What the corpus says about Eraserhead (1977)

The 60 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 (26)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:21 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · The gooey animatronic creature work in Alien and later films may trace back to Eraserhead. · "I mean, the thought that comes to mind is, um, alien."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:47 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ The Thing (the host's read) · lineage · Alien, Carpenter's The Thing and Cronenberg's work belong to a 70s-80s peak of gooey rubber and robotics that Eraserhead may have first synthesized. · "We don't exactly know, but I feel like things like alien and the carpenter film, certainly the thing."
  3. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:17:19 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Eraserhead · theme · Orb imagery in Part 8 is traced to Lynch's earlier orb imagery such as Eraserhead. · "Sure, there's like eraser heads. Right, things like that."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:25:28 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ The Cremaster Cycle · theme · At 14 the speaker took Eraserhead for something as hermetic as the Cremaster Cycle, though it is actually coherent. · "No, when I was 14, I processed this as if it was the cremaster cycle."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:47:50 · David Lynch (0.50)] Eraserhead ↔ The Philadelphia Story · theme · Lynch calls Eraserhead his Philadelphia story, minus Jimmy Stewart. · "It just doesn't have Jimmy Stewart in it."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:24:47 · unknown (0.35)] Eraserhead ↔ Blue Velvet · theme · Both films come from Lynch's formative sense of darkness under the surface of suburbia and the unspoken, city life, women and fatherhood. · "Eraserhead is clearly dealing with the same things, the idea of people living in a city, but also the relationships, like, with women, adult sexuality, being a father"
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:26:57 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Pleasantville · theme · A deadpan Lynchian-sounding plot summary of Pleasantville prompted the comparison; Pleasantville is praised but called too on the nose. · "That movie is, I think, incredibly good."
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:28:24 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Old Dogs · theme · Suddenly discovering a child you didn't know about is the existential terror Old Dogs is built on, and Eraserhead has it too. · "Of course, the kind of existential terror that an entire movie, like old dogs is built off of times two."
  9. [Blank Check · Dune · 1:07:04 · unknown (0.35)] The Elephant Man ↔ Eraserhead · craft · Both are movies about sensitive weirdos in arch black and white. · "he's made two, like, movies about sensitive weirdos and the pain of existing in society that are shot in like very arch black and white."
  10. [Blank Check · Dune · 2:39:02 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Eraserhead ↔ The Elephant Man · craft · Both films carry a sound designer credit for David Lynch. · "It is sound designed by David Lynch. Which makes sense."
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:24:11 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Martin · craft · Eraserhead is impeccably shot, while Romero's Martin, shot on 16mm reversal, only gets the best scan of a rough image. · "It's on a 4K disk, but like you're basically looking at the most high quality scan of a terrible raw image versus this movie is like impeccably shocked."
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:49:25 · unknown (0.35)] Eraserhead ↔ Following · craft · Nolan's debut was made like Eraserhead, piecemeal with day-job actors, and Lynch became a guy for people with limited resources. · "made his film in a similar way, and I don't know if he's ever cited Lynch being the inspiration"
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:15:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Eraserhead ↔ Twin Peaks · craft · Lynch still relates emotions through images the way Eraserhead does, which the speaker saw again in Twin Peaks: The Return. · "He's still doing this stuff."
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:23:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Eraserhead ↔ Twin Peaks · craft · The apartment's repeated floor patterns and curtain staging resemble the red room in Twin Peaks. · "the styling of this building is very similar to a lot of the red room stuff in Twin Peaks"
  15. [Blank Check · Dune · 1:08:39 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Eraserhead ↔ The Elephant Man · contrast · Dino wanted Elephant Man Lynch, not Eraserhead Lynch, though they share a lot. · "But he's sort of saying like, I want the elephant man lynch, not eraser head lynch."
  16. [Blank Check · Dune · 2:39:15 · David Sims (0.50)] Dune ↔ Eraserhead · contrast · Lynch is credited as sound designer on Eraserhead and The Elephant Man but not on Dune. · "Not Dune."
  17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:10:05 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Mad Max · contrast · Mad Max is a debut where the director had all the tools right away, though not called a masterpiece, unlike Eraserhead which is. · "Like that, that's where it's just like, yes, he had all the tools right away."
