth Moss in Her Smell, Paul Walter Hauser in Richard Jewell) and likes Toy Story 4 less than Frozen 2. Defends Frozen 2's queer subtext and Wild Rose. · stances: Frozen 2 deserved nominations for its Elsa storytelling; Hauser's lack of judgment as the best acting; Gendered acting categories exist because winners matter
[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)

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 Her Smell (2018); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Her Smell (2018) 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.