What the corpus says about Taxi Driver (1976)

The 60 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (19)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:55:34 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Murder by Contract ⇒ Taxi Driver (the host's read) · lineage · Murder by Contract is called a huge influence on Taxi Driver. · "very well-known for murder by contract, which was a huge influence on taxi driver"
  2. [Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:47 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · The speaker groups Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and King of Comedy as De Niro plumbing damaged psychologies. · "It's part of a trilogy with Taxi Driver."
  3. [Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:02:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · Every scene of Star 80 is likened to the porno scene in Taxi Driver turned up to 75. · "Like every scene of this movie is like the porno scene in Taxi Driver, but amped up to 75."
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:47:58 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · A list of distressed-New-York movies made in about six years, with this film among them. · "Mean streets, taxi driver, Death Wish, the Warriors"
  5. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:19:53 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · All Scorsese movies are about guys chasing something they think will ease unresolved pain. · "all the Scorsese movies are all about these unresolved pains, you know, the desire to be more famous, the desire to be more successful"
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:03:18 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Taxi Driver ⇒ Thief (the host's read) · craft · Scorsese used wet streets in Taxi Driver before Mann made it a signature. · "Scorsese did a little bit in taxi driver"
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:07 · David Sims (0.40)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Taxi Driver · craft · One crew member has a Travis Bickle gun-sling rig. · "So this guy has the, like, Travis Bickle... It's got the gun, the gun slings, right?"
  8. [Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:33:11 · David Krumholtz (0.50)] Raging Bull ↔ Taxi Driver · contrast · Taxi Driver is a straight drama while Raging Bull is a brutal comedy and tragedy. · "Taxi driver is a straight drama."
  9. [The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:42:56 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Network ↔ Taxi Driver · contrast · Network is the extravagant experiment of collaborators at their peak; Taxi Driver is daring too, but less so. · "Taxi Driver is pretty pretty daring, but network is an extravagant experiment and a collision of people at the absolute height of their powers all working together."
  10. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:25:13 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Princess Mononoke ↔ Taxi Driver · industry · The no-cuts sword story is paired with Scorsese's story of nearly holding Columbia hostage over a recut of Taxi Driver. · "Scorsese has that story about the night that he almost had a mental breakdown when Columbia wanted to recut taxi driver"
  11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:33:06 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Taxi Driver · industry · Taxi Driver may be more cinematically important in movie history, but All the President's Men is the perfect Oscar movie and Scorsese should have won director. · "I would go, all the president's been for a movie, and I would go Scorsese for best director."
  12. [Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:31:16 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Taxi Driver · audience empathy · Both make you find something to relate to in a despicable man. · "which is true taxi driver too."
  13. [Blank Check · Fargo · 1:41:36 · Zach Cregger (0.40)] Fargo ↔ Taxi Driver · voyeuristic framing · The shot of Jerry rehearsing his phone call from the hallway is likened to Taxi Driver's payphone scene. · "It's like the fucking taxi driver, uh, payphone scene."
  14. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:21:42 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Taxi Driver · unexplained protagonist · The underground man of Taxi Driver is cited as another Scorsese lead who simply is as he is. · "Jake Lamata or Rupert Pupkin or um, the underground man and taxi driver, like, They just are as they are."
  15. [The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:24:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Taxi Driver · dim protagonist · Ernest joins Scorsese's lineage of dim men wreaking havoc: Jake LaMotta, Travis Bickle, Henry Hill. · "You could say this is true of Jake Lamata. You could say this is true of Travis Bickle. You could say this is true of Henry Hill."
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:55:42 · Patton Oswalt (0.50)] Murder by Contract ↔ Taxi Driver · scene resemblance · The hotel-room exercise scenes in Murder by Contract are all Travis Bickle. · "that's all Travis Bickle"
  17. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:56:25 · Patton Oswalt (0.55)] The Killing ↔ Taxi Driver · modern noir · Patton calls Murder by Contract chilling and unsettling and not like earlier noir, and says the same of The Killing as one of the most modern noirs. · "this is one of the noirs that feels the most modern to me"
  18. [The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:30:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.65)] Jodie Foster ↔ Taxi Driver · career · Foster has always played steely people in peril, going all the way back to Taxi Driver. · "and that goes all the way back to taxi driver."