  18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:10:19 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Piranha II: The Spawning · contrast · Piranha II is a classic rough-draft debut, unlike Eraserhead. · "That's a classic rough draft."
  19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:10:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Eraserhead ↔ Thief · contrast · Thief is an example of a debut where the director arrives fully formed, in the same bucket as Eraserhead. · "But I'm like, thief, guy arrives fully formed."
  20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:11:48 · unknown (0.30)] The Parent Trap ↔ Eraserhead · contrast · Parent Trap is argued as a masterpiece on the debut list, though the other host calls it merely good and Nancy Meyers' easiest film to dub a masterpiece. · "Easiest film to dub a masterpiece."
  21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:13:22 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Dark Star · contrast · Dark Star is hard to place: important, but arguably a rough draft. · "I think Dark Star, you could call a rough draft even though it..."
  22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:14:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Eraserhead ↔ Dances with Wolves · contrast · Dances with Wolves is argued to be a rough draft of what Costner figured out later despite winning Best Picture. · "this is a rough draft for what he fucking figured out later, even though the world responded to it at the time as masterpiece."
  23. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:15:11 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Shallow Grave · contrast · Shallow Grave sits in a middle bucket. · "That's a 3rd bucket."
  24. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:15:26 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Alien 3 · contrast · Alien 3 resists categorizing because of its complicated production. · "I think it's got to be a middle bucket just because of how complicated the birthing process."
  25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:26:19 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Eraserhead ↔ Edward Scissorhands · contrast · Eraserhead is the same outsider idea as Edward Scissorhands in raw form, where Burton's film was reworked into a presentable studio picture. · "And this is him just doing the pure raw expression version of basically the same idea."
  26. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:31:35 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ The Elephant Man · contrast · The Elephant Man is a deeply tragic, not funny film, unlike Eraserhead. · "Watching the elephant man's a deeply trapped film. It's quite beautiful, but it's not really funny."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

  1. [pairs] Eraserhead ↔ The Elephant Man · said 4 times in 2 episodes
  2. [pairs] Eraserhead ↔ Twin Peaks · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:17:38 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead · fun · Lynch sold the DVD himself off the Absurda website; it arrived in a weird square box with a loose sleeve. · "Lynch sold it himself off of the Absurda website, and it came in a weirdly shaped box."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:18:05 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead · fun · TLA Video, a Philadelphia chain, had a Lynch shelf; Eraserhead was the VHS movie the cool older teens had seen. · "They had a lynch shelf."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:48:39 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead · fun · The 21-page script read like a short, so Lynch snuck a long shoot past the AFI. · "He kind of snuck it past people in a way."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:50:03 · David Sims (0.50)] Eraserhead · fun · Shot on weekends over years, the production cost Lynch his first marriage within the first year. · "So his 1st marriage does not survive the 1st year production on Eraserhead."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:51:26 · David Sims (0.50)] Eraserhead · fun · A financier friend of Malick watched scenes, stood up trembling and screamed that people don't act like that. · "People don't talk like that."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:52:56 · David Sims (0.50)] Eraserhead · fun · Lynch told Nance to play Henry as a blank; the more expression emptied out, the closer they got. · "The more you can empty out the closer we're getting."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (20)

  1. [Blank Check · Dune · 2:10:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] David Lynch ↔ The Elephant Man · craft · Lynch planned to do the Elephant Man makeup effects himself, as he had on Eraserhead, until the production insisted on a professional. · "Like his plan was to do the makeup effects entirely himself because he was used to working that way on Elephant Man, or not Elephant Man, Eraserhead."
  2. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:34:19 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks ⇒ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 (the host's read) · theme · Part 8 finally ties up Jean Renault's season 2 claim that Cooper's arrival ruined Twin Peaks by showing the evil predates him. · "So like episode eight, finally, it's like we've tied up the genre now plotline from season two."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:51:40 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · Chainsaw is what inspired Ridley Scott to make Alien. · "Texas Chainsaw Basker is what inspired Ridley Scott to make alien."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:35:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien 3 ↔ Resident Evil · programming · Resident Evil should not be programmed next to Alien; wait for in-person sessions. · "Also, you can't put it next to Alien because Resident Evil does, well, not, that will not be good for Resident Evil."
