What the corpus says about The French Connection (1971)

The 42 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (5)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:14 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ The French Connection · lineage · Dirty-cop movies trace back to the 70s classics, the French Connection and Serpico among them. · "Yeah, connection."
  2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:23:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] The French Connection ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · Recast Popeye Doyle as Axel Foley and the movie barely changes; the apartments are essentially the same. · "Like you take the French connection and you recast Dean Hackman's, you make Popeye Doyle, Axel Foley."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:39:39 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ The French Connection · lineage · Another cop movie where the hero is a mess consumed by one case. · "French connection where there's not like an overt life crisis, but he's like a fucking mess of a guy"
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:58:08 · Andy Greenwald (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ The French Connection · people · Royal talks like Popeye Doyle; Anderson loves 70s Hackman. · "So he talks like Popeye Doyle, right? Like from the French connection."
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:19:52 · Wesley Morris (0.60)] The French Connection ↔ Pauline Kael · verdict · Kael has an interesting take on how black audiences respond to The French Connection, brought up to explain her BHC reaction. · "she's got a really interesting take on, on, on French Connection, for instance"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (32)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:09:37 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ⇒ Shawn Ryan (the host's read) · programming · Shawn Ryan tried a Beverly Hills Cop TV show; CBS made a pilot that didn't work. · "that CBS did a pilot for and apparently it didn't work."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:24:23 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Zoolander · programming · Zoolander's Blue Steel ruined the title of Bigelow's film. · "It is weird now that like this movie's title is totally ruined by Zoolander."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:29:57 · Van Lathan (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Bad Influence · programming · Offered as the best double-feature choice because of this weird era of psychosexual movies. · "I had bad influence just because this weird era that we're in now with like weird psychosex movies."
  4. [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"
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:09:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Brandon T. Jackson · programming · In the pilot Brandon T. Jackson played Axel Foley's son. · "Brandon T. Jackson was Axel Foley's son."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:26:39 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ The Hunt for Red October · programming · The weekend Blue Steel opened, The Hunt for Red October was number one. · "It's a huge box on October, right? For Red October."
  7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:04:53 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Training Day · lineage · The dirty-cop pantheon: The Departed and Training Day have to be in there with Internal Affairs. · "I mean, departed in training day?"
  8. [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."
  9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:07:52 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] 1970s cop movies ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · The first film feels like an extension of 70s cop movies, especially the Detroit material, while the sequel feels glossy and 80s. · "There's a world in which that almost feels like an extension of like 70s cop movies."
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:28:23 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Joe Versus the Volcano · programming · Number two that weekend was Joe Versus the Volcano, a critical bomb for Tom Hanks. · "Oh, Joe versus the volcano?"
  11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:04:59 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ Cop Land · lineage · A speaker puts Cop Land in the dirty-cop pantheon, mostly for Ray Liotta. · "For me, Coplands in there."
  12. [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"
  13. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Dirty Harry · lineage · The film plays closer to a 70s crime movie like Dirty Harry or The Outfit than to an 80s action blockbuster. · "this movie's way closer to like Dirty Harry or the outfit or 7, like a 70s crime movie than it is like our idea of like 80s action blockbuster."
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:29:17 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Lord of the Flies · programming · Number three that weekend was the 1990 Lord of the Flies. · "The 1990 Lord of the Flies."
  15. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:22 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ The Seven-Ups · lineage · The Roy Scheider movie that is French Connection adjacent is a favorite dirty-cop picture. · "The Roy Schider movie that's kind of like French connection adjacent has always been one of my favorites."
  16. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:53:10 · Andy Greenwald (0.50)] Jean-Luc Godard ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the maker said so: Matt Zoller Seitz's book on the movie) · lineage · The mosaic of book covers was inspired by a Godard movie doing something similar. · "he was inspired by, I think it was a Godard movie that did something similar, of course."
  17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ The Outfit · lineage · Grouped with Dirty Harry as a 70s crime-movie ancestor. · "this movie's way closer to like Dirty Harry or the outfit or 7, like a 70s crime movie"
  18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:30:22 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ House Party · programming · Number four that weekend was House Party. · "Oh, house party. house party."
  19. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ Prince of the City · lineage · Prince of the City named as another great dirty-cop movie from the 70s run. · "Uh, Prince of the City is another great dirty cop movie."
  20. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 1:15:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Louis Malle ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read) · lineage · French New Wave directors listed among its influences. · "some of the influences on this movie include films by Louis Maule. Um, uh, Francois Truffaux, Sholu Qadar, the French New Wave."
