What the corpus says about Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

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What was said about it (26)

[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:18:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Silence · programming · Amanda watched Silence the day before and went straight to Killers. · "I watched silence yesterday and immediately went to sit down with you to watch Killers of the Flower Moon"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:35:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · lineage · The car make-out scene is a funny Titanic callback. · "I thought there was a really funny callback to Titanic when they're making out in the car."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:00:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Kundun · lineage · An American version of the desolate landscapes and haunting spirituality of Kundun, Silence, Last Temptation. · "it is him doing an American version in some ways of what he did in Kundun, in silence, and last temptation of Christ"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:26:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Both feature a too-smart-for-his-own-good man doing dumb things who thinks he'll get away with it. · "I thought a lot of Wolf of Wall Street. While doing it because that is a guy who is too smart for his own good, but also doing a lot of really dumb shit."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:59:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Giant · theme · Its magnitude and oil, family and betrayal themes recall Giant, with Ford, Hawks, Stevens epic scale. · "I did think of giant a few times while watching the movie, which is a movie about oil and families and betrayal."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:00:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Shane · theme · Sean notes Scorsese often talks about Shane when discussing Westerns. · "Scorsese talks about Shane a lot."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:16:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · craft · Ferrari's quick impressionistic opening flashback recalls the silent-film-style opening of Killers of the Flower Moon. · "it reminded me a bit of the opening sequence of the Killers of the Flower Moon, where it's kind of shot in this old school, like silent film style."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:14:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Goodfellas ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · craft · The opening tracking shot echoes the Copacabana shot before the film rejects that mode. · "It was a very long tracking shot through Leo's arrival, which is, you know, gesturing to Copacabana"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:31:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Oppenheimer · craft · Oppenheimer's score is the main challenge to Robertson's score winning. · "I think Oppenheimer presents a big challenge there."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:28:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Goodfellas ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · contrast · Same crimes by white men but with no romance or good life, a deliberate answer to Goodfellas' seductiveness. · "there's a romance to Goodfellas that does not exist here."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:33:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Lessons in Chemistry ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · contrast · Greenwald's critique of anachronistic righteous modern politics in a period piece is contrasted with Killers refusing pop morality. · "This movie does not do that."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:15:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · people · 2023 was defined by films that force conversation about the filmmakers (Gerwig, Scorsese, Nolan, Fincher) and their pasts. · "this year has really been defined by these movies with by filmmakers who have such towering personas."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:25:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ What's Eating Gilbert Grape · people · DiCaprio's mannered Ernest is the nearest earlier performance in his career. · "The only thing I could think of that was sort of in this zone is what's eating Gilbert Grape"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:03:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Casino · verdict · Sean's first impression put it in Scorsese's second tier with the big epics. · "this reminds me a lot of casino. It reminds me a lot of silence."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:03:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Silence · verdict · Grouped with the hard-to-make, resonant big epics. · "It reminds me a lot of silence."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:34:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ No Country for Old Men · verdict · Last nihilistic Best Picture winner, offered as the comparison for how unlikely this one is to win. · "when was the last time a movie that was this nihilistic one best picture? Is it is it no country for old men?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:30:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Irishman · industry · Predicts an Irishman-style awards run: many nominations, few wins. · "Okay, so you think it'll be an Irishman situation? I do."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:36:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Oppenheimer · industry · Oppenheimer is the likely Best Picture winner, with Killers second or third; also a 'great men' versus 'were there any great men' contrast. · "I feel like Christopher Nolan believes that there were great men in history."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:21:21 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · length debate · The too-long objection to Babylon is the same issue as the Killers of the Flower Moon debate. · "You know, this is a very similar issue to me as the, um, Killers of the Flower Moon debate, which is that for some people, this is just too long."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:03:00 · Tim Simons (0.45)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Irishman · Criterion route · Hope Killers gets a Criterion partnership like The Irishman did; Apple films otherwise have no physical release. · "At some point there will be like a criterion partnership like they did with the Irishman."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:14:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] The Velvet Underground ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · Apple physical · Velvet Underground is the one Apple movie with a physical release (Criterion). · "Actually, that's the one Apple movie that has a physical release."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:16:02 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] The Killer ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · promo absence · Because actors weren't doing press during the strike, audiences were thinking about Marty rather than DiCaprio appearances. · "we didn't get hit with like 10 Leonardo DiCaprio TV and podcast appearances before Killers of the Flower Moon."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:02:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Killer ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · possible last film · Both give the feeling they could be a last movie, a fitting conclusion. · "I had the same feeling at the end of this movie, though, where I was like, this kind of could just be a last movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:24:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Taxi Driver · dim protagonist · Ernest joins Scorsese's lineage of dim men wreaking havoc: Jake LaMotta, Travis Bickle, Henry Hill. · "You could say this is true of Jake Lamata. You could say this is true of Travis Bickle. You could say this is true of Henry Hill."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:24:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Raging Bull · dim protagonist · Jake LaMotta cited as an earlier dim Scorsese protagonist. · "You could say this is true of Jake Lamata."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:27:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · filmmaker in dialogue · The film is in dialogue with what its artists did before (Goodfellas, Wolf, every De Niro character). · "this movie is in dialogue with what all of its artists and filmmakers have done before."