  5. [Blank Check · Dune · 3:02:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Dune ↔ Blue Velvet · programming · Next week's episode is Blue Velvet with Jamie Loftus. · "Tune in next week for Blue Velvet with Jamie Loftus?"
  6. [The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:38:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Lemon ↔ Twin Peaks · theme · Sean sees a commonality of tone between Lemon and Twin Peaks; the guests take it as a compliment. · "There is a little bit of a commonality between Lemon and Twin Peaks."
  7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:56 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Alien ⇒ Species (the maker said so) · lineage · Giger thought Species ripped off too many other alien movies, such as the chest-burster. · "He thought the movie ripped off too many other alien movies"
  8. [The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:59:46 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] David Fincher ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 is the primal scene of Fincher's chip on his shoulder, producers treating him like a shoe salesman. · "there's the chip on the shoulder and the primal scene of alien 3, right?"
  9. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:41:57 · Connor Ratliff (0.50)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Blue Velvet · lineage · The teen walking-and-talking scenes in the last 15 minutes recall Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern strolling in Blue Velvet, with Dern looking like she is from another decade. · "I always feel like the scenes where they're walking and talking remind me of the scenes of of com McLachlan, Lord Dern walking in blue velvet, that sort of innocent conversation."
  10. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 2:15:39 · Connor Ratliff (0.80)] Angelo Badalamenti ↔ Twin Peaks · craft · Connor says Badalamenti's jazzy music made even the weakest season 2 scenes feel like Twin Peaks and watchable. · "he made even the lowest points of season 2 feel like Twin Peaks and feel watchable because his music was always there"
  11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:27:04 · Joanna Robinson (0.60)] Sigourney Weaver ↔ Alien · lineage · Both the Working Girl role and the Alien role were originally written for a man. · "the screenwriter said that her role was originally written as a man, which is true for her role in alien as well."
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
  13. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 2:17:13 · Connor Ratliff (0.70)] On the Air ↔ Twin Peaks · craft · The Twin Peaks Archive of Badalamenti cues even includes music written for On the Air, tying Lynch and Frost's sitcom to the Twin Peaks score material. · "it's the Twinby's archive is so full that it even includes music that was written for on the air."
  14. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:47:57 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · Ripley stripped to underwear at the end is a vulnerability beat that Miasma echoes. · "Yes, it is echoed in Teenage Tech"
  15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills. · "you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created."
  16. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 2:19:19 · Connor Ratliff (0.70)] Twin Peaks: The Return (season 3, parts 1-7 and beyond) ↔ Twin Peaks · craft · Laura's theme returning in the Return after being held back lands as a hammer blow, tying it to the original series' music. · "Laura's theme hits for the 1st time is such a kind of hammer blow because they've been holding that music back for most of the series."
  17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:50:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Alien ⇒ Aliens (the host's read) · lineage · Cameron's sequel to Ridley Scott's film shifted the genre, which raised expectations for any follow-up. · "some other fucking guy is coming in and making a sequel to Ridley Scott's movie."
  18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:56:20 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] David Twohy ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Twohy brought the prison-planet concept into the development. · "Twowey is the one who brings in the prison planet concept, okay?"
  19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:16:07 · unknown (0.30)] Danny McBride ↔ Alien · lineage · McBride is also a return to Harry Dean Stanton: someone with the wrong energy for a sci-fi movie. · "McBride's also trying to sort of get back to a Harry Dean Stanton, kind of."