  19. [Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:01:37 · unknown (0.30)] Eric Roberts ↔ Taxi Driver · people · A speaker thinks the Snyder performance would have been more interesting if influenced by Travis Bickle. · "It would have been interesting if this was sort of like more influenced by Travis Bickle as a performance."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

  1. [pairs] Taxi Driver ↔ Raging Bull · said 3 times in 1 episode
  2. [pairs] Taxi Driver ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · said 2 times in 1 episode
  3. [pairs] Taxi Driver ↔ Murder by Contract · said 2 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (29)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:35 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · programming · Another double-feature choice, Raging Bull, picked by one host. · "I go Raging Bull."
  2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:23:57 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · programming · Koppelman's double-feature picks are Wolf of Wall Street or Sweet Smell of Success. · "Either wolf of Wall Street or sweet smell of success."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:17:13 · David Sims (0.60)] Prometheus ↔ Alien Resurrection · programming · The Patreon run continues with Prometheus then Covenant after this final Ripley film. · "Tune in for Prometheus, tune in for covenant."
  4. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:27:03 · unknown (0.40)] Fargo ↔ Fargo · programming · Jerry's salesman-of-the-month picture behind him is offered as a Fargo secret-handshake prop. · "I would love uh, Jerry's, like, salesman of the month picture that's behind Jerry in Fargo."
  5. [Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:42 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ⇒ The King of Comedy (the host's read) · lineage · King of Comedy is a part-2 of sorts about a delusional comedian, echoing LaMotta's stand-up, and is part of a De Niro trilogy with Taxi Driver. · "There's the king of comedy, the spiritual sequel to Raging Bull."
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:25:01 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Boiler Room ⇒ The Wolf of Wall Street (the host's read) · lineage · Koppelman says Boiler Room informed Wolf, being the fictional version of Jordan Belfort's story. · "Boiler Room really informed Wolf of Wall Street because Boiler Room was the fictional version of Jordan's story"
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
  8. [Blank Check · Fargo · 0:10:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Fargo ⇒ Fargo (unaired NBC pilot with Edie Falco) (the host's read) · lineage · An NBC pilot directed by Kathy Bates with Edie Falco as Marge aired years later; the Coens were not involved. · "There was like an NBC pilot directed by Kathy Bates with Edie Falco playing Marge Gunderson."
  9. [Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:58:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Italianamerican ⇒ Raging Bull (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese's parents fighting in Italianamerican and American Boy taught him the rhythm replicated in Raging Bull's family fight scenes. · "And so much of his parents fighting in Italian American is the feeling of the family fight scenes in this movie."
  10. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:16:54 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ⇒ One Battle After Another (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese influenced PTA, and the uncomfortable-laughter humor of Wolf is very PTA. · "Scorsese is a huge influence on all filmmakers, including PTA, and there is a, like, a really screwed up level to the humor in this movie that is that is very PTA as well"
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
  12. [Blank Check · Fargo · 0:33:14 · unknown (0.50)] Barbarian ↔ Fargo · theme · Barbarian is called a scary movie that is funny with humor from the bizarreness of human behavior, as with the Coens. · "you made a scary movie that was funny."
  13. [Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:08:55 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Rocky ⇒ Raging Bull (the maker said so) · theme · Scorsese shot in black and white to differentiate from Rocky-era bright red-white-and-blue boxing movies, and producer Winkler produced both. · "Number one, I want to differentiate from the Rockies and all the other sort of boxing movies right now."
  14. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:27:43 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Gangs of New York · lineage · Leo arrived in Scorsese's world at Gangs of New York, which led to The Departed, Shutter Island and better Leo roles. · "if he doesn't make it, then you don't get the departed, you know, and you don't get Shutter Island and you don't get all these much more interesting Leo performances."