Films put beside it more than once (6)

[pairs] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Irishman · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Goodfellas · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Killer · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Oppenheimer · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Silence · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:01:56 · Tim Simons (0.55)] Killers of the Flower Moon · fun · Rewatching on Apple TV the speaker found himself watching a car detailing reel mid-film, the case for putting in a disc. · "I had somehow started watching a car detailing Instagram reel during killers of the flower moon."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:20:53 · Tim Simons (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon · fun · Underappreciated DiCaprio performance, plays smooth while pretending not to know about the murders. · "I think it's an underappreciated performance in Killers of the Flower Moon."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:02:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon · fun · They saw it twice, the second time together at 2:30 p.m. at a local AMC the day before recording; Sean calls it a masterpiece but jokes he needed seven hours to get there. · "I don't know whether the joke is on the movie or me that I had to see it twice to get to that, um, point"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:07:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon · fun · At 3:26 on 3,800 screens it may be the longest widely released movie of the century, and a live check of Gettysburg (4:21) gets no theatrical box office listing. · "I am live Googling Gettysburg, the movie, the 1993 film."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:26:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon · fun · Early rewrite lore: DiCaprio was to play FBI investigator Tom White in the procedural version, then pushed Scorsese to rewrite and took Ernest instead. · "Leo was originally slated to play FBI investigator Tom White in the more procedural version of the film, and he went to Scorsese and said, I think there's something missing here"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:32:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon · fun · The Lily Gladstone and DiCaprio dining-room promo still that became a meme for years turns out to be one of the movie's two or three most important scenes, and plays differently in motion. · "It is also like one of the 2 or 3 most important scenes in the movie."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (17)

