What the corpus says about The Handmaiden (2016)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Handmaiden (2016) 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 The Handmaiden (2016) 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 · Decision to Leave · 1:49:21 · David Sims (0.50)] Decision to Leave ↔ The Handmaiden · craft · Decision to Leave is more restrained than The Handmaiden but still has wild camera moves. · "I guess he means more restrained than the Handmaiden."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:34:36 · David Sims (0.40)] The Handmaiden ↔ Stoker · career · Handmaiden was partly Amazon-funded, so after Stoker and Drummer Girl the Hollywood door was open for Park. · "Right, and Handmaiden is Korean film, obviously, but that was partly funded, I think, by Amazon, right?"
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:57:20 · David Sims (0.60)] Decision to Leave ↔ The Handmaiden · career · Handmaiden was the last Park film several of them had seen before this one; Griffin ranks it his number one. · "I haven't seen a Park John Rook film since The Handmaiden, which blew my mind."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:45:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Decision to Leave ↔ The Handmaiden · people · Sean says The Handmaiden was the first Park movie he liked in a long time, then Decision to Leave was the next. · "It was like the 1st park movie I'd liked in a while."
[pairs] The Handmaiden ↔ Decision to Leave · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:35:35 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Mist (1967 Korean hit song) ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so) · lineage · Park loved the 1967 song The Mist since childhood and the movie is built around it and the lady-in-the-mist idea. · "A Korean 1967 hit song called The Miss. Yeah. which is about a protagonist who's trying to understand the world around them."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:37:24 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Martin Beck novels (Swedish) ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so) · lineage · The anti-macho gentleman cop concept comes from Martin Beck, the Swedish police novels, falling for the lady from the mist. · "So basically, what if Martin Beck, this Swedish police officer character falls in love with, like the lady from the Mist, sort of, right?"
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:52:23 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Decision to Leave ↔ Vertigo · lineage · Park says interviewers always ask about Vertigo but it was not his conscious influence. · "He says, I think everyone basically is interviewing him being like, is this like a vertigo thing?"
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:52:37 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Brief Encounter ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so: Park's interview remarks read on the show) · lineage · Park cites David Lean's Brief Encounter as the romantic vibe he was thinking of instead of Vertigo. · "He says, brief encounter, the David Lean film. is more what he's thinking of in terms of vibe."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:20:56 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Decision to Leave ↔ Insomnia · lineage · A sleepless cop is called part of the sleepy-cop canon, with Pacino's Insomnia as the reference. · "But this movie is in the detective dormer canon of sleepy cops who can't go to sleep."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:18:21 · Tatiana Maslany (0.50)] Tang Wei ↔ Decision to Leave · theme · Her performance plays against the femme fatale type by being honest and disarming rather than mysterious. · "Totally. Like, I don't... What's weird is that she's not acting like a femme fatale."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:45:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Decision to Leave ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Sean likens Decision to Leave to Park's version of Basic Instinct, a perfectly directed little romantic noir. · "I liked this one as like his basic instinct, you know, like, this is a perfectly directed little romantic noir."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:14:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Decision to Leave ↔ RoboCop · craft · The husband's cartoon fall off the mountain is compared to the Dick Jones stop-motion fall at the end of Robocop. · "He does like a like a end of Robocop Dick Jones fall, basically."
[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)

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 The Handmaiden (2016); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Handmaiden (2016) 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.