What the corpus says about Fear and Desire (1953)

What was said about it (14)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:43:13 · unknown (0.30)] Fear and Desire ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · theme · The unnamed enemy is like Top Gun Maverick's war without a country. · "it almost feels like a Top Gun Maverick thing of just, like, just let me tell a story about war without, like, being anything."
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:49:04 · unknown (0.30)] Fear and Desire ↔ La Grande Illusion · theme · Cutting to the generals feels like Grand Illusion. · "But it almost feels like a grand illusion thing where you like, you then cut to the office and you stay in their perspective for a while, you know?"
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:20:29 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killing ↔ Fear and Desire · craft · The Killing's documentary feel recalls Fear and Desire and Kubrick's earlier work. · "Fear and desire feels very documentary-esque."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:02:18 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Fear and Desire ↔ The Twilight Zone · craft · The opening narration feels like the Twilight Zone. · "that intro, narration, despite not making perfect sense, feels very Twilight Zone"
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 1:03:43 · unknown (0.30)] Fear and Desire ↔ Killer's Kiss · contrast · Killer's Kiss was conceived as pure action on a mechanical gangster plot, the opposite of the first film. · "This one was nothing but action sequences strung together on a mechanically constructed gangster plot."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:29:41 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Fear and Desire ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · career · An artist can make Fear and Desire and later make 2001. · "So I just think as like a filmmaker. It's just invaluable to be like, you can make fear and desire."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:37:27 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Fear and Desire ↔ Killer's Kiss · people · Frank Silvera is in both films. · "The cast, Frank Silvera, who's also in Killer's Kiss."
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:27:56 · unknown (0.30)] Fear and Desire ↔ Killer's Kiss · industry · Both were funded by pharmacists and druggists. · "It's funny. Both of these films you read that all the money came from like fucking pharmacies and drugstores."
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:10:16 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Fear and Desire ↔ The Killing · first real film · Kubrick disowned Fear and Desire and treated Killer's Kiss as a warm-up, so The Killing is the first film he respects. · "this is probably the 1st movie, Kubrick respects in his filmography"
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:39:36 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Fear and Desire ↔ Following · rough first film · Following is the speaker's good example of a rough, interesting debut like this one. · "Like, well, I think following is a good version of this."
11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:39:57 · David Sims (0.40)] Fear and Desire ↔ Story of a Three Day Pass · rough first film · A first film scraped together outside the system, with feeling. · "story of a 3 day pass, the Melvin Van Peebles movie, which was similarly a 1st film that he kind of scraped together outside of the system."
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 1:05:27 · unknown (0.30)] Fear and Desire ↔ Killer's Kiss · shared technique · Both were shot silent and dubbed afterward. · "Oh, right, he does the same fucking thing again, where they shoot it without sound and dub over every line dialogue."
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:23:34 · David Sims (0.50)] Stanley Kubrick ↔ Fear and Desire · lineage · Kubrick's four explicit war movies are Strangelove, Fear and Desire, Full Metal Jacket and Paths of Glory. · "This strange love, fear and desire, and full metal jacket."
14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:44:22 · unknown (0.30)] Fear and Desire ↔ Stanley Kubrick · disowned · Kubrick was embarrassed by the film; the host reads his quote. · "It's not a film I remember with any pride, he says."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

1. [pairs] Fear and Desire ↔ Killer's Kiss · said 4 times in 1 episode
2. [pairs] Fear and Desire ↔ The Killing · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:01:36 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Fear and Desire · fun · The streaming copies are public-domain colorized versions that look like cheap AI, with color that will not stay on faces. · "It looks like it was done by some very rudimentary $5 AI, but it's this thing where the color like can't stick to their faces."
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:03:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Fear and Desire · fun · The poster sells a 'half animal girl' with an illustration of a kissed neck, making the war movie look supernatural. · "An illustration of, uh, Paul Mizurski kissing her neck that makes it look consensual, and says, fear and desire, trapped for desperate man, and a strange half animal girl."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:27:01 · unknown (0.30)] Fear and Desire · fun · Making the film was Kubrick's film school: he saw a thousand movies, then taught himself by doing. · "then made his 1st film Fear and Desire, which was essentially making a film as film school."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:27:48 · unknown (0.30)] Fear and Desire · fun · Both first features were funded by relatives and acquaintances who ran pharmacies. · "The 1st 2 movies, he essentially gets financed by parents, friends, and relatives who run pharmacies."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:35:06 · unknown (0.30)] Fear and Desire · fun · Shooting silent and dubbing later tripled the budget; shooting cost $9,000, post $30,000. · "I fucking got to go in and add all the sound. And rerecord all the dialogue and then it like tripled his budget."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:44:22 · unknown (0.30)] Fear and Desire · fun · Kubrick on his own film, as read from the dossier. · "It's not a film I remember with any pride, he says."

