What the corpus says about Phantom Thread (2017)

What was said about it (7)

1. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:14:05 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Phantom Thread ↔ Little Miss Sunshine · theme · Dave Toshki (as transcribed) Animal Crackers Award for niche tastes: Reynolds Woodcock's poisoned mushrooms, the Little Miss Sunshine character, Neil McCauley in Heat. · "Reynolds Woodcock's fondness for poisoned mushrooms and Phantom Thread."
2. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:19:08 · Adam Nayman (0.80)] Tár ↔ Phantom Thread · theme · Adam compares Tar to Phantom Thread as an unexpected discourse and meme movie driven by a naked, embarrassing performance. · "It is a meme monster movie. In a way that reminds me, in a way that reminds me actually more than anything, of something like Phantom Thread"
3. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:19:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Tár ↔ Phantom Thread · theme · Sean agrees with Phantom Thread as a perfect comparison, since both are secretly comedies. · "Phantom Thread is a perfect comparison, Adam, because it's also that's also a crypto comedy"
4. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:34:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Nope ↔ Phantom Thread · career · Sean wonders if Peele will go the Phantom Thread route, the Visit route, or keep making Inception-scale films, and hopes for a Spielbergian approach. · "in 10 or 15 years whether or not Jordan Peele is making his phantom thread."
5. [The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:57:32 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] Hard Eight (Sydney) ↔ Phantom Thread · career · Phantom Thread is the hyper-disciplined piece PTA delivered after going very far afield. · "the next time he made just a hyper discipline piece was Phantom Thread"
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 1:06:03 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Phantom Thread (the host's read) · lesson learned · The speaker feels PTA took lessons from visiting the Kubrick set about small crews. · "Like, it feels like PTA sort of learned some lessons from being on the set that took years to see Ben."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:32:27 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Phantom Thread · joke · Jen's bar-ordering is like a Phantom Thread order. · "She does like a fucking phantom thread order."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

1. [pairs] Phantom Thread ↔ Tár · said 2 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (25)

1. [The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:12:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ken Russell ⇒ Tár (the host's read) · lineage · Russell's melodramatic operatic composer biopics like Mahler are a Tar precursor. · "He made a lot of, um, uh, like melodramatic, stylish operatic recreations of composers lives, like Mahler."
2. [The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:28:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · The remake's wuxia/mystical style follows the wave of Chinese films that grew popular after Crouching Tiger and the Zhang Yimou films. · "they've gotten very big, kind of post, crouching tiger hidden dragon, and the Jang Yi-Mu films"
3. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:57:26 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Tom Cruise ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · programming · If Cruise would answer everything, the Rewatchables pick is Eyes Wide Shut. · "I would do eyes-wise shut."
4. [The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:54:07 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] David Mamet ⇒ Hard Eight (Sydney) (the maker said so: PTA talking about it) · lineage · PTA talks about Mamet's influence, but Brian says he threw it off more easily than Brian and his partner do. · "although PTA talks about Mammoth's influence"
5. [The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:12:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mahler ⇒ Tár (the host's read) · lineage · Ken Russell's composer-life films like Mahler are a precursor to Tar. · "It is kind of a tar precursor."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:23:14 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Westerns (genre) · lineage · Lee reviving an old genre like making a Western, but engineered for a worldwide audience. · "It was like if somebody made a Western, but it also was implicitly built to and engineered to appeal to a worldwide audience as much as it appealed to an American one."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:13:57 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · programming · These two Kubrick films feel warm to the speaker compared with the rest. · "But Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut are the 2 that feel like they sort of cut through to me on a deeper level, where I feel genuine warmth and affection for them."
8. [The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:58:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Hard Eight (Sydney) ↔ Jonathan Demme · lineage · The into-camera close-ups in the diner are Demme-like; it is like Scorsese and Demme together. · "It's like if Scorsese and Demi made something together in a lot of ways."
9. [The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:12:20 · Tim Simons (0.60)] Leonard Bernstein ⇒ Tár (the host's read) · lineage · Tim asks whether the hosts joked that Tar was about Bernstein conducting Mahler in the church; Sean answers that it was inspired by his work. · "Mad Tar must have been about Bernstein doing the Mahler in the church, right?"
