What the corpus says about Manhattan (1979)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Manhattan (1979) 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 Manhattan (1979) 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 Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:47:58 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Manhattan · contrast · Woody Allen's Manhattan is the polished version of New York against Brooklyn in this film. · "Annie Hall in Manhattan, the good version"
[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 — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:31:42 · David Sims (0.40)] Diane Keaton ↔ Manhattan · contrast · Keaton plays the off-putting-but-winning woman as in Manhattan, but here the humanity is missing. · "Like the thing that a movie like Manhattan is trying to unpack"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:41 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Saturday Night Fever · programming · Watching Rocky made Chris Ryan want to watch Saturday Night Fever as a double feature. · "This movie made me want to watch Saturday Night Fever for some reason."
[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’ · 0:51:04 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Dance Fever · programming · Kimmel adds Dance Fever, the syndicated dance show, as a thing that aged well from the film's influence. · "I was going to throw in Denny Terrio's Dance Fever show"
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:26:36 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Good Times · programming · Kimmel's live ABC recreation specials led to the Good Times mention. · "Oh, since we're talking about good times."
[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"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:17:23 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Nik Cohn ⇒ Saturday Night Fever (the host's read) · lineage · The film comes from a 1976 New York magazine article, later admitted to be mostly fabricated. · "this article written by Nick Cohen"
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:28:04 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · Ebert, read aloud, ties the film to Little Italy as Scorsese saw it in Mean Streets: characters with few aims and no way out. · "it reminds him of New York's Little Italy, as Martin Scorsese saw it"
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:50:19 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.50)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Airplane! (the host's read) · lineage · Airplane! parodies this film's romance scene three years later with Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty. · "The airplane parody scene."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:50:52 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Mad Magazine's Saturday Night Fever parody (the host's read) · lineage · Kimmel says he read the Mad parody before he saw the movie. · "I think maybe I probably read the parody of the movie before I saw the movie."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:17:52 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Staying Alive (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel; the hosts agree it is a bad one but Simmons is glad it exists and thinks it did not ruin the original. · "I'm glad it exists."
[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"
[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] 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] 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
[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 Manhattan (1979); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Manhattan (1979) 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.