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

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:41:40 · unknown (0.40)] Stanley Kubrick ↔ Killer's Kiss · lineage · Early films like Killer's Kiss and Fear and Desire are seen as the developmental stage. · "the sort of fear and desire, killer's kiss, the killing run feels like, well, that's the developmental."
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:47:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Killing ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the maker said so: a Tarantino quote the host reads) · lineage · Tarantino said Reservoir Dogs was his version of Kubrick's heist film, without meaning it as a ripoff. · "but I did think of it as my killing, my take on that kind of heist movie."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:54:01 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) · programming · Film and Clarke's novel were developed side by side, each holding the other hostage. · "But the 2 of them were being done in tandem."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:49:25 · unknown (0.35)] Eraserhead ↔ Following · craft · Nolan's debut was made like Eraserhead, piecemeal with day-job actors, and Lynch became a guy for people with limited resources. · "made his film in a similar way, and I don't know if he's ever cited Lynch being the inspiration"
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:30:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Day of the Fight ⇒ Killer's Kiss (the host's read) · lineage · The boxer short seems to the speaker like an inspiration for Killer's Kiss. · "Uh, it seems like a bit of, you know, an inspiration for killer's kiss, right?"
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:41:56 · unknown (0.40)] Stanley Kubrick ↔ The Killing · lineage · The Killing is where Kubrick first has a real grasp of the language; Paths of Glory sits after it. · "The killing is when he finally has sort of like a real grasp on the language."
7. [Blank Check · Dune · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Silent Running (the host's read) · lineage · 2001 spawned heady, serious, clean sci-fi like Silent Running. · "2001 leads to a spat of things like silent running, you know, these movies that are like very heady."
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:05:46 · David Sims (0.40)] Clean Break (novel) ⇒ The Killing (the host's read) · lineage · The film is the screen version of the novel Clean Break. · "Clean Break was the name of the book."
9. [Blank Check · Dune · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to. · "Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel."
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 1:28:00 · David Sims (0.35)] The Killing ⇒ The Dark Knight (the host's read) · lineage · The clown mask is said to look basically like the Joker mask Nolan pays homage to in The Dark Knight. · "Nolan obviously pays homage to in the Dark Knight"
11. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout. · "And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?"
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:41:29 · unknown (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ The Killing · craft · The overcomplicated hard-boiled dialogue of the rewrite is the kind that rules in The Killing. · "that's like the kind of dialogue that like rules in the killing."
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 2:48:04 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010 (the host's read) · lineage · Peter Hyams made a film sequel to 2001, following the books. · "But, like, he rolled up his sleeves and he was like, 2001?"
14. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:19:39 · David Sims (0.40)] The Killing ↔ Day of the Fight · craft · The racetrack footage reminds the speaker of Day of the Fight and Kubrick's Look magazine work. · "It reminds me of, you know, a lot of Kubrick stuff like Day of the Fight"
15. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:11:43 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film has a sequel, and Clarke wrote three sequel novels. · "Obviously, the sequel exists."
16. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:42:56 · Jordan Hoffman (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2069: A Sex Odyssey (the host's read) · lineage · The porn parody is said to be very influenced by 2001. · "actually is actually very influenced by this film."
17. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:52:22 · unknown (0.30)] The Sentinel (short story) ⇒ 2001: A Space Odyssey (the host's read) · lineage · The film and companion novel drafted off Clarke's short story The Sentinel, which had the germ of the monolith idea. · "So it's going off drafting off of the Sentinel."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

1. [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
2. [speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
3. [speaker] Alex Ross Perry · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · Loves Fight Club as a formative film he saw at the AMC Marple on opening night and again on Saturday, and says it still ranks among his heart picks despite finding it juvenile now. Respects a movie that looks good. Cannot stand the Fincher perfectionist myth, and thinks his push for digital had a bad influence. A sucker for Zodiac, which he ranks first. · stances: Fight Club is a time capsule: deeply embarrassing to admire but loved spiritually; Fincher's perfectionist myth and digital proselytizing are overrated; The second half and Project Mayhem say nothing new; Zodiac is the best Fincher

