What the corpus says about The Soloist (2009)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Soloist (2009) 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 Soloist (2009) 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 · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:12:20 · Joe Wright (0.95)] The Soloist ↔ Darkest Hour · theme · On real-life stories: you cannot change events, so The Soloist got a smaller ending of friendship; Darkest Hour seeks truth over fact. · "you're not necessarily wanting the facts, you're wanting the truth, and they sometimes are different things"
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 0:23:40 · David Sims (0.40)] The Soloist ↔ Iron Man · industry · The Soloist was shot before Iron Man and was pushed back to ride the bump. · "That was originally supposed to come out before Iron Man. pushed it back so it could receive the bump of him being figured out."
[The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:15:27 · Joe Wright (0.95)] Andrei Tarkovsky ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright, on the show) · lineage · Wright wants his work called cinematic and cites Tarkovsky's 'sculpting in time'. · "as Tarkovsky put it, sculpting in time."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:23:12 · Griffin or David (0.35)] Iron Man ↔ The Incredible Hulk · programming · Both Iron Man's post-credits Fury scene and Tony's Hulk cameo got audiences cheering, building the idea of a shared universe. · "I was so invested in the idea, which seems hilarious now of a cinematic universe."
[The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:04:10 · Joe Wright (0.95)] Darkest Hour ↔ Black Mirror (TV episode directed by Wright) · theme · Both are scripts of people talking in rooms, which challenged him to find cinema in conversation. · "it was men in rooms talking to each other, the creative challenge of that thrilled me."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:18:06 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Iron Man 2 · programming · Griffin has a point about Paltrow in Iron Man 2 and promises a separate Iron Man 2 commentary. · "We're going to do an Iron Man 2 commentary so we can talk about the movie I want to talk about there."
[The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:05:00 · Joe Wright (0.95)] Max Richter ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright speaking of his own film on the show) · craft · Wright says he wanted a cinematic equivalent of the minimalist music he was listening to, including Max Richter. · "I was also listening to a lot of minimalist music at the time, Max Richter and Niels Fram and, of course, the great Philip Glass and so on."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:48:57 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Thor · programming · The hosts preview the next trio: Thor, Captain America, Avengers; one hates Thor. · "So what our next three is going to be Thor, Captain America, Avengers."
[The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:05:00 · Joe Wright (0.95)] Nils Frahm ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright speaking of his own film on the show) · craft · Wright says he wanted a cinematic equivalent of the minimalist music he was listening to, including Nils Frahm. · "I was also listening to a lot of minimalist music at the time, Max Richter and Niels Fram and, of course, the great Philip Glass and so on."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 2:01:42 · unknown (Griffin) (0.50)] Iron Man ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Mentions Captain Marvel's upcoming 90s setting and Kamala Khan idolizing her as a possible future movie. · "And then like models herself after Captain Marvel."
[The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:05:08 · Joe Wright (0.95)] Philip Glass ⇒ Darkest Hour (the maker said so: Wright, on the show) · craft · Wright aimed for a cinematic equivalent of minimalist music by Richter, Frahm and Glass. · "I wanted to try and achieve some kind of cinematic aesthetic equivalent to that music."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:18:57 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read) · lineage · The Iron Man trilogy is closed into a circle by the flashback to the party and Becca Hall and Pierce. · "as individualistic as this movie is, it actually like... It's bringing the 1st 2 complete."
[The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:05:23 · Joe Wright (0.95)] Bruno Delbonnel ↔ Darkest Hour · craft · With DP Bruno Delbonnel he developed a simple, honest, truthful style. · "together we we developed a style that was trying to just be as simple and as honest and as dramatic as possible"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:09:11 · unknown (Griffin or David) (0.30)] Iron Man ⇒ modern superhero movies (the host's read) · lineage · Called the prototype format every later superhero film riffs on. · "this is the prototype for the modern superhero movie."
[The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:06:18 · Joe Wright (0.95)] Joe Wright ↔ Darkest Hour · craft · Wright thinks film is like music, happening in time, and gives actors rhythm notes by singing them. · "Film for me is most like music."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:27:36 · unknown (probably David) (0.40)] Stan Lee ⇒ Iron Man (the maker said so: Stan Lee interviews) · lineage · The film follows the first comic issue's origin; Lee wanted to make an industrialist war profiteer compelling to hippie kids. · "here's like an industrialist, war profiteer, Laos, and make him like compelling to these, like, hippie kids."
[The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · 0:10:08 · Joe Wright (0.95)] Dario Marianelli ↔ Darkest Hour · craft · He sent Marianelli a photo of Oldman walking as Churchill, to write music with a TikTok tempo, before shooting. · "I took a picture of Gary walking as Churchill in one of those early sessions and sent it to Dario Marianelli."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:05:06 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Batman Begins · lineage · The suit-development process scenes are a funny version of Batman Begins' gadget-building. · "This is like funny version of Batman begins."
[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] Joe Wright · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture · Loves cinematic beauty, rhythm and music, minimalist composers, and 1970s-80s auteurs plus British TV drama. Can't stand being called painterly, box-office tracking, or superhero movies. A sucker for emotional sets, singalongs and performances from unusual actors. · stances: Film is most like music; it happens in time; Prefers cinematic to painterly; Doubt is a component of wisdom; Does not compare himself to other artists; Not snobbish about television
[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 The Soloist (2009); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Soloist (2009) 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.