  15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:00 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Firefly (TV) (the host's read) · lineage · The Betty's space-pirate crew reads as proto-Firefly, Whedon's later show. · "I mean, some proto firefly stuff."
  16. [Blank Check · Fargo · 2:40:16 · David Sims (0.40)] Prelude to a Kiss ↔ Fargo · theme · Alec Baldwin treats Prelude to a Kiss as his Fargo, a perfect movie that didn't last. · "as if it was obviously his Fargo."
  17. [Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:59:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · craft · Schrader's draft intercut a whole life like the later Dewey Cox style that many biopics now follow, before Raging Bull used bookends and one flashback. · "Dewey Cox style originally was more the structure of the movie."
  18. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Industry ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · The TV show Industry belongs to the same lineage of finance stories. · "Boiler room, margin call and industry."
  19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs. · "the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly"
  20. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:14:46 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Fargo ↔ The Shining · theme · A carpeted-restaurant joke leads to Kubrick's carpets and a Palm Springs hotel with the same carpet as the Shining hotel. · "I was at a hotel in Palm Springs a few months ago and it has the exact same carpet as the Shining Hotel."
  21. [Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:33:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Midnight Cowboy · craft · Midnight Cowboy has an innocent at the center to balance Ratso; Raging Bull is the Rizzo movie with no such cushion. · "But this is the Razzo Rizzo movie, sort of, and again, another reason, they don't they can't make this today."
  22. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Boiler Room ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Boiler Room, Margin Call and Industry are finance-bro stories that Wolf tops as the mothership. · "if you like these movies about how all the finance bros aren't living the good life, but also maybe not, you know, then this is the ultimate."
  23. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:11:15 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Heavy Metal · lineage · Ripley 7's mutant looks like French graphic novels, Moebius and Metal Hurlant. · "Like, this is Mobius, metal herlon shit."
  24. [Blank Check · Fargo · 0:34:16 · Zach Cregger (0.70)] Carter Burwell ↔ Fargo · craft · Cregger says the Paul Bunyan statue shot is lit and scored like the scariest thing you have ever seen, with Burwell's score. · "they light it and shoot it like the scariest fucking thing you've ever seen. With the fucking Carter Burwell score"
  25. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Margin Call is in the finance-movie family that Wolf is the mothership of. · "This is, you know, the mothership."
  26. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:55:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Goldfinger ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · The newborn alien sucked out the window repeats the Goldfinger ending, but sad. · "it's the goldfinger ending."
  27. [Blank Check · Fargo · 0:34:54 · Zach Cregger (0.50)] Carter Burwell ↔ Fargo · craft · Burwell's score plays the dread straight and never acknowledges the film's zaniness, its most playful moment being the break-in buildup. · "this movie, with all of the zaniness that's definitely in here. His score never really acknowledges any of it."
  28. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Wall Street ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Oliver Stone's Wall Street is part of the lineage but feels small beside Wolf. · "That movie feels very small compared to Wolf of Wall Street."