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:24:55 · David Sims (0.40)] King Hu ⇒ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (the host's read) · lineage · CTHD plays in the milieu of King Hu and the wuxia classics, but with a more modern sensibility. · "this movie is playing in a, in a Milu that is inherent to like King Hu movies and Musha, like the classics"
11. [The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:24:49 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Babygirl (the host's read) · lineage · The stoned late-night bedroom lecture after the rave echoes Eyes Wide Shut. · "Nice callback to eyes wide shut and lecturing Tom Cruise in the bedroom while stoned out of their minds."
12. [The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:58:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Robert Altman ⇒ Hard Eight (Sydney) (the host's read) · lineage · If you talk about its influences you have to talk about Altman too. · "you got to talk about Altman, I think too"
13. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:16:11 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Tár ↔ Lincoln · theme · Chris contrasts Blanchett's level of performance with a Lincoln-style historically resonant part, as a box-office draw for older audiences. · "I guess it's not Lincoln where she's like doing this historically like sort of resonant part, but it's in that kind of level of performance"
14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:07:21 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Last Action Hero · lineage · Jen worshipping Shu Lien and living her dreamed-of story is very Last Action Hero. · "It's very last action hero."
15. [The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.85)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) (the host's read) · lineage · Donald Glover's character describes the party as a Spike-directed reboot of Eyes Wide Shut. · "this is like a spikely directed reboot of eyes wide shut"
16. [The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:54:19 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] Hard Eight (Sydney) ↔ California · craft · Brian says the film's voice is filtered through California, so it differs from Mamet. · "because it's filtered through California"
17. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:16:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Tár ↔ Stanley Kubrick · craft · Sean says Tar is perceived as having Kubrickian coldness, which makes it less inviting at the box office. · "it at least is perceived as having that Kubrickian coldness, which I think is not very inviting as a movie going experience."
18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:46:30 · David Ehrlich (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Brokeback Mountain · lineage · CTHD as the first of Lee's 'fuck mountain diptych' of transgressive sex movies, with Brokeback. · "This is the 1st of Angley's fuck mountain diptych."
19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:04 · unknown (0.30)] Kirk Douglas ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the maker said so) · lineage · Kirk Douglas claims he handed Kubrick the novella during their Paths of Glory or Spartacus fights. · "Kirk Douglas claims he gave it to him during one of their like shared therapy sessions"
20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:30:13 · David Ehrlich (0.45)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · Ang Lee's bottled-emotion movies; CTHD as Sense and Sensibility with a magic sword. · "This is one of his great bottled emotion movies, which is like a big running theme for people who don't know how to express those. Sensibility with a magic sword."
21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:21 · unknown (0.30)] Ruth Sobotka → Eyes Wide Shut · lineage · Others guess Kubrick's Austrian second wife may have given him the Austrian novel. · "Maybe she gave it to him."
22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:37:29 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · After 15 minutes the movie goes full Jane Austen. · "But like 15 minutes later, when the movie goes full, Jane Austen"
23. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:31 · unknown (0.30)] Arthur Schnitzler ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says the novel is very close to the film, so close that its plot beats are nearly one to one. · "And it is very similar to eyes wide shut."
24. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:42:52 · David Ehrlich (0.55)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Seen as a coming-of-age story where Jen is the surrogate daughter holding the adults together and apart. · "I never really looked at it through this lens until I was just, you know, on ambient and trying to apply ladybird quotes to everything"
25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:37:01 · unknown (0.30)] Dream Story (Traumnovelle, the Schnitzler novella) ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read) · lineage · The speakers note the film's credit says inspired by, not adapted from, Schnitzler's novella. · "It's not adapted from Schnitzler."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

1. [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
2. [speaker] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
3. [speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
4. [speaker] Brian Koppelman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Loves craft: Chandor's economy, not speaking down, and actors like Tucci and Hoffman. Sucker for heightened workplace dialogue and one-night structures. · stances: Margin Call is among the 10 best of 15 years; Hanks does not play sleaze; Conflict structure over a night is the point
5. [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

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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Phantom Thread (2017) 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 Phantom Thread (2017) 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 · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:14:05 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Phantom Thread ↔ Little Miss Sunshine · theme · Dave Toshki (as transcribed) Animal Crackers Award for niche tastes: Reynolds Woodcock's poisoned mushrooms, the Little Miss Sunshine character, Neil McCauley in Heat. · "Reynolds Woodcock's fondness for poisoned mushrooms and Phantom Thread."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:19:08 · Adam Nayman (0.80)] Tár ↔ Phantom Thread · theme · Adam compares Tar to Phantom Thread as an unexpected discourse and meme movie driven by a naked, embarrassing performance. · "It is a meme monster movie. In a way that reminds me, in a way that reminds me actually more than anything, of something like Phantom Thread"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:19:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Tár ↔ Phantom Thread · theme · Sean agrees with Phantom Thread as a perfect comparison, since both are secretly comedies. · "Phantom Thread is a perfect comparison, Adam, because it's also that's also a crypto comedy"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:34:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Nope ↔ Phantom Thread · career · Sean wonders if Peele will go the Phantom Thread route, the Visit route, or keep making Inception-scale films, and hopes for a Spielbergian approach. · "in 10 or 15 years whether or not Jordan Peele is making his phantom thread."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:57:32 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] Hard Eight (Sydney) ↔ Phantom Thread · career · Phantom Thread is the hyper-disciplined piece PTA delivered after going very far afield. · "the next time he made just a hyper discipline piece was Phantom Thread"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 1:06:03 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Phantom Thread (the host's read) · lesson learned · The speaker feels PTA took lessons from visiting the Kubrick set about small crews. · "Like, it feels like PTA sort of learned some lessons from being on the set that took years to see Ben."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:32:27 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Phantom Thread · joke · Jen's bar-ordering is like a Phantom Thread order. · "She does like a fucking phantom thread order."
[pairs] Phantom Thread ↔ Tár · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:12:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ken Russell ⇒ Tár (the host's read) · lineage · Russell's melodramatic operatic composer biopics like Mahler are a Tar precursor. · "He made a lot of, um, uh, like melodramatic, stylish operatic recreations of composers lives, like Mahler."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:28:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · The remake's wuxia/mystical style follows the wave of Chinese films that grew popular after Crouching Tiger and the Zhang Yimou films. · "they've gotten very big, kind of post, crouching tiger hidden dragon, and the Jang Yi-Mu films"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:57:26 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Tom Cruise ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · programming · If Cruise would answer everything, the Rewatchables pick is Eyes Wide Shut. · "I would do eyes-wise shut."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:54:07 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] David Mamet ⇒ Hard Eight (Sydney) (the maker said so: PTA talking about it) · lineage · PTA talks about Mamet's influence, but Brian says he threw it off more easily than Brian and his partner do. · "although PTA talks about Mammoth's influence"
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:12:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mahler ⇒ Tár (the host's read) · lineage · Ken Russell's composer-life films like Mahler are a precursor to Tar. · "It is kind of a tar precursor."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:23:14 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Westerns (genre) · lineage · Lee reviving an old genre like making a Western, but engineered for a worldwide audience. · "It was like if somebody made a Western, but it also was implicitly built to and engineered to appeal to a worldwide audience as much as it appealed to an American one."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:13:57 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · programming · These two Kubrick films feel warm to the speaker compared with the rest. · "But Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut are the 2 that feel like they sort of cut through to me on a deeper level, where I feel genuine warmth and affection for them."