What the corpus says about The Zone of Interest (2023)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Zone of Interest (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 The Zone of Interest (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 · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:28:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Zone of Interest ↔ Poor Things · lineage · Five adapted-screenplay nominees are interesting recontextualizations of their sources, and Zone of Interest is the outside contender that is also one. · "The one on the outside, I think, is also a best picture contender that is also a recontextualization, which is the zone of interest."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:29:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.65)] May December ↔ The Zone of Interest · industry · Argues May December is widely seen on Netflix, more than Zone, Anatomy or Past Lives. · "Main December is way more widely seen, in my opinion, than the zone of interest."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:35:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] The Zone of Interest ↔ Cold War · industry · Zone could win International Feature and director without Best Picture, as Cold War did. · "And it won't, because Cold War did not get a best picture combination."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:35:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Zone of Interest ↔ Another Round · industry · Another Round got a screenplay nomination but not Best Picture. · "We saw this with another round where got a screenplay nomination, but it didn't get in to best picture."
[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:05:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Zone of Interest ↔ Past Lives · unusual PGA nominees · The PGA, which usually goes mainstream, nominated these two smaller art house movies among its ten. · "It's unusual that films like the zone of interest and past lives that are smaller, intimate, complicated art house movies, really, are nominated among the 10 films here."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:59:04 · unknown (0.40)] Cold War ↔ Shoplifters · programming · Recommends both Cold War and Shoplifters over the other foreign nominees. · "Sea Cold War, sea shoplifters."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:53:15 · Julianne Moore (0.85)] Safe ↔ May December · theme · Moore chose a detached voice for Carol White and a child-like lisp for Gracie, each reflecting the character's self-story. · "with Carol White, that my decision was based on the fact that this is a woman who was not attached to her own body"
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 2:19:26 · Julianne Moore (0.70)] Julianne Moore ↔ Past Lives · programming · Moore names Past Lives as the last great thing she saw, calling it like a poem. · "Past lives. What a beautiful movie."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 2:19:43 · Todd Haynes (0.65)] Todd Haynes ↔ Poor Things · programming · Haynes recently saw Poor Things and loved it, singling out Mark Ruffalo. · "I just saw poor things recently and man, I loved it."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 2:00:37 · Todd Haynes (0.80)] April ↔ May December · craft · Haynes recalls a Q and A with April, May December's costume designer, who developed color and clothing choices with Julianne Moore. · "I had a great, uh, Q and A kit with April the other day, who was our coffee designer on, on, on May, December"
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:41:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Dogtooth ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · lineage · Both are about who gets to dictate the rules; Poor Things is described as a sequel to Dogtooth's fathers-and-language themes. · "It's like the sequel to that movie in some ways because the Godwin character"
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:14:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Bride of Frankenstein ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says the Frankenstein novel and the first two Frankenstein movies are major influences on Poor Things. · "the Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein are, like, huge influences on this movie."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:18:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Alasdair Gray ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · lineage · The film is based on the Scottish author's novel, from which Lanthimos took liberties. · "this is actually based on a novel by Alice Dare Gray, the Scottish author."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:33:58 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Poor Things ↔ Barbie · theme · Both arrived as feminist coming-of-age stories about a created girl learning about the world, six weeks apart. · "it was about 6 weeks after the Barbie wave and there are some really obvious comparisons to be made here."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:37:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Poor Things ↔ Fair Play · theme · The sex-in-American-movies topic was discussed in the Fair Play episode. · "We talked about it in the Fairplay episode last year."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:40:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Poor Things ↔ The Island of Dr. Moreau · theme · Godwin, fusing creatures on his island, is likened to a Dr. Moreau figure. · "he's kind of an, uh, an island of Dr. Moreau kind of figure"
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:20:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] The Killing of a Sacred Deer ↔ Poor Things · theme · Sacred Deer is framed as Lanthimos's horror movie, in a run of one-per-genre films ending with the monster movie. · "that's also his horror movie."
[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
[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 The Zone of Interest (2023); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Zone of Interest (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.