What the corpus says about The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

What was said about it (26)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:45:35 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Vanilla Sky · programming · Tenenbaums opened the same week as Vanilla Sky in 5 theaters and averaged $55,000. · "Tenenbaums comes out that very week on 5 theaters and it grosses $276,000"
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:07:20 · Andy Greenwald (0.60)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Pulp Fiction · lineage · Both are 'emptying the cupboard' of their makers' influences and obsessions, introducing a whole cinematic world through soundtrack, look and talk. · "it's like pulp fiction or Grand Royal magazine, where it's just like the emptying of the cupboard of influences and obsessions."
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:31:25 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Franny and Zooey · lineage · The movie is a Salinger pastiche; Anderson would need a Salinger adaptation as IP cover today. · "he would have to make Franny and Zooey. Like he would have to make an adaptation of a Salinger novel"
4. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 1:16:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Magnificent Ambersons ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read) · lineage · Named as a huge influence; rewatching Ambersons shows how much of it is in Tenenbaums. · "it's wild how much, uh, ten bombs or how much Amberson's is in ten bombs."
5. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:05:35 · unknown (0.40)] The Catcher in the Rye / Franny and Zooey ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read) · lineage · Salinger's Glass-family stories are the key literary influence. · "Zoe is like the key influence on this film"
6. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:05:56 · unknown (0.40)] From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read) · lineage · The vibe of that kid-runaway book imbues the first 40 minutes, including the narration and child-genius portraiture. · "the whole vibe of that book is imbued in the 1st 40 minutes of this movie, most of the narration, most of the young Tenenbaum's portraiture of these 3 child geniuses."
7. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:06:33 · unknown (0.40)] French New Wave ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read) · lineage · Combines the emotionality and cutting style of French new wave with the rawness of 70s American cinema. · "You've got 70s American cinema and you've also got 60s French new wave."
8. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:09:20 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Hal Ashby films · lineage · Offered as obvious comparison points, though Anderson's sensibility feels new. · "you can say, oh, this is kind of like Hal Ashby movies or this is kind of like true foam movies, but his sensibility."
9. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:21:45 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ The Squid and the Whale · lineage · Named as a companion film for blending comedy with sadness. · "I did write down the squid and the whale as kind of like a companion film to this film."
10. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:37:15 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Hannah and Her Sisters · lineage · Recommended for its rare combination of sadness and comedy. · "I wrote down Hannah and her sisters, which is a rare combination of that sadness in that comedy."
11. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:37:23 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Terms of Endearment · lineage · Recommended as a James L. Brooks sad-comedy relative. · "terms of endearment."
12. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:37:40 · unknown (0.40)] Harold and Maud ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read) · lineage · Off-kilter characterization, 70s feel, overcoats, and suicide attempts; in the bloodstream of Tenenbaums and Squid and the Whale. · "Harold and Maud is very much in the bloodstream of, of, the Royal Ten of bombs and Squid and the whale."
13. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:37:53 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Arrested Development · lineage · Recommended for those who liked the sitcom about a crazy, wealthy family. · "If you liked that sitcom about a crazy, wealthy family, then there's definitely a lot to match this up with."
14. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:07:35 · Andy Greenwald (0.60)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Mad Men · theme · Both romanticize an era their audience didn't live through, with tactile detail. · "something like Mad Men, which we obviously didn't live through"
15. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:07:27 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ The Phoenician Scheme · theme · The anger and violence of the newest Anderson film recalls the angry-young-man streak here. · "this most recent movie reminded me, I think of that feeling of like, ooh, Wes is like, something's pissed him off."
16. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:22:38 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Magnolia · craft · Both blend European-cinema love with music-video sensibility and lead with musical taste. · "it's basically like criterion MTV. They have the sensibility and the style of music videos"
17. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:46:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid · craft · The film uses Bob Dylan's music from Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid a couple of times. · "and also the use of Bob Dylan's music from Pat Garrett and Billy and the Kid, a couple of times is beautiful."
18. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:17:30 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Richard Scarry books · craft · The big panoramic shot is like a Richard Scarry book with a magnifying glass: many characters each doing something. · "reading a Richard Scary book with a magnifying glass."
19. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:19:48 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Rushmore · craft · Both films use pop music (Ooh La La; the Van Morrison closer) to announce the theme. · "announcing the theme of the movie via pop music."
20. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:20:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid · craft · The wordless acoustic guitar theme from Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is one of the film's needle drops. · "And then the theme from Pacyard and Billy the Kid in that amazing, you know, that's just like a worldless acoustic guitar composition."
21. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:56:36 · Andy Greenwald (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ The Dreamers · contrast · If the Margot-Richie romance were not subtext you would have something like The Dreamers. · "then you have like Bertelucci's the Dreamers or something, and I don't think anybody really wants that."
22. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:11:55 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Moonrise Kingdom · contrast · Moonrise has kids trying to escape parenthood; Tenenbaums puts a father front and center. · "in Moonrise Kingdom, where you've got these kids kind of wandering around, who don't like are trying to escape the idea of parenthood."
23. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:11:55 · unknown (0.30)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ The Grand Budapest Hotel · contrast · In Budapest a stand-in father figure; Tenenbaums has Hackman front and center. · "in the Grand Budapest Hotel, where Ray finds his character as kind of a stand-in father figure"
24. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:40:24 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ The French Dispatch / Asteroid City / The Phoenician Scheme · contrast · The recent trilogy is more diorama-like and suffocating, less open than Tenenbaums. · "So they're not as open as tenant bombs is."
25. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:20:03 · Andy Greenwald (0.50)] The Grand Budapest Hotel ↔ The Royal Tenenbaums · career · Budapest wrestles with violence and history that Tenenbaums' sudden violence foreshadowed. · "Grand Budapest Hotel is kind of a masterpiece because it, in addition to being twee and delightful and absolutely hilarious, kind of wrestles with fascism and creeping violence"
26. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:21:43 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Magnolia · career · Each is its director's third film, where they hit both their emotional-trauma vein and big Hollywood budgets; both blessed by Scorsese. · "Magnolia and Tenna bombs were each of their 3rd films."

Films put beside it more than once (6)

1. [pairs] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ The Grand Budapest Hotel · said 4 times in 2 episodes
2. [pairs] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Hannah and Her Sisters · said 2 times in 2 episodes
3. [pairs] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid · said 2 times in 2 episodes
4. [pairs] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Magnolia · said 2 times in 1 episode
5. [pairs] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Rushmore · said 2 times in 1 episode
6. [pairs] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:33:14 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums · fun · Production ran on scale pay: Paltrow gave three weeks, Stiller ten days; the line producer scheduled it to look like a family together. · "Is the MVP the line producer who scheduled this to make it seem like they were a family all at the same time."
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:35:25 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Royal Tenenbaums · fun · Most rewatchable scenes pick: opening character-intro montage over Hey Jude; Margot's play review; Royal meets grandkids at the Y; Eli on mescaline. · "The pre-credit character introductions that you mentioned is scored by, hey, Jude."
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:40:59 · Andy Greenwald (0.60)] The Royal Tenenbaums · fun · Most rewatchable: the Etheline scene where Royal fakes dying, shot entirely in the wide with no close-ups; Hackman and Huston make you remember reactions you never see. · "But that whole scene is shot in the wide. There are no close-ups."
4. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:44:36 · Andy Greenwald (0.60)] The Royal Tenenbaums · fun · Margot background-file montage set to the Ramones: effortlessly stylish exposition, and the gleeful moment you realize the filmmaker has another gear. · "the Margot background file montage is, for me, like the most effortless, effortlessly stylish and expository and wonderful sequence"
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:58:03 · Andy Greenwald (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums · fun · Aged-worst category: Royal's casual racism toward Henry, read as a 1976 eye on Hackman, plus the slapstick ending and Stiller's unexplained tracksuits. · "I think it was made with a 1976 eye because that's where Royal slash Wes Anderson's love of Gene Hackman was stuck."
6. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 1:15:27 · Andy Greenwald (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums · fun · The Ambersons influence, the real Harlem house foreclosed and rented back to the production, and the Waldorf standing in for Royal's hotel. · "111 Archer is a real place. It's up in Harlem."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (5)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:31:56 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ The Grand Budapest Hotel · theme · Like Grand Budapest, the film explains why its maker is so fussy: to build a fantasy world people can escape to. · "the Ray Fines character explained to the audience why Wes Anderson is so fussy about these things"
2. [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:06:52 · unknown (0.40)] Eddington ↔ Magnolia · lineage · Austin Butler's televangelist recalls Tom Cruise in Magnolia. · "strong shades of Tom Cruise and Magnolia from Austin Butler there"
3. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:13:32 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ⇒ I'm Not There (the host's read) · lineage · Haynes styles one segment after Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid and another after Pennebaker, so the film is also different period filmmaking. · "he styles one whole segment after, you know, Pat Garrett and Noie the Kid."
4. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:56:11 · Andy Greenwald (0.50)] Moonrise Kingdom ↔ Rushmore · theme · Rushmore's childlike sex talk vs. Moonrise confronting adolescent sex directly. · "Later, I think in Moonrise Kingdom, he sort of more directly confronts like adolescent sex"
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 1:44:06 · unknown (0.30)] Magnolia ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · theme · The car-accident sequence feels a little like Magnolia, but the film is the anti-Magnolia on connectedness. · "This is sort of the anti-magnolia, which is like Ricky J is saying, like, surely these things mean something."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

1. [speaker] Andy Greenwald · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · Loves Anderson as a time capsule of his early-twenties New York longing, Salinger pastiche, indie rock and TV references. Believes the movie is a near-perfect masterpiece and exists for Chas's one line. Cannot stand twee excess, finding Darjeeling problematic. · stances: Movie is perfect, no remake; Chas's 'rough year' line is the emotional core; Gwyneth Paltrow's Margot is her last great performance; Luke Wilson was underrated and sad
2. [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
3. [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

The shows' running bits (2)

1. [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)
2. [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)

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) 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 Royal Tenenbaums (2001) 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 · Vanilla Sky · 1:45:35 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Vanilla Sky · programming · Tenenbaums opened the same week as Vanilla Sky in 5 theaters and averaged $55,000. · "Tenenbaums comes out that very week on 5 theaters and it grosses $276,000"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:07:20 · Andy Greenwald (0.60)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Pulp Fiction · lineage · Both are 'emptying the cupboard' of their makers' influences and obsessions, introducing a whole cinematic world through soundtrack, look and talk. · "it's like pulp fiction or Grand Royal magazine, where it's just like the emptying of the cupboard of influences and obsessions."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:31:25 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Franny and Zooey · lineage · The movie is a Salinger pastiche; Anderson would need a Salinger adaptation as IP cover today. · "he would have to make Franny and Zooey. Like he would have to make an adaptation of a Salinger novel"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 1:16:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Magnificent Ambersons ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read) · lineage · Named as a huge influence; rewatching Ambersons shows how much of it is in Tenenbaums. · "it's wild how much, uh, ten bombs or how much Amberson's is in ten bombs."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:05:35 · unknown (0.40)] The Catcher in the Rye / Franny and Zooey ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read) · lineage · Salinger's Glass-family stories are the key literary influence. · "Zoe is like the key influence on this film"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:05:56 · unknown (0.40)] From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read) · lineage · The vibe of that kid-runaway book imbues the first 40 minutes, including the narration and child-genius portraiture. · "the whole vibe of that book is imbued in the 1st 40 minutes of this movie, most of the narration, most of the young Tenenbaum's portraiture of these 3 child geniuses."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:06:33 · unknown (0.40)] French New Wave ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read) · lineage · Combines the emotionality and cutting style of French new wave with the rawness of 70s American cinema. · "You've got 70s American cinema and you've also got 60s French new wave."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:09:20 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Hal Ashby films · lineage · Offered as obvious comparison points, though Anderson's sensibility feels new. · "you can say, oh, this is kind of like Hal Ashby movies or this is kind of like true foam movies, but his sensibility."