  29. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:06:26 · unknown (0.50)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection brings Ripley back as a clone, which undoes Alien 3's chosen death. · "My nuclear take is bringing her back to life as a clone is more disrespectful than killing, uh, hicks and newt in this movie."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

  1. [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
  2. [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
  3. [speaker] Patton Oswalt · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · Watches The Killing repeatedly, loves noir and character actors, Timothy Carey stories, Matthau in Pelham 123, Albert Brooks and Adam Sandler's dramatic work, Shudder and the Corman-style ecosystem. Hates the method and the auteur theory. · stances: The method and the auteur theory both get in the way of the work; The Killing's characters are small-time crooks who aren't smart enough; Titles do real work, the killing is a double meaning; Genre outsiders like Shudder directors will be the next filmmakers
  4. [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
  5. [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
  6. [speaker] David Krumholtz · latest sketch, Blank Check · Raging Bull · Reveres Raging Bull as one of a small handful of films he bows to, alongside some Spike Lee, Spielberg, Kubrick and Scorsese. Worships De Niro as the actor nobody will ever be better than, and loves Pacino, Hoffman and Denzel as peers. Distrusts AI and metrics-driven Hollywood and likes sacrifice and humanity on screen. · stances: Raging Bull completely validates cinema; De Niro is the greatest, no such thing as better; AI cannot replace humans because the audience is human; Hollywood development executives and sabermetrics ruin movies

The shows' running bits (3)

  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] 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)
  3. [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

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md 
You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Taxi Driver (1976) 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 Taxi Driver (1976) 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 · The Killing · 0:55:34 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Murder by Contract ⇒ Taxi Driver (the host's read) · lineage · Murder by Contract is called a huge influence on Taxi Driver. · "very well-known for murder by contract, which was a huge influence on taxi driver"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:47 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · The speaker groups Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and King of Comedy as De Niro plumbing damaged psychologies. · "It's part of a trilogy with Taxi Driver."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:02:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · Every scene of Star 80 is likened to the porno scene in Taxi Driver turned up to 75. · "Like every scene of this movie is like the porno scene in Taxi Driver, but amped up to 75."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:47:58 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · A list of distressed-New-York movies made in about six years, with this film among them. · "Mean streets, taxi driver, Death Wish, the Warriors"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:19:53 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · All Scorsese movies are about guys chasing something they think will ease unresolved pain. · "all the Scorsese movies are all about these unresolved pains, you know, the desire to be more famous, the desire to be more successful"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:03:18 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Taxi Driver ⇒ Thief (the host's read) · craft · Scorsese used wet streets in Taxi Driver before Mann made it a signature. · "Scorsese did a little bit in taxi driver"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:07 · David Sims (0.40)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Taxi Driver · craft · One crew member has a Travis Bickle gun-sling rig. · "So this guy has the, like, Travis Bickle... It's got the gun, the gun slings, right?"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:33:11 · David Krumholtz (0.50)] Raging Bull ↔ Taxi Driver · contrast · Taxi Driver is a straight drama while Raging Bull is a brutal comedy and tragedy. · "Taxi driver is a straight drama."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:42:56 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Network ↔ Taxi Driver · contrast · Network is the extravagant experiment of collaborators at their peak; Taxi Driver is daring too, but less so. · "Taxi Driver is pretty pretty daring, but network is an extravagant experiment and a collision of people at the absolute height of their powers all working together."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:25:13 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Princess Mononoke ↔ Taxi Driver · industry · The no-cuts sword story is paired with Scorsese's story of nearly holding Columbia hostage over a recut of Taxi Driver. · "Scorsese has that story about the night that he almost had a mental breakdown when Columbia wanted to recut taxi driver"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:33:06 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Taxi Driver · industry · Taxi Driver may be more cinematically important in movie history, but All the President's Men is the perfect Oscar movie and Scorsese should have won director. · "I would go, all the president's been for a movie, and I would go Scorsese for best director."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:31:16 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Taxi Driver · audience empathy · Both make you find something to relate to in a despicable man. · "which is true taxi driver too."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 1:41:36 · Zach Cregger (0.40)] Fargo ↔ Taxi Driver · voyeuristic framing · The shot of Jerry rehearsing his phone call from the hallway is likened to Taxi Driver's payphone scene. · "It's like the fucking taxi driver, uh, payphone scene."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:21:42 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Taxi Driver · unexplained protagonist · The underground man of Taxi Driver is cited as another Scorsese lead who simply is as he is. · "Jake Lamata or Rupert Pupkin or um, the underground man and taxi driver, like, They just are as they are."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:24:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Taxi Driver · dim protagonist · Ernest joins Scorsese's lineage of dim men wreaking havoc: Jake LaMotta, Travis Bickle, Henry Hill. · "You could say this is true of Jake Lamata. You could say this is true of Travis Bickle. You could say this is true of Henry Hill."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:55:42 · Patton Oswalt (0.50)] Murder by Contract ↔ Taxi Driver · scene resemblance · The hotel-room exercise scenes in Murder by Contract are all Travis Bickle. · "that's all Travis Bickle"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:56:25 · Patton Oswalt (0.55)] The Killing ↔ Taxi Driver · modern noir · Patton calls Murder by Contract chilling and unsettling and not like earlier noir, and says the same of The Killing as one of the most modern noirs. · "this is one of the noirs that feels the most modern to me"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:30:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.65)] Jodie Foster ↔ Taxi Driver · career · Foster has always played steely people in peril, going all the way back to Taxi Driver. · "and that goes all the way back to taxi driver."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:01:37 · unknown (0.30)] Eric Roberts ↔ Taxi Driver · people · A speaker thinks the Snyder performance would have been more interesting if influenced by Travis Bickle. · "It would have been interesting if this was sort of like more influenced by Travis Bickle as a performance."