  21. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:19 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Richard Roundtree · lineage · The film is called a blaxploitation movie with one of the few true movie-star performances, and Roundtree is named as the only true movie star of that era. · "black exploitation movie with like one of the few movie star performances."
  22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:05:23 · David Sims (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Halloween · lineage · Calls Blue Steel a slasher with Ron Silver as Michael Myers and cites Ebert calling it the best Halloween sequel. · "I read back to Roger Ebert's review, and he said, this is actually the best Halloween sequel that's ever been made."
  23. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:07:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Live and Die in L.A. · lineage · Bill places Internal Affairs alongside Live and Die in L.A. as a cool pre-Heat L.A. conflict movie. · "it's up there with like live and die in LA of like a really cool preheat LA conflict."
  24. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 1:15:59 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Francois Truffaut ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read) · lineage · French New Wave influence. · "Francois Truffaux, Sholu Qadar, the French New Wave."
  25. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:27:42 · unknown (0.40)] In the Heat of the Night ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · Described as In the Heat of the Night meets Beverly Hills; both are fish-out-of-water movies. · "said that the Beverly Hills Cop is essentially in the heat of the night meets Beverly Hills."
  26. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:34:56 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ Dirty Harry · lineage · The after-shooting inquiry echoes the way Dirty Harry handled a cop's use of force. · "Dirty Harry done the same thing."
  27. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:15:52 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Colors ↔ Internal Affairs · lineage · Colors is a renegade-cop movie, not a dirty-cop one, and has aged badly while Internal Affairs holds up. · "Well, I mean, they're, they're, in colors, they're more renegade cops than they are dirty cops because they still have some cop type ethos."
  28. [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."
  29. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:32:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · The Detroit opening with the two guys in the truck has a Mean Streets moment that distinguishes it from other 80s blockbusters. · "I love the fact that they just like kind of have this mean streets moment in the beginning of this movie."
  30. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:39:36 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ Prince of the City · lineage · Describes the cop-in-crisis strain of 70s cop movies, as in Lumet's Prince of the City. · "Right? So you Lumet's Prince in the city."
  31. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:27:04 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Bad Influence · lineage · Bad Influence came out the same year and is similarly unhinged, part of an 89 to 91 run of dark sex-tinged movies. · "But there's like, because also bad influence with Rob Lowe and James Bader comes out this year."
  32. [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"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

  1. [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
  2. [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
  3. [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

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

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md 
You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The French Connection (1971) 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 French Connection (1971) 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 Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:14 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ The French Connection · lineage · Dirty-cop movies trace back to the 70s classics, the French Connection and Serpico among them. · "Yeah, connection."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:23:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] The French Connection ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · Recast Popeye Doyle as Axel Foley and the movie barely changes; the apartments are essentially the same. · "Like you take the French connection and you recast Dean Hackman's, you make Popeye Doyle, Axel Foley."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:39:39 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ The French Connection · lineage · Another cop movie where the hero is a mess consumed by one case. · "French connection where there's not like an overt life crisis, but he's like a fucking mess of a guy"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:58:08 · Andy Greenwald (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ The French Connection · people · Royal talks like Popeye Doyle; Anderson loves 70s Hackman. · "So he talks like Popeye Doyle, right? Like from the French connection."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:19:52 · Wesley Morris (0.60)] The French Connection ↔ Pauline Kael · verdict · Kael has an interesting take on how black audiences respond to The French Connection, brought up to explain her BHC reaction. · "she's got a really interesting take on, on, on French Connection, for instance"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:09:37 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ⇒ Shawn Ryan (the host's read) · programming · Shawn Ryan tried a Beverly Hills Cop TV show; CBS made a pilot that didn't work. · "that CBS did a pilot for and apparently it didn't work."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:24:23 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Zoolander · programming · Zoolander's Blue Steel ruined the title of Bigelow's film. · "It is weird now that like this movie's title is totally ruined by Zoolander."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:29:57 · Van Lathan (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Bad Influence · programming · Offered as the best double-feature choice because of this weird era of psychosexual movies. · "I had bad influence just because this weird era that we're in now with like weird psychosex movies."
[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 · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:09:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Brandon T. Jackson · programming · In the pilot Brandon T. Jackson played Axel Foley's son. · "Brandon T. Jackson was Axel Foley's son."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:26:39 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ The Hunt for Red October · programming · The weekend Blue Steel opened, The Hunt for Red October was number one. · "It's a huge box on October, right? For Red October."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:04:53 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Training Day · lineage · The dirty-cop pantheon: The Departed and Training Day have to be in there with Internal Affairs. · "I mean, departed in training day?"
