What the corpus says about Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) 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 Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) 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 · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:25:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Brittany Runs a Marathon ↔ Carnal Knowledge · craft · Carnal Knowledge starts one way and ends another, which is what Sean meant about the Nichols shift; it is also shot theatrically. · "Wait, it starts one way and it ends another way. That is fantastic."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:10:17 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90)] Brittany Runs a Marathon ↔ 22 Jump Street · people · Walking out of 22 Jump Street he wondered if Jillian Bell might someday be Brittany. · "I remember walking out of 22 Jump Street, just sort of like flippantly thinking, I wonder if that'll be Britney someday."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:21:29 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90)] The Big Sick ⇒ Brittany Runs a Marathon (the maker said so: Colaizzo on why he chose Amazon) · industry · Colaizzo picked Amazon because The Big Sick had both a theatrical life and home accessibility. · "I wanted to be an Amazon. The reason I wanted to be at Amazon was because the big sick, because the way the big sick was handled."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:07:21 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90)] Brittany Runs a Marathon ↔ Brittany Runs a Marathon · tonal subversion · The trailer promises a zippy comedy but the film slowly exposes deeper levels, taking a comedy seriously like a drama. · "you take something you think you understand, which is, uh, which has promised to be fun and funny and engaging and enjoyable and unthreatening, and you slowly and and with detail and precision expose deeper levels as it goes on."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:01:08 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90)] Mike Nichols ⇒ Brittany Runs a Marathon (the maker said so: on the show, Colaizzo describing his own influences) · lineage · Colaizzo studied theater-to-film directors Nichols, Kazan, May and Mamet. · "Well, like Mike Nichols did that, Ellie? Kazan, um, Elaine May, you know, works as a director, as a writer, and, and, you know, I could feel that David Mammoth, same thing."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:09:42 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90)] Brittany Runs a Marathon ↔ Thornton Wilder · theme · He cites a Wilder line, film is the story of them and theater the story of us, and tries to do the story of us on film. · "film is the story of them and theater is the story of us."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:03:09 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90)] Brittany Runs a Marathon ↔ Tobey Maguire · people · Tobey Maguire and Matt Plouffe's company bought the script off the log line and developed it for 2.5 years. · "it was really Toby McGuire and Matt Pluffet material."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:12:07 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90)] Brittany Runs a Marathon ↔ Jillian Bell · people · Jillian Bell lost the exact weight the character loses, 29 pounds before and 11 during filming. · "So she lost £29 while we were before we started filming in the last £11 while we were filming."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:15:27 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90)] Brittany Runs a Marathon ↔ Michaela Watkins · people · Watkins plays Catherine, the calm, motherly woman upstairs, a subtle performance. · "Michaela Watkins plays Catherine, the woman upstairs, uh, who Britney thinks has everything going for her."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:22:14 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90)] Brittany Runs a Marathon ↔ Amazon · industry · Amazon won the Sundance bidding by bringing 14 people to the meeting, one for each million. · "They brought 14 people into the meeting and one for each million."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:08:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Brittany Runs a Marathon ↔ Mike Nichols · tonal shift · Sean sees a Nichols-like pattern of starting one way and shifting into a different movie. · "I feel like a lot of his movies start one way with a certain tonality and then they make a shift and then all of a sudden you're in a different movie"
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:18:35 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90)] Brittany Runs a Marathon ↔ John Cooper · premiere · Sundance head John Cooper introduced the premiere, where the room was laughing so loud audio had to be turned up. · "I knew it was going well in the 1st 3 minutes because we had to turn up the audio because people were laughing so loudly they couldn't hear the lines."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:56:55 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90)] Brittany Runs a Marathon · fun · Colaizzo had the idea for the film around 2011 while living with his best friend, who went on her first run and inspired the outline; her life began to mimic the outline. · "And then I told her some things that happened in the movie and her life started to mimic the outline."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:58:03 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90)] Brittany Runs a Marathon · fun · Colaizzo and his roommate stole a couch from a Broadway show after it closed, where the film's pipe dream was written. · "we stole a couch from a Broadway show after it closed and that was our couch."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:01:52 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90)] Brittany Runs a Marathon · fun · Colaizzo wrote every element as character, with pages on the character of the lighting, camera movements and costume design. · "I made pages on the character of the lighting, the character of the camera movements, uh, the costume design"
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:13:54 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90)] Brittany Runs a Marathon · fun · Colaizzo says on set he is sent to the extras table at craft services every time, so he goes and has those eggs. · "they always say to me, extras eat over there."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:17:44 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90)] Brittany Runs a Marathon · fun · At the Sundance premiere Colaizzo secretly opened doors to cool the theater because cold rooms make people laugh more. · "I was just like secretly opening all of these doors to the outside to make sure that cold air would pour into this theater."
[speaker] Paul Downs Colaizzo · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · A playwright who came late to movies and became a convert through love and vulnerability; he prizes character, theater structure and Mike Nichols-style tonal shifts. Is a sucker for the idea of the story of us rather than them, and for theatrical, subtext-rich filmmaking such as Carnal Knowledge. Dislikes flattened, broadly offensive treatments of his protagonist. · stances: Writing and directing are separate jobs; A comedy can quietly turn into a drama; Wanted Amazon for The Big Sick-style theatrical and home life
[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)

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 Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) 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.

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