  20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:18:07 · Matt Singer (0.35)] Psycho ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Charles Dance's shower-curtain death is read as Fincher's own 'Hitchcock moment', after a cast member said Fincher called it that; the Psycho identification is the speaker's. · "Fincher would talk to him about his influence and be like, well, this is my Hitchcock moment."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

  1. [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
  2. [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'
  3. [speaker] David Lynch · no sketch

The shows' running bits (3)

  1. [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)
  2. [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)
  3. [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)

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 Eraserhead (1977) 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 Eraserhead (1977) 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 — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:21 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · The gooey animatronic creature work in Alien and later films may trace back to Eraserhead. · "I mean, the thought that comes to mind is, um, alien."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:47 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ The Thing (the host's read) · lineage · Alien, Carpenter's The Thing and Cronenberg's work belong to a 70s-80s peak of gooey rubber and robotics that Eraserhead may have first synthesized. · "We don't exactly know, but I feel like things like alien and the carpenter film, certainly the thing."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:17:19 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Eraserhead · theme · Orb imagery in Part 8 is traced to Lynch's earlier orb imagery such as Eraserhead. · "Sure, there's like eraser heads. Right, things like that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:25:28 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ The Cremaster Cycle · theme · At 14 the speaker took Eraserhead for something as hermetic as the Cremaster Cycle, though it is actually coherent. · "No, when I was 14, I processed this as if it was the cremaster cycle."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:47:50 · David Lynch (0.50)] Eraserhead ↔ The Philadelphia Story · theme · Lynch calls Eraserhead his Philadelphia story, minus Jimmy Stewart. · "It just doesn't have Jimmy Stewart in it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:24:47 · unknown (0.35)] Eraserhead ↔ Blue Velvet · theme · Both films come from Lynch's formative sense of darkness under the surface of suburbia and the unspoken, city life, women and fatherhood. · "Eraserhead is clearly dealing with the same things, the idea of people living in a city, but also the relationships, like, with women, adult sexuality, being a father"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:26:57 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Pleasantville · theme · A deadpan Lynchian-sounding plot summary of Pleasantville prompted the comparison; Pleasantville is praised but called too on the nose. · "That movie is, I think, incredibly good."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:28:24 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Old Dogs · theme · Suddenly discovering a child you didn't know about is the existential terror Old Dogs is built on, and Eraserhead has it too. · "Of course, the kind of existential terror that an entire movie, like old dogs is built off of times two."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:07:04 · unknown (0.35)] The Elephant Man ↔ Eraserhead · craft · Both are movies about sensitive weirdos in arch black and white. · "he's made two, like, movies about sensitive weirdos and the pain of existing in society that are shot in like very arch black and white."
[Blank Check · Dune · 2:39:02 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Eraserhead ↔ The Elephant Man · craft · Both films carry a sound designer credit for David Lynch. · "It is sound designed by David Lynch. Which makes sense."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:24:11 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Martin · craft · Eraserhead is impeccably shot, while Romero's Martin, shot on 16mm reversal, only gets the best scan of a rough image. · "It's on a 4K disk, but like you're basically looking at the most high quality scan of a terrible raw image versus this movie is like impeccably shocked."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:49:25 · unknown (0.35)] Eraserhead ↔ Following · craft · Nolan's debut was made like Eraserhead, piecemeal with day-job actors, and Lynch became a guy for people with limited resources. · "made his film in a similar way, and I don't know if he's ever cited Lynch being the inspiration"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:15:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Eraserhead ↔ Twin Peaks · craft · Lynch still relates emotions through images the way Eraserhead does, which the speaker saw again in Twin Peaks: The Return. · "He's still doing this stuff."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:23:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Eraserhead ↔ Twin Peaks · craft · The apartment's repeated floor patterns and curtain staging resemble the red room in Twin Peaks. · "the styling of this building is very similar to a lot of the red room stuff in Twin Peaks"
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:08:39 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Eraserhead ↔ The Elephant Man · contrast · Dino wanted Elephant Man Lynch, not Eraserhead Lynch, though they share a lot. · "But he's sort of saying like, I want the elephant man lynch, not eraser head lynch."