The shows' running bits (2)

1. [bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
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 Fear and Desire (1953) 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 Fear and Desire (1953) 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.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:43:13 · unknown (0.30)] Fear and Desire ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · theme · The unnamed enemy is like Top Gun Maverick's war without a country. · "it almost feels like a Top Gun Maverick thing of just, like, just let me tell a story about war without, like, being anything."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:49:04 · unknown (0.30)] Fear and Desire ↔ La Grande Illusion · theme · Cutting to the generals feels like Grand Illusion. · "But it almost feels like a grand illusion thing where you like, you then cut to the office and you stay in their perspective for a while, you know?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:20:29 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killing ↔ Fear and Desire · craft · The Killing's documentary feel recalls Fear and Desire and Kubrick's earlier work. · "Fear and desire feels very documentary-esque."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:02:18 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Fear and Desire ↔ The Twilight Zone · craft · The opening narration feels like the Twilight Zone. · "that intro, narration, despite not making perfect sense, feels very Twilight Zone"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 1:03:43 · unknown (0.30)] Fear and Desire ↔ Killer's Kiss · contrast · Killer's Kiss was conceived as pure action on a mechanical gangster plot, the opposite of the first film. · "This one was nothing but action sequences strung together on a mechanically constructed gangster plot."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:29:41 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Fear and Desire ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · career · An artist can make Fear and Desire and later make 2001. · "So I just think as like a filmmaker. It's just invaluable to be like, you can make fear and desire."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:37:27 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Fear and Desire ↔ Killer's Kiss · people · Frank Silvera is in both films. · "The cast, Frank Silvera, who's also in Killer's Kiss."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:27:56 · unknown (0.30)] Fear and Desire ↔ Killer's Kiss · industry · Both were funded by pharmacists and druggists. · "It's funny. Both of these films you read that all the money came from like fucking pharmacies and drugstores."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:10:16 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Fear and Desire ↔ The Killing · first real film · Kubrick disowned Fear and Desire and treated Killer's Kiss as a warm-up, so The Killing is the first film he respects. · "this is probably the 1st movie, Kubrick respects in his filmography"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:39:36 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Fear and Desire ↔ Following · rough first film · Following is the speaker's good example of a rough, interesting debut like this one. · "Like, well, I think following is a good version of this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:39:57 · David Sims (0.40)] Fear and Desire ↔ Story of a Three Day Pass · rough first film · A first film scraped together outside the system, with feeling. · "story of a 3 day pass, the Melvin Van Peebles movie, which was similarly a 1st film that he kind of scraped together outside of the system."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 1:05:27 · unknown (0.30)] Fear and Desire ↔ Killer's Kiss · shared technique · Both were shot silent and dubbed afterward. · "Oh, right, he does the same fucking thing again, where they shoot it without sound and dub over every line dialogue."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:23:34 · David Sims (0.50)] Stanley Kubrick ↔ Fear and Desire · lineage · Kubrick's four explicit war movies are Strangelove, Fear and Desire, Full Metal Jacket and Paths of Glory. · "This strange love, fear and desire, and full metal jacket."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:44:22 · unknown (0.30)] Fear and Desire ↔ Stanley Kubrick · disowned · Kubrick was embarrassed by the film; the host reads his quote. · "It's not a film I remember with any pride, he says."
[pairs] Fear and Desire ↔ Killer's Kiss · said 4 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Fear and Desire ↔ The Killing · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:01:36 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Fear and Desire · fun · The streaming copies are public-domain colorized versions that look like cheap AI, with color that will not stay on faces. · "It looks like it was done by some very rudimentary $5 AI, but it's this thing where the color like can't stick to their faces."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:03:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Fear and Desire · fun · The poster sells a 'half animal girl' with an illustration of a kissed neck, making the war movie look supernatural. · "An illustration of, uh, Paul Mizurski kissing her neck that makes it look consensual, and says, fear and desire, trapped for desperate man, and a strange half animal girl."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:27:01 · unknown (0.30)] Fear and Desire · fun · Making the film was Kubrick's film school: he saw a thousand movies, then taught himself by doing. · "then made his 1st film Fear and Desire, which was essentially making a film as film school."