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:21:45 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ The Squid and the Whale · lineage · Named as a companion film for blending comedy with sadness. · "I did write down the squid and the whale as kind of like a companion film to this film."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:37:15 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Hannah and Her Sisters · lineage · Recommended for its rare combination of sadness and comedy. · "I wrote down Hannah and her sisters, which is a rare combination of that sadness in that comedy."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:37:23 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Terms of Endearment · lineage · Recommended as a James L. Brooks sad-comedy relative. · "terms of endearment."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:37:40 · unknown (0.40)] Harold and Maud ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read) · lineage · Off-kilter characterization, 70s feel, overcoats, and suicide attempts; in the bloodstream of Tenenbaums and Squid and the Whale. · "Harold and Maud is very much in the bloodstream of, of, the Royal Ten of bombs and Squid and the whale."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:37:53 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Arrested Development · lineage · Recommended for those who liked the sitcom about a crazy, wealthy family. · "If you liked that sitcom about a crazy, wealthy family, then there's definitely a lot to match this up with."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:07:35 · Andy Greenwald (0.60)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Mad Men · theme · Both romanticize an era their audience didn't live through, with tactile detail. · "something like Mad Men, which we obviously didn't live through"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:07:27 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ The Phoenician Scheme · theme · The anger and violence of the newest Anderson film recalls the angry-young-man streak here. · "this most recent movie reminded me, I think of that feeling of like, ooh, Wes is like, something's pissed him off."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:22:38 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Magnolia · craft · Both blend European-cinema love with music-video sensibility and lead with musical taste. · "it's basically like criterion MTV. They have the sensibility and the style of music videos"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:46:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid · craft · The film uses Bob Dylan's music from Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid a couple of times. · "and also the use of Bob Dylan's music from Pat Garrett and Billy and the Kid, a couple of times is beautiful."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:17:30 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Richard Scarry books · craft · The big panoramic shot is like a Richard Scarry book with a magnifying glass: many characters each doing something. · "reading a Richard Scary book with a magnifying glass."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:19:48 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Rushmore · craft · Both films use pop music (Ooh La La; the Van Morrison closer) to announce the theme. · "announcing the theme of the movie via pop music."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:20:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid · craft · The wordless acoustic guitar theme from Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is one of the film's needle drops. · "And then the theme from Pacyard and Billy the Kid in that amazing, you know, that's just like a worldless acoustic guitar composition."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:56:36 · Andy Greenwald (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ The Dreamers · contrast · If the Margot-Richie romance were not subtext you would have something like The Dreamers. · "then you have like Bertelucci's the Dreamers or something, and I don't think anybody really wants that."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:11:55 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Moonrise Kingdom · contrast · Moonrise has kids trying to escape parenthood; Tenenbaums puts a father front and center. · "in Moonrise Kingdom, where you've got these kids kind of wandering around, who don't like are trying to escape the idea of parenthood."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:11:55 · unknown (0.30)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ The Grand Budapest Hotel · contrast · In Budapest a stand-in father figure; Tenenbaums has Hackman front and center. · "in the Grand Budapest Hotel, where Ray finds his character as kind of a stand-in father figure"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:40:24 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ The French Dispatch / Asteroid City / The Phoenician Scheme · contrast · The recent trilogy is more diorama-like and suffocating, less open than Tenenbaums. · "So they're not as open as tenant bombs is."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:20:03 · Andy Greenwald (0.50)] The Grand Budapest Hotel ↔ The Royal Tenenbaums · career · Budapest wrestles with violence and history that Tenenbaums' sudden violence foreshadowed. · "Grand Budapest Hotel is kind of a masterpiece because it, in addition to being twee and delightful and absolutely hilarious, kind of wrestles with fascism and creeping violence"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:21:43 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Magnolia · career · Each is its director's third film, where they hit both their emotional-trauma vein and big Hollywood budgets; both blessed by Scorsese. · "Magnolia and Tenna bombs were each of their 3rd films."