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:58:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Hard Eight (Sydney) ↔ Jonathan Demme · lineage · The into-camera close-ups in the diner are Demme-like; it is like Scorsese and Demme together. · "It's like if Scorsese and Demi made something together in a lot of ways."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:12:20 · Tim Simons (0.60)] Leonard Bernstein ⇒ Tár (the host's read) · lineage · Tim asks whether the hosts joked that Tar was about Bernstein conducting Mahler in the church; Sean answers that it was inspired by his work. · "Mad Tar must have been about Bernstein doing the Mahler in the church, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:24:55 · David Sims (0.40)] King Hu ⇒ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (the host's read) · lineage · CTHD plays in the milieu of King Hu and the wuxia classics, but with a more modern sensibility. · "this movie is playing in a, in a Milu that is inherent to like King Hu movies and Musha, like the classics"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:24:49 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Babygirl (the host's read) · lineage · The stoned late-night bedroom lecture after the rave echoes Eyes Wide Shut. · "Nice callback to eyes wide shut and lecturing Tom Cruise in the bedroom while stoned out of their minds."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:58:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Robert Altman ⇒ Hard Eight (Sydney) (the host's read) · lineage · If you talk about its influences you have to talk about Altman too. · "you got to talk about Altman, I think too"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:16:11 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Tár ↔ Lincoln · theme · Chris contrasts Blanchett's level of performance with a Lincoln-style historically resonant part, as a box-office draw for older audiences. · "I guess it's not Lincoln where she's like doing this historically like sort of resonant part, but it's in that kind of level of performance"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:07:21 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Last Action Hero · lineage · Jen worshipping Shu Lien and living her dreamed-of story is very Last Action Hero. · "It's very last action hero."
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.85)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) (the host's read) · lineage · Donald Glover's character describes the party as a Spike-directed reboot of Eyes Wide Shut. · "this is like a spikely directed reboot of eyes wide shut"
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:54:19 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] Hard Eight (Sydney) ↔ California · craft · Brian says the film's voice is filtered through California, so it differs from Mamet. · "because it's filtered through California"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:16:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Tár ↔ Stanley Kubrick · craft · Sean says Tar is perceived as having Kubrickian coldness, which makes it less inviting at the box office. · "it at least is perceived as having that Kubrickian coldness, which I think is not very inviting as a movie going experience."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:46:30 · David Ehrlich (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Brokeback Mountain · lineage · CTHD as the first of Lee's 'fuck mountain diptych' of transgressive sex movies, with Brokeback. · "This is the 1st of Angley's fuck mountain diptych."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:04 · unknown (0.30)] Kirk Douglas ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the maker said so) · lineage · Kirk Douglas claims he handed Kubrick the novella during their Paths of Glory or Spartacus fights. · "Kirk Douglas claims he gave it to him during one of their like shared therapy sessions"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:30:13 · David Ehrlich (0.45)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · Ang Lee's bottled-emotion movies; CTHD as Sense and Sensibility with a magic sword. · "This is one of his great bottled emotion movies, which is like a big running theme for people who don't know how to express those. Sensibility with a magic sword."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:21 · unknown (0.30)] Ruth Sobotka → Eyes Wide Shut · lineage · Others guess Kubrick's Austrian second wife may have given him the Austrian novel. · "Maybe she gave it to him."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:37:29 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · After 15 minutes the movie goes full Jane Austen. · "But like 15 minutes later, when the movie goes full, Jane Austen"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:31 · unknown (0.30)] Arthur Schnitzler ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says the novel is very close to the film, so close that its plot beats are nearly one to one. · "And it is very similar to eyes wide shut."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:42:52 · David Ehrlich (0.55)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Seen as a coming-of-age story where Jen is the surrogate daughter holding the adults together and apart. · "I never really looked at it through this lens until I was just, you know, on ambient and trying to apply ladybird quotes to everything"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:37:01 · unknown (0.30)] Dream Story (Traumnovelle, the Schnitzler novella) ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read) · lineage · The speakers note the film's credit says inspired by, not adapted from, Schnitzler's novella. · "It's not adapted from Schnitzler."
[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] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Brian Koppelman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Loves craft: Chandor's economy, not speaking down, and actors like Tucci and Hoffman. Sucker for heightened workplace dialogue and one-night structures. · stances: Margin Call is among the 10 best of 15 years; Hanks does not play sleaze; Conflict structure over a night is the point
[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
[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 Phantom Thread (2017); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Phantom Thread (2017) 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.