[pairs] Taxi Driver ↔ Raging Bull · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Taxi Driver ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Taxi Driver ↔ Murder by Contract · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:35 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · programming · Another double-feature choice, Raging Bull, picked by one host. · "I go Raging Bull."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:23:57 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · programming · Koppelman's double-feature picks are Wolf of Wall Street or Sweet Smell of Success. · "Either wolf of Wall Street or sweet smell of success."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:17:13 · David Sims (0.60)] Prometheus ↔ Alien Resurrection · programming · The Patreon run continues with Prometheus then Covenant after this final Ripley film. · "Tune in for Prometheus, tune in for covenant."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:27:03 · unknown (0.40)] Fargo ↔ Fargo · programming · Jerry's salesman-of-the-month picture behind him is offered as a Fargo secret-handshake prop. · "I would love uh, Jerry's, like, salesman of the month picture that's behind Jerry in Fargo."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:42 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ⇒ The King of Comedy (the host's read) · lineage · King of Comedy is a part-2 of sorts about a delusional comedian, echoing LaMotta's stand-up, and is part of a De Niro trilogy with Taxi Driver. · "There's the king of comedy, the spiritual sequel to Raging Bull."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:25:01 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Boiler Room ⇒ The Wolf of Wall Street (the host's read) · lineage · Koppelman says Boiler Room informed Wolf, being the fictional version of Jordan Belfort's story. · "Boiler Room really informed Wolf of Wall Street because Boiler Room was the fictional version of Jordan's story"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:10:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Fargo ⇒ Fargo (unaired NBC pilot with Edie Falco) (the host's read) · lineage · An NBC pilot directed by Kathy Bates with Edie Falco as Marge aired years later; the Coens were not involved. · "There was like an NBC pilot directed by Kathy Bates with Edie Falco playing Marge Gunderson."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:58:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Italianamerican ⇒ Raging Bull (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese's parents fighting in Italianamerican and American Boy taught him the rhythm replicated in Raging Bull's family fight scenes. · "And so much of his parents fighting in Italian American is the feeling of the family fight scenes in this movie."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:16:54 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ⇒ One Battle After Another (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese influenced PTA, and the uncomfortable-laughter humor of Wolf is very PTA. · "Scorsese is a huge influence on all filmmakers, including PTA, and there is a, like, a really screwed up level to the humor in this movie that is that is very PTA as well"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:33:14 · unknown (0.50)] Barbarian ↔ Fargo · theme · Barbarian is called a scary movie that is funny with humor from the bizarreness of human behavior, as with the Coens. · "you made a scary movie that was funny."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:08:55 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Rocky ⇒ Raging Bull (the maker said so) · theme · Scorsese shot in black and white to differentiate from Rocky-era bright red-white-and-blue boxing movies, and producer Winkler produced both. · "Number one, I want to differentiate from the Rockies and all the other sort of boxing movies right now."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:27:43 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Gangs of New York · lineage · Leo arrived in Scorsese's world at Gangs of New York, which led to The Departed, Shutter Island and better Leo roles. · "if he doesn't make it, then you don't get the departed, you know, and you don't get Shutter Island and you don't get all these much more interesting Leo performances."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:00 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Firefly (TV) (the host's read) · lineage · The Betty's space-pirate crew reads as proto-Firefly, Whedon's later show. · "I mean, some proto firefly stuff."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 2:40:16 · David Sims (0.40)] Prelude to a Kiss ↔ Fargo · theme · Alec Baldwin treats Prelude to a Kiss as his Fargo, a perfect movie that didn't last. · "as if it was obviously his Fargo."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:59:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · craft · Schrader's draft intercut a whole life like the later Dewey Cox style that many biopics now follow, before Raging Bull used bookends and one flashback. · "Dewey Cox style originally was more the structure of the movie."