What the corpus says about 8½ (1963)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished 8½ (1963) 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 8½ (1963) 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 · 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 — 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 · 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 · 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."
[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] 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 8½ (1963); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend 8½ (1963) 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.