[pairs] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ The Grand Budapest Hotel · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Hannah and Her Sisters · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Magnolia · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Rushmore · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:33:14 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums · fun · Production ran on scale pay: Paltrow gave three weeks, Stiller ten days; the line producer scheduled it to look like a family together. · "Is the MVP the line producer who scheduled this to make it seem like they were a family all at the same time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:35:25 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Royal Tenenbaums · fun · Most rewatchable scenes pick: opening character-intro montage over Hey Jude; Margot's play review; Royal meets grandkids at the Y; Eli on mescaline. · "The pre-credit character introductions that you mentioned is scored by, hey, Jude."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:40:59 · Andy Greenwald (0.60)] The Royal Tenenbaums · fun · Most rewatchable: the Etheline scene where Royal fakes dying, shot entirely in the wide with no close-ups; Hackman and Huston make you remember reactions you never see. · "But that whole scene is shot in the wide. There are no close-ups."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:44:36 · Andy Greenwald (0.60)] The Royal Tenenbaums · fun · Margot background-file montage set to the Ramones: effortlessly stylish exposition, and the gleeful moment you realize the filmmaker has another gear. · "the Margot background file montage is, for me, like the most effortless, effortlessly stylish and expository and wonderful sequence"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:58:03 · Andy Greenwald (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums · fun · Aged-worst category: Royal's casual racism toward Henry, read as a 1976 eye on Hackman, plus the slapstick ending and Stiller's unexplained tracksuits. · "I think it was made with a 1976 eye because that's where Royal slash Wes Anderson's love of Gene Hackman was stuck."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 1:15:27 · Andy Greenwald (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums · fun · The Ambersons influence, the real Harlem house foreclosed and rented back to the production, and the Waldorf standing in for Royal's hotel. · "111 Archer is a real place. It's up in Harlem."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:31:56 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ The Grand Budapest Hotel · theme · Like Grand Budapest, the film explains why its maker is so fussy: to build a fantasy world people can escape to. · "the Ray Fines character explained to the audience why Wes Anderson is so fussy about these things"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:06:52 · unknown (0.40)] Eddington ↔ Magnolia · lineage · Austin Butler's televangelist recalls Tom Cruise in Magnolia. · "strong shades of Tom Cruise and Magnolia from Austin Butler there"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:13:32 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ⇒ I'm Not There (the host's read) · lineage · Haynes styles one segment after Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid and another after Pennebaker, so the film is also different period filmmaking. · "he styles one whole segment after, you know, Pat Garrett and Noie the Kid."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:56:11 · Andy Greenwald (0.50)] Moonrise Kingdom ↔ Rushmore · theme · Rushmore's childlike sex talk vs. Moonrise confronting adolescent sex directly. · "Later, I think in Moonrise Kingdom, he sort of more directly confronts like adolescent sex"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 1:44:06 · unknown (0.30)] Magnolia ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · theme · The car-accident sequence feels a little like Magnolia, but the film is the anti-Magnolia on connectedness. · "This is sort of the anti-magnolia, which is like Ricky J is saying, like, surely these things mean something."
[speaker] Andy Greenwald · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · Loves Anderson as a time capsule of his early-twenties New York longing, Salinger pastiche, indie rock and TV references. Believes the movie is a near-perfect masterpiece and exists for Chas's one line. Cannot stand twee excess, finding Darjeeling problematic. · stances: Movie is perfect, no remake; Chas's 'rough year' line is the emotional core; Gwyneth Paltrow's Margot is her last great performance; Luke Wilson was underrated and sad
[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] 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
[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 The Royal Tenenbaums (2001); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) 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.