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:27:48 · unknown (0.30)] Fear and Desire · fun · Both first features were funded by relatives and acquaintances who ran pharmacies. · "The 1st 2 movies, he essentially gets financed by parents, friends, and relatives who run pharmacies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:35:06 · unknown (0.30)] Fear and Desire · fun · Shooting silent and dubbing later tripled the budget; shooting cost $9,000, post $30,000. · "I fucking got to go in and add all the sound. And rerecord all the dialogue and then it like tripled his budget."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:44:22 · unknown (0.30)] Fear and Desire · fun · Kubrick on his own film, as read from the dossier. · "It's not a film I remember with any pride, he says."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:41:40 · unknown (0.40)] Stanley Kubrick ↔ Killer's Kiss · lineage · Early films like Killer's Kiss and Fear and Desire are seen as the developmental stage. · "the sort of fear and desire, killer's kiss, the killing run feels like, well, that's the developmental."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:47:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Killing ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the maker said so: a Tarantino quote the host reads) · lineage · Tarantino said Reservoir Dogs was his version of Kubrick's heist film, without meaning it as a ripoff. · "but I did think of it as my killing, my take on that kind of heist movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:54:01 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) · programming · Film and Clarke's novel were developed side by side, each holding the other hostage. · "But the 2 of them were being done in tandem."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:49:25 · unknown (0.35)] Eraserhead ↔ Following · craft · Nolan's debut was made like Eraserhead, piecemeal with day-job actors, and Lynch became a guy for people with limited resources. · "made his film in a similar way, and I don't know if he's ever cited Lynch being the inspiration"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:30:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Day of the Fight ⇒ Killer's Kiss (the host's read) · lineage · The boxer short seems to the speaker like an inspiration for Killer's Kiss. · "Uh, it seems like a bit of, you know, an inspiration for killer's kiss, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:41:56 · unknown (0.40)] Stanley Kubrick ↔ The Killing · lineage · The Killing is where Kubrick first has a real grasp of the language; Paths of Glory sits after it. · "The killing is when he finally has sort of like a real grasp on the language."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Silent Running (the host's read) · lineage · 2001 spawned heady, serious, clean sci-fi like Silent Running. · "2001 leads to a spat of things like silent running, you know, these movies that are like very heady."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:05:46 · David Sims (0.40)] Clean Break (novel) ⇒ The Killing (the host's read) · lineage · The film is the screen version of the novel Clean Break. · "Clean Break was the name of the book."
[Blank Check · Dune · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to. · "Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 1:28:00 · David Sims (0.35)] The Killing ⇒ The Dark Knight (the host's read) · lineage · The clown mask is said to look basically like the Joker mask Nolan pays homage to in The Dark Knight. · "Nolan obviously pays homage to in the Dark Knight"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout. · "And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:41:29 · unknown (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ The Killing · craft · The overcomplicated hard-boiled dialogue of the rewrite is the kind that rules in The Killing. · "that's like the kind of dialogue that like rules in the killing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 2:48:04 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010 (the host's read) · lineage · Peter Hyams made a film sequel to 2001, following the books. · "But, like, he rolled up his sleeves and he was like, 2001?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:19:39 · David Sims (0.40)] The Killing ↔ Day of the Fight · craft · The racetrack footage reminds the speaker of Day of the Fight and Kubrick's Look magazine work. · "It reminds me of, you know, a lot of Kubrick stuff like Day of the Fight"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:11:43 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film has a sequel, and Clarke wrote three sequel novels. · "Obviously, the sequel exists."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:42:56 · Jordan Hoffman (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2069: A Sex Odyssey (the host's read) · lineage · The porn parody is said to be very influenced by 2001. · "actually is actually very influenced by this film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:52:22 · unknown (0.30)] The Sentinel (short story) ⇒ 2001: A Space Odyssey (the host's read) · lineage · The film and companion novel drafted off Clarke's short story The Sentinel, which had the germ of the monolith idea. · "So it's going off drafting off of the Sentinel."
[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] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Alex Ross Perry · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · Loves Fight Club as a formative film he saw at the AMC Marple on opening night and again on Saturday, and says it still ranks among his heart picks despite finding it juvenile now. Respects a movie that looks good. Cannot stand the Fincher perfectionist myth, and thinks his push for digital had a bad influence. A sucker for Zodiac, which he ranks first. · stances: Fight Club is a time capsule: deeply embarrassing to admire but loved spiritually; Fincher's perfectionist myth and digital proselytizing are overrated; The second half and Project Mayhem say nothing new; Zodiac is the best Fincher
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[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 Fear and Desire (1953); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Fear and Desire (1953) 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.