What the corpus says about The Conversation (1974)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Conversation (1974) 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 Conversation (1974) 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 · Zodiac · 2:14:21 · unknown (0.40)] The Conversation ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · craft · The Conversation's score was used as temp music while Zodiac was cut, then Shire scored it. · "they use the conversation score as temp score."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:34:42 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Gene Hackman ↔ The Conversation · career · Tenenbaums sits among Hackman's best alongside a list of 70s-80s films. · "it's up there with the conversation and night moves and French connection and Crimson Tide and Hoosiers."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:20:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Zodiac ↔ Almost Famous · programming · AI cut-your-own-runtime fantasy: trim Zodiac to 97 minutes; instead Bill watched the bootleg Almost Famous with 35 extra minutes. · "we watch the bootleg cut the 2nd time, which has like 35 minutes of additional scenes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:50:16 · Leslye Headland (0.80)] L.A. Confidential ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · lineage · Leslye says Zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of L.A. Confidential. · "zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:50:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Robert Graysmith ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · lineage · The Salerno script, which Vanderbilt took over, adapted Graysmith's nonfiction book (with a speculative sequel bolted on). · "So it's sort of like an adaptation of Graysmith's nonfiction book and a speculative sequence."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90)] Zodiac ↔ The Shining · theme · Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore. · "It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90)] Zodiac ↔ Back to the Future · theme · Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore. · "It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90)] Zodiac ↔ The Apartment · theme · Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore. · "It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:56:14 · unknown (0.30)] L.A. Confidential ↔ Zodiac · theme · The vanishing Avery is likened to the Kevin Spacey character in L.A. Confidential. · "Like, like the Kevin Spacey character."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 2:07:42 · Leslye Headland (0.50)] Alfred Hitchcock ↔ Zodiac · theme · Leslye says Fincher uses full Hitchcock in the Fleischer basement scene, which is wholly subjective. · "No, Fincher is using full Hitchcock to do a scene that is entirely subjective."
[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
[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 Conversation (1974); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Conversation (1974) 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.