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Industry ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · The TV show Industry belongs to the same lineage of finance stories. · "Boiler room, margin call and industry."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs. · "the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:14:46 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Fargo ↔ The Shining · theme · A carpeted-restaurant joke leads to Kubrick's carpets and a Palm Springs hotel with the same carpet as the Shining hotel. · "I was at a hotel in Palm Springs a few months ago and it has the exact same carpet as the Shining Hotel."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:33:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Midnight Cowboy · craft · Midnight Cowboy has an innocent at the center to balance Ratso; Raging Bull is the Rizzo movie with no such cushion. · "But this is the Razzo Rizzo movie, sort of, and again, another reason, they don't they can't make this today."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Boiler Room ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Boiler Room, Margin Call and Industry are finance-bro stories that Wolf tops as the mothership. · "if you like these movies about how all the finance bros aren't living the good life, but also maybe not, you know, then this is the ultimate."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:11:15 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Heavy Metal · lineage · Ripley 7's mutant looks like French graphic novels, Moebius and Metal Hurlant. · "Like, this is Mobius, metal herlon shit."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:34:16 · Zach Cregger (0.70)] Carter Burwell ↔ Fargo · craft · Cregger says the Paul Bunyan statue shot is lit and scored like the scariest thing you have ever seen, with Burwell's score. · "they light it and shoot it like the scariest fucking thing you've ever seen. With the fucking Carter Burwell score"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Margin Call is in the finance-movie family that Wolf is the mothership of. · "This is, you know, the mothership."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:55:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Goldfinger ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · The newborn alien sucked out the window repeats the Goldfinger ending, but sad. · "it's the goldfinger ending."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:34:54 · Zach Cregger (0.50)] Carter Burwell ↔ Fargo · craft · Burwell's score plays the dread straight and never acknowledges the film's zaniness, its most playful moment being the break-in buildup. · "this movie, with all of the zaniness that's definitely in here. His score never really acknowledges any of it."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Wall Street ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Oliver Stone's Wall Street is part of the lineage but feels small beside Wolf. · "That movie feels very small compared to Wolf of Wall Street."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:06:26 · unknown (0.50)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection brings Ripley back as a clone, which undoes Alien 3's chosen death. · "My nuclear take is bringing her back to life as a clone is more disrespectful than killing, uh, hicks and newt in this movie."
[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] 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] Patton Oswalt · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · Watches The Killing repeatedly, loves noir and character actors, Timothy Carey stories, Matthau in Pelham 123, Albert Brooks and Adam Sandler's dramatic work, Shudder and the Corman-style ecosystem. Hates the method and the auteur theory. · stances: The method and the auteur theory both get in the way of the work; The Killing's characters are small-time crooks who aren't smart enough; Titles do real work, the killing is a double meaning; Genre outsiders like Shudder directors will be the next filmmakers
[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
[speaker] David Krumholtz · latest sketch, Blank Check · Raging Bull · Reveres Raging Bull as one of a small handful of films he bows to, alongside some Spike Lee, Spielberg, Kubrick and Scorsese. Worships De Niro as the actor nobody will ever be better than, and loves Pacino, Hoffman and Denzel as peers. Distrusts AI and metrics-driven Hollywood and likes sacrifice and humanity on screen. · stances: Raging Bull completely validates cinema; De Niro is the greatest, no such thing as better; AI cannot replace humans because the audience is human; Hollywood development executives and sabermetrics ruin movies
[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)
[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 Taxi Driver (1976); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Taxi Driver (1976) 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.