What the corpus says about Cronos (1992)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Cronos (1992) 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 Cronos (1992) 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 · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 0:12:01 · Patton Oswalt (0.85)] Nightmare Alley ↔ Cronos · same filmmaker, tonal kin · Cronos is the only earlier Del Toro film where there is no way out. · "this is really the 1st Del Toro, except maybe Kronos, where he started where there is no way out."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:33:33 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Ron Perlman ↔ Cronos · career · Perlman was put in the foreign films, Cronos and City of Lost Children, before coming back. · "he's in Kronos."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 0:27:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Nightmare Alley ↔ A Face in the Crowd · programming · Pairing them would nail the American sickness of the con man and his admirers. · "this movie and a face in the crowd would be an amazing double feature for nailing exactly what's wrong."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 0:03:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.95)] Nightmare Alley ⇒ Nightmare Alley (the host's read) · lineage · The 1947 film is a neutered version given 1940s moviemaking; the new one is bigger, bolder and better. · "It's an interesting movie, a neutered version of the story, I would say, given the circumstances of movie making back in the 40s."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 0:38:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Sorcerer ↔ Nightmare Alley · lineage · Both are remakes of films from earlier decades. · "Also a remake of a film from the 40s and 50s."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 0:39:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Ron Perlman ⇒ Nightmare Alley (the host's read) · lineage · Perlman reportedly put the Gresham book in Del Toro's hands in the mid 90s, so he is why the film exists. · "he's the person, I believe, who, uh, who put the book in Del Toro's hands, I think in the mid 90s."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 0:57:21 · Patton Oswalt (0.85)] Bad Day at Black Rock ↔ Nightmare Alley · theme · A technicolor noir whose small-town resentment of a veteran is read as very Trump-like, echoing the Trump-as-carnival reading of the new film. · "I mean, that is very much a Trump or movie, these, um, people that, uh, are resenting the, the Japanese guy"
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Patton Oswalt · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · Watches The Killing repeatedly, loves noir and character actors, Timothy Carey stories, Matthau in Pelham 123, Albert Brooks and Adam Sandler's dramatic work, Shudder and the Corman-style ecosystem. Hates the method and the auteur theory. · stances: The method and the auteur theory both get in the way of the work; The Killing's characters are small-time crooks who aren't smart enough; Titles do real work, the killing is a double meaning; Genre outsiders like Shudder directors will be the next filmmakers
[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 Cronos (1992); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Cronos (1992) 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.