[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 Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length. · "I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:20:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Fight Club · programming · Both are very funny first-person-narrated films about sociopaths who rationalize brutal violence as a personal mission. · "This movie would make a neat pairing with Fight Club. Two very funny films about sociopaths whose inner monologues rationalize brutal violence as expressions of a personal mission."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:23:57 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · programming · Koppelman's double-feature picks are Wolf of Wall Street or Sweet Smell of Success. · "Either wolf of Wall Street or sweet smell of success."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:18:40 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Oppenheimer ↔ The DUFF · theme · Pop culture now runs on visual memes: Cillian Murphy looking down in Oppenheimer, the Duff quarterback. · "Because now it's like a screenshot of Killian Murphy from Oppenheimer after like the what have I done?"
[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 Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:26:39 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] Chris Ryan ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Pick 1 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Easy first pick; one of his favorite movies ever made. · "one of my favorite movies ever made, Martin Scorsese's uh, epic, darkly comic look at the rise and fall of the American mob"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:16:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killer ↔ Steven Soderbergh · programming · A friend of the podcast says it is Fincher and Soderbergh land: a stripped-down genre exercise. · "it's Fincher and Sodaberg land."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:25:01 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Boiler Room ⇒ The Wolf of Wall Street (the host's read) · lineage · Koppelman says Boiler Room informed Wolf, being the fictional version of Jordan Belfort's story. · "Boiler Room really informed Wolf of Wall Street because Boiler Room was the fictional version of Jordan's story"
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:23:13 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Hoita ↔ Oppenheimer · craft · A speaker relays that on Oppenheimer, per Downey, the actors had no marks and the camera side and Nolan followed their movements. · "Downey makes it sound like they could just like walk into a room and do all sorts of things and it was like Hoita and Nolan were like, we'll follow you."
[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"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:17:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · It is the closest Fincher has come to a pure thriller since Gone Girl, maybe Dragon Tattoo. · "he hasn't made a movie quite like this, I guess, since Gone Girl, but even, I mean, you could maybe even going back further to Dragon Tattoo is maybe a little closer to this kind of a pure thriller."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:16:54 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ⇒ One Battle After Another (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese influenced PTA, and the uncomfortable-laughter humor of Wolf is very PTA. · "Scorsese is a huge influence on all filmmakers, including PTA, and there is a, like, a really screwed up level to the humor in this movie that is that is very PTA as well"
[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."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.40)] Goodfellas ⇒ My Blue Heaven (the host's read) · lineage · My Blue Heaven is blown out by Goodfellas as it is the same movie, like a sequel. · "It got kind of blown out of the water by Goodfellas because it's the same movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:20:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Rear Window ⇒ The Killer (the host's read) · lineage · The Paris hit sequence is a clear homage built on watching rooms across the street. · "it is a kind of rear window monkey. You know, it is like an attempt to recreate the across the street path, vision of what is happening in rooms in another building, and clear homage to that film."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (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
[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] Tim Simons · latest sketch, Blank Check · Fearless · Adores Bradley Whitford, Jeff Bridges, and unbridled positivity about moviegoing. Lover of old movies he has not seen yet. Can be contrarian ('movie MAGA mode') about near-consensus films and U2. Moved by performance and craft more than plot. · stances: Fearless is uniformly excellent, the first 30 and last 20 minutes transcendent; Jeff Bridges is peak, subtle and singular; the Fearless ending locks all puzzle pieces; nitpicks consensus classics

The shows' running bits (2)

[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)

