What the corpus says about Heaven's Gate (1980)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Heaven's Gate (1980) 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 Heaven's Gate (1980) 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 · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:02:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Heaven's Gate · production scale · The $250M-ish Jack Fisk-built world is defended against studio cost-cutting, with Heaven's Gate as a nod. · "you don't need $250000000 Jack Fisk production design. You don't like it is like heaven's gate"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:18:24 · unknown (0.30)] Michael Cimino ↔ Heaven's Gate · programming · Cimino was seeded second because Heaven's Gate is such a famed blank checker; his loss to Brooks was a surprise. · "I had Chamino as the 2 because I think Heaven's Gate is such a famed blank checker"
[Blank Check · Fearless · 0:39:03 · unknown (0.30)] Jeff Bridges ↔ Heaven's Gate · career · Heaven's Gate did not hurt Bridges because he was not a major part of it. · "He's not even a big part of that movie."
[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"
[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."
[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"
[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."
[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."
[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."
[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."
[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"
[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)

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 Heaven's Gate (1980); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Heaven's Gate (1980) 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.