What the corpus says about Star 80 (1983)

The 54 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 (24)

[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."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:02:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Boogie Nights · theme · Star 80 produces the same turn-it-off discomfort as the firecracker scene in Boogie Nights. · "Combined with the firework, the firecracker scene in boogie nights."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:07:34 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Anatomy of a Murder · theme · Concern for the ruined man instead of the woman echoes Anatomy of a Murder's rape-trial rhetoric. · "That reminds me of an anatomy of murder when they're prosecuting the, they're like, let's think about ruining a man's life before we convict this person of rape"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:33:34 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · Kael's charge that Clockwork Orange was prurient and pitied only Alex is applied to Star 80 and Snyder. · "I think the only sympathy that you see from the filmmaker is with Paul Snyder."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:16:03 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ Kate Plays Christine · theme · Kate Plays Christine is cited as a film about the compulsion to tell tragic victims' stories and play them. · "it is a movie about an actor trying to play a tragic, you know, a person who killed herself on news."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:23:50 · David Sims (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ Cabaret · theme · Fosse's female characters like Sally Bowles and Honey Bruce got rich interior life, which Star 80 lacks. · "I would even argue, honey, Bruce, like, you know, who really is, like, pretty wonderful."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:28:09 · unknown (0.30)] Star 80 ↔ Peeping Tom · theme · Peeping Tom was also savaged on release but was later vindicated, unlike Star 80. · "Except Peeping Tom is like eventually kind of vindicated and this people were like, no, fuck you."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:32:03 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lenny ⇒ Star 80 (the host's read) · craft · Star 80's interview framing/superstructure echoes Lenny's, and Lenny is the origin of the Chevy-Chase-style voice. · "This movie, you have the interview, this sort of superstructure that he loves so much"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:44:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Body Double · contrast · Body Double is pulp that deals with similar Hollywood grime and is fun, whereas Fosse could not treat it as pulp. · "But like, I mean, fossi, for better or worse, I don't think could view things as pulp."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:16:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ All That Jazz · career · Star 80 came about because Fosse had no planned follow-up after surviving the film in which he dies. · "I think he was almost embarrassed to still be alive after all that jazz."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:20:33 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ The Ward · career · Both are final films that dim a director's career, though The Ward is less toxic. · "a film that is a bummer on a career, which on what?"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:01:44 · Julie Klausner (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ Joker · people · A great performance in a harrowing role is called career-ruinous in the way people overstate Joker typecasting. · "I think it's an incredible performance, but I think it's the kind of performance that's like ruinous for a career."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:52:10 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Sweet Charity ↔ Star 80 · verdict · A lumpy joyful film is ranked above the powerful but hateful one. · "sweet charity is a lumpy movie that brings me joy versus star 80, a film that just makes me think very deeply about everything I hate about the world."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:40:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ The Big Chill · industry · The Big Chill was number one the week Star 80 opened in limited release. · "Number one of the box office is a generational classic."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:33:58 · David Sims (0.40)] Sweet Charity ⇒ Star 80 (the host's read) · technique · Fosse's choreographic insert/isolation technique reappears in Star 80, applied to ugly material. · "There's even the, I mean, the whole fossy isolation of the body parts thing, right?"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:44:14 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Body Double · timeline · Melanie Griffith was Fosse's first choice; Body Double (her comeback) came right after. · "Bob Fossey wants Melanie Griffith."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:56:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Manhattan · same phenomenon · Both star Hemingway and are about older men fixated on young women, one romanticized and one murderous. · "2 movies that are essentially about the same basic phenomenon, but in very, very different ways"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:07:33 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ American Psycho · counterexample · American Psycho, made by a team with female voices, succeeds as critique where Star 80 lacks her point of view. · "American psycho has 2 female voices behind it and is therefore such an insightful and even funny critique"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:20:59 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ All That Jazz · sibling pair · All That Jazz is who Fosse wanted to be, Star 80 is where he really is. · "that all that jazz was sort of like who we wanted to be and maybe Star 80 was saying, well, this is where I really am."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 2:00:09 · Julie Klausner (0.60)] Star 80 ↔ A Clockwork Orange · series handoff · Julie asks them to remember Star 80 when covering Kubrick's rape depiction. · "Think about, you know, how, you know, people say rape isn't about sex, unless you shoot it real sexy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:53:35 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Star 80 · violence compared · Fincher mentions Star 80 in the same breath. · "I holy respect straw dogs or even star 80."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:52:19 · host (Griffin Newman or David Sims, unattributed) (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ Sven Nykvist · craft · Fosse brought in the European master Nykvist to shoot Star 80 rather than his usual cinematographer. · "Like, so it's Fosse working with a great cinematographer, but not someone he knows."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:53:21 · host (Griffin Newman or David Sims, unattributed) (0.40)] Ralph Burns ↔ Star 80 · craft · Burns scored Star 80 with two stings, one a creeping-dread cue that the speaker finds upsetting even isolated. · "There's that... Well, then there's the creeping, like, dread, you know... Whenever that that truly makes my skin crawl whenever that plays."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:53:54 · host (Griffin Newman or David Sims, unattributed) (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ Billy Joel · verdict · The pop-song needle drops (Billy Joel at the prom and the rest) are judged the worst soundtrack from a great filmmaker. · "The worst. Just the way you are."