The whole prompt

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You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) 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 Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) 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 · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:18:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Silence · programming · Amanda watched Silence the day before and went straight to Killers. · "I watched silence yesterday and immediately went to sit down with you to watch Killers of the Flower Moon"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:35:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · lineage · The car make-out scene is a funny Titanic callback. · "I thought there was a really funny callback to Titanic when they're making out in the car."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:00:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Kundun · lineage · An American version of the desolate landscapes and haunting spirituality of Kundun, Silence, Last Temptation. · "it is him doing an American version in some ways of what he did in Kundun, in silence, and last temptation of Christ"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:26:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Both feature a too-smart-for-his-own-good man doing dumb things who thinks he'll get away with it. · "I thought a lot of Wolf of Wall Street. While doing it because that is a guy who is too smart for his own good, but also doing a lot of really dumb shit."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:59:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Giant · theme · Its magnitude and oil, family and betrayal themes recall Giant, with Ford, Hawks, Stevens epic scale. · "I did think of giant a few times while watching the movie, which is a movie about oil and families and betrayal."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:00:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Shane · theme · Sean notes Scorsese often talks about Shane when discussing Westerns. · "Scorsese talks about Shane a lot."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:16:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · craft · Ferrari's quick impressionistic opening flashback recalls the silent-film-style opening of Killers of the Flower Moon. · "it reminded me a bit of the opening sequence of the Killers of the Flower Moon, where it's kind of shot in this old school, like silent film style."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:14:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Goodfellas ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · craft · The opening tracking shot echoes the Copacabana shot before the film rejects that mode. · "It was a very long tracking shot through Leo's arrival, which is, you know, gesturing to Copacabana"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:31:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Oppenheimer · craft · Oppenheimer's score is the main challenge to Robertson's score winning. · "I think Oppenheimer presents a big challenge there."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:28:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Goodfellas ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · contrast · Same crimes by white men but with no romance or good life, a deliberate answer to Goodfellas' seductiveness. · "there's a romance to Goodfellas that does not exist here."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:33:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Lessons in Chemistry ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · contrast · Greenwald's critique of anachronistic righteous modern politics in a period piece is contrasted with Killers refusing pop morality. · "This movie does not do that."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:15:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · people · 2023 was defined by films that force conversation about the filmmakers (Gerwig, Scorsese, Nolan, Fincher) and their pasts. · "this year has really been defined by these movies with by filmmakers who have such towering personas."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:25:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ What's Eating Gilbert Grape · people · DiCaprio's mannered Ernest is the nearest earlier performance in his career. · "The only thing I could think of that was sort of in this zone is what's eating Gilbert Grape"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:03:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Casino · verdict · Sean's first impression put it in Scorsese's second tier with the big epics. · "this reminds me a lot of casino. It reminds me a lot of silence."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:03:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Silence · verdict · Grouped with the hard-to-make, resonant big epics. · "It reminds me a lot of silence."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:34:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ No Country for Old Men · verdict · Last nihilistic Best Picture winner, offered as the comparison for how unlikely this one is to win. · "when was the last time a movie that was this nihilistic one best picture? Is it is it no country for old men?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:30:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Irishman · industry · Predicts an Irishman-style awards run: many nominations, few wins. · "Okay, so you think it'll be an Irishman situation? I do."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:36:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Oppenheimer · industry · Oppenheimer is the likely Best Picture winner, with Killers second or third; also a 'great men' versus 'were there any great men' contrast. · "I feel like Christopher Nolan believes that there were great men in history."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:21:21 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · length debate · The too-long objection to Babylon is the same issue as the Killers of the Flower Moon debate. · "You know, this is a very similar issue to me as the, um, Killers of the Flower Moon debate, which is that for some people, this is just too long."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:03:00 · Tim Simons (0.45)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Irishman · Criterion route · Hope Killers gets a Criterion partnership like The Irishman did; Apple films otherwise have no physical release. · "At some point there will be like a criterion partnership like they did with the Irishman."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:14:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] The Velvet Underground ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · Apple physical · Velvet Underground is the one Apple movie with a physical release (Criterion). · "Actually, that's the one Apple movie that has a physical release."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:16:02 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] The Killer ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · promo absence · Because actors weren't doing press during the strike, audiences were thinking about Marty rather than DiCaprio appearances. · "we didn't get hit with like 10 Leonardo DiCaprio TV and podcast appearances before Killers of the Flower Moon."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:02:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Killer ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · possible last film · Both give the feeling they could be a last movie, a fitting conclusion. · "I had the same feeling at the end of this movie, though, where I was like, this kind of could just be a last movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:24:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Taxi Driver · dim protagonist · Ernest joins Scorsese's lineage of dim men wreaking havoc: Jake LaMotta, Travis Bickle, Henry Hill. · "You could say this is true of Jake Lamata. You could say this is true of Travis Bickle. You could say this is true of Henry Hill."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:24:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Raging Bull · dim protagonist · Jake LaMotta cited as an earlier dim Scorsese protagonist. · "You could say this is true of Jake Lamata."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:27:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · filmmaker in dialogue · The film is in dialogue with what its artists did before (Goodfellas, Wolf, every De Niro character). · "this movie is in dialogue with what all of its artists and filmmakers have done before."
