What the corpus says about Aftersun (2022)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Aftersun (2022) 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 Aftersun (2022) 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 Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:23:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Aftersun ↔ The Fabelmans · programming · Sean calls Aftersun an interesting pairing with The Fabelmans, both memory movies about childhood; Aftersun is told while the memory is fresher. · "Interesting pairing with the fablemans, this movie."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:24:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Aftersun ↔ Moonlight · industry · Sean says A24 could push Aftersun like Moonlight if they did not have Everything Everywhere All at Once. · "you could see them really pushing a kind of moonlight-esque campaign behind this film."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:22:07 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Aftersun · fun · Adam says it destroyed him, being about how kids look at unhappy parents, and that Paul Mescal might be a great actor based on it. Sean and Amanda were mixed; Amanda says she watches as a child of parents. · "The movie just absolutely killed me dead."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:35:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Moonlight · programming · Moonlight is the model of a film that was right for its moment, against which Chicago 7's timeliness is weighed. · "I always felt like Moonlight was a movie for its time in a very sentimental way"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Nope ↔ The Fabelmans · programming · Sean finds it fascinating that in one year Spielberg made a movie about why he makes movies and Peele made the most Spielbergian movie in ages. · "it's fascinating that this is a year in which Spielberg made a movie about how he figured out why he wanted to make movies"
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:26:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Minari ↔ Moonlight · lineage · Minari has been compared to Moonlight, which is also an A24 awards breakthrough. · "Minari has been compared in many ways to moonlight for a variety of reasons."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:36:23 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ The Fabelmans · theme · Bendis says he sees the movie differently after The Fabelmans. · "I honestly don't think I've heard a serious conversation about this movie Post Fabelman's"
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:19:54 · David Sims (0.45)] An Angel at My Table ↔ Moonlight · craft · Three-actor, three-part handoff with continuity of performance; Moonlight also made on a compressed schedule. · "there's a similar sort of handoff quality to it and a continuity of performance"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:28:09 · unknown (0.50)] The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · theme · Marion's monkey scenes mirror Spielberg's mother's relationship with the monkey shown in The Fabelmans. · "the relationship Marion has with the monkey, in that brief amount of screen time, feels so mirrored to his mother's relationship with the monkey"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:28:40 · unknown (0.50)] The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · theme · Marion is partly Spielberg's mother, which keeps her from being an idealized tough-girl fantasy. · "it does feel like to some degree she's like his mom."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:39:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] The Fabelmans ↔ American Graffiti · theme · Amanda compares the high school interlude in the middle of The Fabelmans to American Graffiti. · "the lovely American graffiti high school, like interlude in the middle."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:41:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Nope ↔ The Fabelmans · theme · Sean says Nope, like The Fabelmans, explores self and what you do in the act of making movies. · "similar to the Fablemans, like exploration of self and like what you do in the act of making movies"
[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
[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] 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)

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 Aftersun (2022); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Aftersun (2022) 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.