Films put beside it more than once (4)

[pairs] Star 80 ↔ A Clockwork Orange · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Star 80 ↔ All That Jazz · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Star 80 ↔ Sweet Charity · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Star 80 ↔ Body Double · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (5)

[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:05:34 · unknown (0.40)] Star 80 · fun · The soundtrack is a Jock Jams pile: Billy Joel's Just the Way You Are, YMCA, Do You Think I'm Sexy, Sing Sing Sing, Steppenwolf, played at the prom. · "One of the worst soundtracks from the best filmmakers."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:30:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 · fun · Fosse had his location scout break into the real murder house without a permit to recreate the carpet and details. · "he made the location scout break into the murder home without a permit and, uh, you know, take pictures"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:50:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 · fun · Fosse phoned Cliff Robertson mid-shoot, saying he did not want to get to the murder and did not want to see these people die. · "he's going to kill her and I don't know how to stop him."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:54:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 · fun · Roger Ebert liked it and called Roberts's performance the year's best; Hefner hated the intercutting of the photo sessions with the murder. · "Hugh Hefner thought it was disgusting the way it linked sex to violence."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:02:28 · unknown (0.30)] Star 80 · fun · Prom scene: Snyder stabs a football player in the butt with the filing end of a nail clipper in revenge for how he treated Stratton. · "The filing end of a nail clipper."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (16)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:43:02 · unknown (0.35)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Fight Club · programming · Fight Club is called the Clockwork Orange of another generation, an Edge Lord pick. · "This is kind of the clockwork Orange for another generation."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:30:05 · David Sims (0.40)] All That Jazz ↔ 8½ · lineage · All That Jazz is 8 1/2 adjacent and Nine adapted 8 1/2 as a musical. · "All that jazz is so 8.5 adjacent."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:07:36 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Body Double ⇒ American Psycho (the host's read) · lineage · American Psycho is described as the Reductress version of Body Double. · "it's almost like the, the, you know, reductress version of, um, body double in a way."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:29:57 · unknown (0.30)] Sweet Charity ↔ Big Deal on Madonna Street · lineage · Fosse repeatedly adapted Italian films into musicals (Sweet Charity from Fellini, Big Deal from Madonna Street). · "Adapting fucking Italian."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:07:36 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Body Double ⇒ American Psycho (the host's read) · lineage · American Psycho is described as the Reductress version of Body Double. · "it's almost like the, the, you know, reductress version of, um, body double in a way."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:22:08 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · The contrapuntal needle drop descends from Singin' in the Rain in Clockwork Orange and Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs. · "all the way back to singing in the rain in Clockwork Orange or stuck in the middle with you in, in, in, in Reservoir dogs."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:53:45 · unknown (0.40)] All That Jazz ⇒ David Fincher (the maker said so) · lineage · The speaker says Fincher loves Fosse and always cites All That Jazz. · "All that jazz is like a recurring influence."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:16:12 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ American Psycho · theme · Silver's rage is the 80s American Psycho kind. · "pours all of his 80s American psycho rage into it"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:20:24 · unknown (0.30)] Anthony Burgess ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Burgess's novel, and Kubrick found he had to change very little. · "Kubrick reads the book and is like, I didn't have to do much."
[Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:13:07 · unknown (0.30)] All That Jazz ⇒ Seven (the maker said so) · lineage · A host recalls a Fincher film the show covered where he cited All That Jazz as an inspiration for the look, maybe Seven. · "where he cited how much of an inspiration all that jazz was for him for the look of the movie?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:22:36 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Vinyl ↔ A Clockwork Orange · lineage · The speakers note there is an unwatchable Warhol version of this same book. · "Well, of course, you know, you mentioned Warhol, but of course there's the unwatchable Warhol version of this book."
[Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:14:36 · David Sims (0.40)] All That Jazz ⇒ Cold Hearted (Paula Abdul video) (the host's read) · lineage · A host reads that Cold Hearted was inspired by All That Jazz, and another says it directly references it. · "this film was uh, inspired by all that jazz, her belly button's exposed."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:28:51 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Her Smell (the maker said so: Alex Ross Perry, the writer of Her Smell, speaking on this episode) · lineage · The speaker says the film's five-act structure was a huge inspiration while writing Her Smell. · "This movie, I think, and this was a huge inspiration in when I was writing her smell."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:47:02 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · Strangelove, 2001, and this film are the clearest examples of his theme of technology that hastens man's downfall. · "Dr. Strangelove in 2001. And this movie are very literal examples of that, of that theme for sure."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:48:11 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · The Ludovico technique takes the technology theme and makes it the main course. · "And the Ludovico technique in this movie is just that writ large, which is why I love this movie so much"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:50:39 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · HAL's human error is read alongside the Ludovico technique as the flaw that is always there. · "What's the human error in the Ludovico technique."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[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] Julie Klausner · latest sketch, Blank Check · Star 80 · A serious Fosse devotee who loves Cabaret, All That Jazz, Sweet Charity and Liza with a Z, and praises collaborations with women. She finds Star 80 powerful but ugly, a prurient pornographic film made by a man who will not look at the victim, and she is haunted by it. · stances: Star 80 is powerful but not great and not fabulous; It sexualizes violence against Stratton with no female point of view; Judge creative men by how they collaborate with women; Sweet Charity ranks above Star 80; Cabaret's restraint with Liza shows Fosse's best instincts
[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'

The shows' running bits (2)

[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)

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 Star 80 (1983) 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 Star 80 (1983) 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 · 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."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:02:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Boogie Nights · theme · Star 80 produces the same turn-it-off discomfort as the firecracker scene in Boogie Nights. · "Combined with the firework, the firecracker scene in boogie nights."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:07:34 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Anatomy of a Murder · theme · Concern for the ruined man instead of the woman echoes Anatomy of a Murder's rape-trial rhetoric. · "That reminds me of an anatomy of murder when they're prosecuting the, they're like, let's think about ruining a man's life before we convict this person of rape"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:33:34 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · Kael's charge that Clockwork Orange was prurient and pitied only Alex is applied to Star 80 and Snyder. · "I think the only sympathy that you see from the filmmaker is with Paul Snyder."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:16:03 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ Kate Plays Christine · theme · Kate Plays Christine is cited as a film about the compulsion to tell tragic victims' stories and play them. · "it is a movie about an actor trying to play a tragic, you know, a person who killed herself on news."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:23:50 · David Sims (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ Cabaret · theme · Fosse's female characters like Sally Bowles and Honey Bruce got rich interior life, which Star 80 lacks. · "I would even argue, honey, Bruce, like, you know, who really is, like, pretty wonderful."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:28:09 · unknown (0.30)] Star 80 ↔ Peeping Tom · theme · Peeping Tom was also savaged on release but was later vindicated, unlike Star 80. · "Except Peeping Tom is like eventually kind of vindicated and this people were like, no, fuck you."