[pairs] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Irishman · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Goodfellas · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Killer · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Oppenheimer · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Silence · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:01:56 · Tim Simons (0.55)] Killers of the Flower Moon · fun · Rewatching on Apple TV the speaker found himself watching a car detailing reel mid-film, the case for putting in a disc. · "I had somehow started watching a car detailing Instagram reel during killers of the flower moon."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:20:53 · Tim Simons (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon · fun · Underappreciated DiCaprio performance, plays smooth while pretending not to know about the murders. · "I think it's an underappreciated performance in Killers of the Flower Moon."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:02:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon · fun · They saw it twice, the second time together at 2:30 p.m. at a local AMC the day before recording; Sean calls it a masterpiece but jokes he needed seven hours to get there. · "I don't know whether the joke is on the movie or me that I had to see it twice to get to that, um, point"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:07:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon · fun · At 3:26 on 3,800 screens it may be the longest widely released movie of the century, and a live check of Gettysburg (4:21) gets no theatrical box office listing. · "I am live Googling Gettysburg, the movie, the 1993 film."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:26:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon · fun · Early rewrite lore: DiCaprio was to play FBI investigator Tom White in the procedural version, then pushed Scorsese to rewrite and took Ernest instead. · "Leo was originally slated to play FBI investigator Tom White in the more procedural version of the film, and he went to Scorsese and said, I think there's something missing here"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:32:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon · fun · The Lily Gladstone and DiCaprio dining-room promo still that became a meme for years turns out to be one of the movie's two or three most important scenes, and plays differently in motion. · "It is also like one of the 2 or 3 most important scenes in the movie."
[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 Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length. · "I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:20:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Fight Club · programming · Both are very funny first-person-narrated films about sociopaths who rationalize brutal violence as a personal mission. · "This movie would make a neat pairing with Fight Club. Two very funny films about sociopaths whose inner monologues rationalize brutal violence as expressions of a personal mission."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:23:57 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · programming · Koppelman's double-feature picks are Wolf of Wall Street or Sweet Smell of Success. · "Either wolf of Wall Street or sweet smell of success."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:18:40 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Oppenheimer ↔ The DUFF · theme · Pop culture now runs on visual memes: Cillian Murphy looking down in Oppenheimer, the Duff quarterback. · "Because now it's like a screenshot of Killian Murphy from Oppenheimer after like the what have I done?"
[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 Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:26:39 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] Chris Ryan ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Pick 1 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Easy first pick; one of his favorite movies ever made. · "one of my favorite movies ever made, Martin Scorsese's uh, epic, darkly comic look at the rise and fall of the American mob"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:16:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killer ↔ Steven Soderbergh · programming · A friend of the podcast says it is Fincher and Soderbergh land: a stripped-down genre exercise. · "it's Fincher and Sodaberg land."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:25:01 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Boiler Room ⇒ The Wolf of Wall Street (the host's read) · lineage · Koppelman says Boiler Room informed Wolf, being the fictional version of Jordan Belfort's story. · "Boiler Room really informed Wolf of Wall Street because Boiler Room was the fictional version of Jordan's story"
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:23:13 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Hoita ↔ Oppenheimer · craft · A speaker relays that on Oppenheimer, per Downey, the actors had no marks and the camera side and Nolan followed their movements. · "Downey makes it sound like they could just like walk into a room and do all sorts of things and it was like Hoita and Nolan were like, we'll follow you."
[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"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:17:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · It is the closest Fincher has come to a pure thriller since Gone Girl, maybe Dragon Tattoo. · "he hasn't made a movie quite like this, I guess, since Gone Girl, but even, I mean, you could maybe even going back further to Dragon Tattoo is maybe a little closer to this kind of a pure thriller."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:16:54 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ⇒ One Battle After Another (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese influenced PTA, and the uncomfortable-laughter humor of Wolf is very PTA. · "Scorsese is a huge influence on all filmmakers, including PTA, and there is a, like, a really screwed up level to the humor in this movie that is that is very PTA as well"
[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."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.40)] Goodfellas ⇒ My Blue Heaven (the host's read) · lineage · My Blue Heaven is blown out by Goodfellas as it is the same movie, like a sequel. · "It got kind of blown out of the water by Goodfellas because it's the same movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:20:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Rear Window ⇒ The Killer (the host's read) · lineage · The Paris hit sequence is a clear homage built on watching rooms across the street. · "it is a kind of rear window monkey. You know, it is like an attempt to recreate the across the street path, vision of what is happening in rooms in another building, and clear homage to that film."
[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] 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] Tim Simons · latest sketch, Blank Check · Fearless · Adores Bradley Whitford, Jeff Bridges, and unbridled positivity about moviegoing. Lover of old movies he has not seen yet. Can be contrarian ('movie MAGA mode') about near-consensus films and U2. Moved by performance and craft more than plot. · stances: Fearless is uniformly excellent, the first 30 and last 20 minutes transcendent; Jeff Bridges is peak, subtle and singular; the Fearless ending locks all puzzle pieces; nitpicks consensus classics
[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 Killers of the Flower Moon (2023); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) 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.