[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 · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:07:52 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] 1970s cop movies ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · The first film feels like an extension of 70s cop movies, especially the Detroit material, while the sequel feels glossy and 80s. · "There's a world in which that almost feels like an extension of like 70s cop movies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:28:23 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Joe Versus the Volcano · programming · Number two that weekend was Joe Versus the Volcano, a critical bomb for Tom Hanks. · "Oh, Joe versus the volcano?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:04:59 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ Cop Land · lineage · A speaker puts Cop Land in the dirty-cop pantheon, mostly for Ray Liotta. · "For me, Coplands in there."
[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 · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Dirty Harry · lineage · The film plays closer to a 70s crime movie like Dirty Harry or The Outfit than to an 80s action blockbuster. · "this movie's way closer to like Dirty Harry or the outfit or 7, like a 70s crime movie than it is like our idea of like 80s action blockbuster."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:29:17 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Lord of the Flies · programming · Number three that weekend was the 1990 Lord of the Flies. · "The 1990 Lord of the Flies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:22 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ The Seven-Ups · lineage · The Roy Scheider movie that is French Connection adjacent is a favorite dirty-cop picture. · "The Roy Schider movie that's kind of like French connection adjacent has always been one of my favorites."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:53:10 · Andy Greenwald (0.50)] Jean-Luc Godard ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the maker said so: Matt Zoller Seitz's book on the movie) · lineage · The mosaic of book covers was inspired by a Godard movie doing something similar. · "he was inspired by, I think it was a Godard movie that did something similar, of course."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ The Outfit · lineage · Grouped with Dirty Harry as a 70s crime-movie ancestor. · "this movie's way closer to like Dirty Harry or the outfit or 7, like a 70s crime movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:30:22 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ House Party · programming · Number four that weekend was House Party. · "Oh, house party. house party."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ Prince of the City · lineage · Prince of the City named as another great dirty-cop movie from the 70s run. · "Uh, Prince of the City is another great dirty cop movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 1:15:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Louis Malle ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read) · lineage · French New Wave directors listed among its influences. · "some of the influences on this movie include films by Louis Maule. Um, uh, Francois Truffaux, Sholu Qadar, the French New Wave."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:19 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Richard Roundtree · lineage · The film is called a blaxploitation movie with one of the few true movie-star performances, and Roundtree is named as the only true movie star of that era. · "black exploitation movie with like one of the few movie star performances."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:05:23 · David Sims (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Halloween · lineage · Calls Blue Steel a slasher with Ron Silver as Michael Myers and cites Ebert calling it the best Halloween sequel. · "I read back to Roger Ebert's review, and he said, this is actually the best Halloween sequel that's ever been made."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:07:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Live and Die in L.A. · lineage · Bill places Internal Affairs alongside Live and Die in L.A. as a cool pre-Heat L.A. conflict movie. · "it's up there with like live and die in LA of like a really cool preheat LA conflict."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 1:15:59 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Francois Truffaut ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read) · lineage · French New Wave influence. · "Francois Truffaux, Sholu Qadar, the French New Wave."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:27:42 · unknown (0.40)] In the Heat of the Night ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · Described as In the Heat of the Night meets Beverly Hills; both are fish-out-of-water movies. · "said that the Beverly Hills Cop is essentially in the heat of the night meets Beverly Hills."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:34:56 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ Dirty Harry · lineage · The after-shooting inquiry echoes the way Dirty Harry handled a cop's use of force. · "Dirty Harry done the same thing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:15:52 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Colors ↔ Internal Affairs · lineage · Colors is a renegade-cop movie, not a dirty-cop one, and has aged badly while Internal Affairs holds up. · "Well, I mean, they're, they're, in colors, they're more renegade cops than they are dirty cops because they still have some cop type ethos."
[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 Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:32:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · The Detroit opening with the two guys in the truck has a Mean Streets moment that distinguishes it from other 80s blockbusters. · "I love the fact that they just like kind of have this mean streets moment in the beginning of this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:39:36 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ Prince of the City · lineage · Describes the cop-in-crisis strain of 70s cop movies, as in Lumet's Prince of the City. · "Right? So you Lumet's Prince in the city."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:27:04 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Bad Influence · lineage · Bad Influence came out the same year and is similarly unhinged, part of an 89 to 91 run of dark sex-tinged movies. · "But there's like, because also bad influence with Rob Lowe and James Bader comes out this year."
[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"
[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
[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
[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 French Connection (1971); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The French Connection (1971) 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.