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:32:03 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lenny ⇒ Star 80 (the host's read) · craft · Star 80's interview framing/superstructure echoes Lenny's, and Lenny is the origin of the Chevy-Chase-style voice. · "This movie, you have the interview, this sort of superstructure that he loves so much"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:44:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Body Double · contrast · Body Double is pulp that deals with similar Hollywood grime and is fun, whereas Fosse could not treat it as pulp. · "But like, I mean, fossi, for better or worse, I don't think could view things as pulp."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:16:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ All That Jazz · career · Star 80 came about because Fosse had no planned follow-up after surviving the film in which he dies. · "I think he was almost embarrassed to still be alive after all that jazz."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:20:33 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ The Ward · career · Both are final films that dim a director's career, though The Ward is less toxic. · "a film that is a bummer on a career, which on what?"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:01:44 · Julie Klausner (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ Joker · people · A great performance in a harrowing role is called career-ruinous in the way people overstate Joker typecasting. · "I think it's an incredible performance, but I think it's the kind of performance that's like ruinous for a career."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:52:10 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Sweet Charity ↔ Star 80 · verdict · A lumpy joyful film is ranked above the powerful but hateful one. · "sweet charity is a lumpy movie that brings me joy versus star 80, a film that just makes me think very deeply about everything I hate about the world."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:40:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ The Big Chill · industry · The Big Chill was number one the week Star 80 opened in limited release. · "Number one of the box office is a generational classic."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:33:58 · David Sims (0.40)] Sweet Charity ⇒ Star 80 (the host's read) · technique · Fosse's choreographic insert/isolation technique reappears in Star 80, applied to ugly material. · "There's even the, I mean, the whole fossy isolation of the body parts thing, right?"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:44:14 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Body Double · timeline · Melanie Griffith was Fosse's first choice; Body Double (her comeback) came right after. · "Bob Fossey wants Melanie Griffith."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:56:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Manhattan · same phenomenon · Both star Hemingway and are about older men fixated on young women, one romanticized and one murderous. · "2 movies that are essentially about the same basic phenomenon, but in very, very different ways"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:07:33 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ American Psycho · counterexample · American Psycho, made by a team with female voices, succeeds as critique where Star 80 lacks her point of view. · "American psycho has 2 female voices behind it and is therefore such an insightful and even funny critique"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:20:59 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ All That Jazz · sibling pair · All That Jazz is who Fosse wanted to be, Star 80 is where he really is. · "that all that jazz was sort of like who we wanted to be and maybe Star 80 was saying, well, this is where I really am."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 2:00:09 · Julie Klausner (0.60)] Star 80 ↔ A Clockwork Orange · series handoff · Julie asks them to remember Star 80 when covering Kubrick's rape depiction. · "Think about, you know, how, you know, people say rape isn't about sex, unless you shoot it real sexy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:53:35 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Star 80 · violence compared · Fincher mentions Star 80 in the same breath. · "I holy respect straw dogs or even star 80."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:52:19 · host (Griffin Newman or David Sims, unattributed) (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ Sven Nykvist · craft · Fosse brought in the European master Nykvist to shoot Star 80 rather than his usual cinematographer. · "Like, so it's Fosse working with a great cinematographer, but not someone he knows."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:53:21 · host (Griffin Newman or David Sims, unattributed) (0.40)] Ralph Burns ↔ Star 80 · craft · Burns scored Star 80 with two stings, one a creeping-dread cue that the speaker finds upsetting even isolated. · "There's that... Well, then there's the creeping, like, dread, you know... Whenever that that truly makes my skin crawl whenever that plays."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:53:54 · host (Griffin Newman or David Sims, unattributed) (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ Billy Joel · verdict · The pop-song needle drops (Billy Joel at the prom and the rest) are judged the worst soundtrack from a great filmmaker. · "The worst. Just the way you are."
