What the corpus says about Kundun (1997)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Kundun (1997) 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 Kundun (1997) 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 · Raging Bull · 2:19:00 · unknown host (0.30)] Seven Years in Tibet ↔ Kundun · programming · Both films angered the Chinese government and were released by Hollywood around the same time. · "Oh, 2 films that angered the Chinese government that were released by Hollywood."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:00:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Kundun · lineage · An American version of the desolate landscapes and haunting spirituality of Kundun, Silence, Last Temptation. · "it is him doing an American version in some ways of what he did in Kundun, in silence, and last temptation of Christ"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:13:16 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Kundun · controversy · Kundun, via Chinese government anger, is offered as a rival for Scorsese's most controversial film. · "If you're going by pure numbers, I guess you could go for Kundu"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:01:54 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Kundun · trilogy · Together with Silence, Kundun and Last Temptation form a loose trilogy about faith. · "he has this kind of loose trilogy about faith that is really funny."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 0:23:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Kundun · slower religious cut · Scorsese's religious movies are slower and more painterly than the fast style of After Hours. · "His religious movies are more slower paced and more painterly, I would say."
[pairs] Kundun ↔ The Last Temptation of Christ · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:14:40 · David Sims (0.40)] Tucker: The Man and His Dream ↔ The Last Temptation of Christ · programming · Scorsese and Coppola released passion projects the same weekend. · "Just interesting that Marty and Francis on the same weekend released like passion projects"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:18:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Silence · programming · Amanda watched Silence the day before and went straight to Killers. · "I watched silence yesterday and immediately went to sit down with you to watch Killers of the Flower Moon"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:44:30 · David Sims (0.40)] Barbara Hershey ⇒ The Last Temptation of Christ (the host's read) · lineage · Hershey also planted the book in Scorsese's head and told him to let her audition as Mary Magdalene. · "But it's planted in his head by her."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:35:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · lineage · The car make-out scene is a funny Titanic callback. · "I thought there was a really funny callback to Titanic when they're making out in the car."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:45:07 · David Sims (0.50)] The Robe ⇒ The Last Temptation of Christ (the host's read) · lineage · The Robe is the first Christ movie Scorsese remembers seeing. · "The 1st Christ movie he remembers seeing is the robe."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:26:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Both feature a too-smart-for-his-own-good man doing dumb things who thinks he'll get away with it. · "I thought a lot of Wolf of Wall Street. While doing it because that is a guy who is too smart for his own good, but also doing a lot of really dumb shit."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:52:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Peter Gabriel ↔ The Last Temptation of Christ · lineage · Gabriel's score is claimed to shape how every Middle East-set film sounds. · "But like every movie set in the Middle East now sounds like this because of this score."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:59:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Giant · theme · Its magnitude and oil, family and betrayal themes recall Giant, with Ford, Hawks, Stevens epic scale. · "I did think of giant a few times while watching the movie, which is a movie about oil and families and betrayal."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:07:01 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Ishtar · theme · Per Miriam Bale, it shares many Moroccan locations with Ishtar, shot around the same time. · "Yes, it shares a lot of locations with Ishtar, which was made around the same time."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:00:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Shane · theme · Sean notes Scorsese often talks about Shane when discussing Westerns. · "Scorsese talks about Shane a lot."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:43:14 · David Sims (0.50)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Star Trek: The Next Generation, 'The Inner Light' · theme · Jesus lives a whole accelerated lifetime in a vision, like Picard living 50 years on a village. · "You can't not think of the inner light, the most famous episode of this of that show."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:16:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · craft · Ferrari's quick impressionistic opening flashback recalls the silent-film-style opening of Killers of the Flower Moon. · "it reminded me a bit of the opening sequence of the Killers of the Flower Moon, where it's kind of shot in this old school, like silent film style."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:49:12 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ X2 · theme · Judas recognizing the child angel as Satan is jokingly tied to creepy-girl villains in Resident Evil and X2's White Queen. · "Have you ever seen Resident Evil?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:14:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Goodfellas ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · craft · The opening tracking shot echoes the Copacabana shot before the film rejects that mode. · "It was a very long tracking shot through Leo's arrival, which is, you know, gesturing to Copacabana"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:50:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ It's a Wonderful Life · theme · Jesus dragging himself back to the cross after seeing the life he wasn't given plays like the wonderful-life reversal. · "also a very kind of like it's a wonderful life scene."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:29:37 · Sean Fennessey or Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Thelma Schoonmaker ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · craft · Her signature cutting style appears in Killers only for the violent outbursts, not the hard push-in zooms of old. · "the Thelma Schoolmaker cutting style, which they use like sometimes in this movie, but only really for the violent outbursts."
[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] 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
[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 Kundun (1997); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Kundun (1997) 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.