[pairs] Star 80 ↔ A Clockwork Orange · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Star 80 ↔ All That Jazz · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Star 80 ↔ Sweet Charity · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Star 80 ↔ Body Double · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:05:34 · unknown (0.40)] Star 80 · fun · The soundtrack is a Jock Jams pile: Billy Joel's Just the Way You Are, YMCA, Do You Think I'm Sexy, Sing Sing Sing, Steppenwolf, played at the prom. · "One of the worst soundtracks from the best filmmakers."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:30:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 · fun · Fosse had his location scout break into the real murder house without a permit to recreate the carpet and details. · "he made the location scout break into the murder home without a permit and, uh, you know, take pictures"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:50:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 · fun · Fosse phoned Cliff Robertson mid-shoot, saying he did not want to get to the murder and did not want to see these people die. · "he's going to kill her and I don't know how to stop him."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:54:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 · fun · Roger Ebert liked it and called Roberts's performance the year's best; Hefner hated the intercutting of the photo sessions with the murder. · "Hugh Hefner thought it was disgusting the way it linked sex to violence."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:02:28 · unknown (0.30)] Star 80 · fun · Prom scene: Snyder stabs a football player in the butt with the filing end of a nail clipper in revenge for how he treated Stratton. · "The filing end of a nail clipper."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:43:02 · unknown (0.35)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Fight Club · programming · Fight Club is called the Clockwork Orange of another generation, an Edge Lord pick. · "This is kind of the clockwork Orange for another generation."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:30:05 · David Sims (0.40)] All That Jazz ↔ 8½ · lineage · All That Jazz is 8 1/2 adjacent and Nine adapted 8 1/2 as a musical. · "All that jazz is so 8.5 adjacent."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:07:36 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Body Double ⇒ American Psycho (the host's read) · lineage · American Psycho is described as the Reductress version of Body Double. · "it's almost like the, the, you know, reductress version of, um, body double in a way."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:29:57 · unknown (0.30)] Sweet Charity ↔ Big Deal on Madonna Street · lineage · Fosse repeatedly adapted Italian films into musicals (Sweet Charity from Fellini, Big Deal from Madonna Street). · "Adapting fucking Italian."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:07:36 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Body Double ⇒ American Psycho (the host's read) · lineage · American Psycho is described as the Reductress version of Body Double. · "it's almost like the, the, you know, reductress version of, um, body double in a way."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:22:08 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · The contrapuntal needle drop descends from Singin' in the Rain in Clockwork Orange and Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs. · "all the way back to singing in the rain in Clockwork Orange or stuck in the middle with you in, in, in, in Reservoir dogs."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:53:45 · unknown (0.40)] All That Jazz ⇒ David Fincher (the maker said so) · lineage · The speaker says Fincher loves Fosse and always cites All That Jazz. · "All that jazz is like a recurring influence."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:16:12 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ American Psycho · theme · Silver's rage is the 80s American Psycho kind. · "pours all of his 80s American psycho rage into it"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:20:24 · unknown (0.30)] Anthony Burgess ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Burgess's novel, and Kubrick found he had to change very little. · "Kubrick reads the book and is like, I didn't have to do much."
[Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:13:07 · unknown (0.30)] All That Jazz ⇒ Seven (the maker said so) · lineage · A host recalls a Fincher film the show covered where he cited All That Jazz as an inspiration for the look, maybe Seven. · "where he cited how much of an inspiration all that jazz was for him for the look of the movie?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:22:36 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Vinyl ↔ A Clockwork Orange · lineage · The speakers note there is an unwatchable Warhol version of this same book. · "Well, of course, you know, you mentioned Warhol, but of course there's the unwatchable Warhol version of this book."
[Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:14:36 · David Sims (0.40)] All That Jazz ⇒ Cold Hearted (Paula Abdul video) (the host's read) · lineage · A host reads that Cold Hearted was inspired by All That Jazz, and another says it directly references it. · "this film was uh, inspired by all that jazz, her belly button's exposed."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:28:51 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Her Smell (the maker said so: Alex Ross Perry, the writer of Her Smell, speaking on this episode) · lineage · The speaker says the film's five-act structure was a huge inspiration while writing Her Smell. · "This movie, I think, and this was a huge inspiration in when I was writing her smell."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:47:02 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · Strangelove, 2001, and this film are the clearest examples of his theme of technology that hastens man's downfall. · "Dr. Strangelove in 2001. And this movie are very literal examples of that, of that theme for sure."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:48:11 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · The Ludovico technique takes the technology theme and makes it the main course. · "And the Ludovico technique in this movie is just that writ large, which is why I love this movie so much"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:50:39 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · HAL's human error is read alongside the Ludovico technique as the flaw that is always there. · "What's the human error in the Ludovico technique."
[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] Julie Klausner · latest sketch, Blank Check · Star 80 · A serious Fosse devotee who loves Cabaret, All That Jazz, Sweet Charity and Liza with a Z, and praises collaborations with women. She finds Star 80 powerful but ugly, a prurient pornographic film made by a man who will not look at the victim, and she is haunted by it. · stances: Star 80 is powerful but not great and not fabulous; It sexualizes violence against Stratton with no female point of view; Judge creative men by how they collaborate with women; Sweet Charity ranks above Star 80; Cabaret's restraint with Liza shows Fosse's best instincts
[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'
[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 Star 80 (1983); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Star 80 (1983) 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.