[Blank Check · Dune · 2:39:15 · David Sims (0.50)] Dune ↔ Eraserhead · contrast · Lynch is credited as sound designer on Eraserhead and The Elephant Man but not on Dune. · "Not Dune."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:10:05 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Mad Max · contrast · Mad Max is a debut where the director had all the tools right away, though not called a masterpiece, unlike Eraserhead which is. · "Like that, that's where it's just like, yes, he had all the tools right away."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:10:19 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Piranha II: The Spawning · contrast · Piranha II is a classic rough-draft debut, unlike Eraserhead. · "That's a classic rough draft."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:10:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Eraserhead ↔ Thief · contrast · Thief is an example of a debut where the director arrives fully formed, in the same bucket as Eraserhead. · "But I'm like, thief, guy arrives fully formed."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:11:48 · unknown (0.30)] The Parent Trap ↔ Eraserhead · contrast · Parent Trap is argued as a masterpiece on the debut list, though the other host calls it merely good and Nancy Meyers' easiest film to dub a masterpiece. · "Easiest film to dub a masterpiece."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:13:22 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Dark Star · contrast · Dark Star is hard to place: important, but arguably a rough draft. · "I think Dark Star, you could call a rough draft even though it..."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:14:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Eraserhead ↔ Dances with Wolves · contrast · Dances with Wolves is argued to be a rough draft of what Costner figured out later despite winning Best Picture. · "this is a rough draft for what he fucking figured out later, even though the world responded to it at the time as masterpiece."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:15:11 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Shallow Grave · contrast · Shallow Grave sits in a middle bucket. · "That's a 3rd bucket."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:15:26 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Alien 3 · contrast · Alien 3 resists categorizing because of its complicated production. · "I think it's got to be a middle bucket just because of how complicated the birthing process."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:26:19 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Eraserhead ↔ Edward Scissorhands · contrast · Eraserhead is the same outsider idea as Edward Scissorhands in raw form, where Burton's film was reworked into a presentable studio picture. · "And this is him just doing the pure raw expression version of basically the same idea."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:31:35 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ The Elephant Man · contrast · The Elephant Man is a deeply tragic, not funny film, unlike Eraserhead. · "Watching the elephant man's a deeply trapped film. It's quite beautiful, but it's not really funny."
[pairs] Eraserhead ↔ The Elephant Man · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Eraserhead ↔ Twin Peaks · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:17:38 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead · fun · Lynch sold the DVD himself off the Absurda website; it arrived in a weird square box with a loose sleeve. · "Lynch sold it himself off of the Absurda website, and it came in a weirdly shaped box."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:18:05 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead · fun · TLA Video, a Philadelphia chain, had a Lynch shelf; Eraserhead was the VHS movie the cool older teens had seen. · "They had a lynch shelf."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:48:39 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead · fun · The 21-page script read like a short, so Lynch snuck a long shoot past the AFI. · "He kind of snuck it past people in a way."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:50:03 · David Sims (0.50)] Eraserhead · fun · Shot on weekends over years, the production cost Lynch his first marriage within the first year. · "So his 1st marriage does not survive the 1st year production on Eraserhead."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:51:26 · David Sims (0.50)] Eraserhead · fun · A financier friend of Malick watched scenes, stood up trembling and screamed that people don't act like that. · "People don't talk like that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:52:56 · David Sims (0.50)] Eraserhead · fun · Lynch told Nance to play Henry as a blank; the more expression emptied out, the closer they got. · "The more you can empty out the closer we're getting."
[Blank Check · Dune · 2:10:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] David Lynch ↔ The Elephant Man · craft · Lynch planned to do the Elephant Man makeup effects himself, as he had on Eraserhead, until the production insisted on a professional. · "Like his plan was to do the makeup effects entirely himself because he was used to working that way on Elephant Man, or not Elephant Man, Eraserhead."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:34:19 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks ⇒ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 (the host's read) · theme · Part 8 finally ties up Jean Renault's season 2 claim that Cooper's arrival ruined Twin Peaks by showing the evil predates him. · "So like episode eight, finally, it's like we've tied up the genre now plotline from season two."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:51:40 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · Chainsaw is what inspired Ridley Scott to make Alien. · "Texas Chainsaw Basker is what inspired Ridley Scott to make alien."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:35:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien 3 ↔ Resident Evil · programming · Resident Evil should not be programmed next to Alien; wait for in-person sessions. · "Also, you can't put it next to Alien because Resident Evil does, well, not, that will not be good for Resident Evil."
[Blank Check · Dune · 3:02:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Dune ↔ Blue Velvet · programming · Next week's episode is Blue Velvet with Jamie Loftus. · "Tune in next week for Blue Velvet with Jamie Loftus?"
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:38:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Lemon ↔ Twin Peaks · theme · Sean sees a commonality of tone between Lemon and Twin Peaks; the guests take it as a compliment. · "There is a little bit of a commonality between Lemon and Twin Peaks."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:56 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Alien ⇒ Species (the maker said so) · lineage · Giger thought Species ripped off too many other alien movies, such as the chest-burster. · "He thought the movie ripped off too many other alien movies"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:59:46 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] David Fincher ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 is the primal scene of Fincher's chip on his shoulder, producers treating him like a shoe salesman. · "there's the chip on the shoulder and the primal scene of alien 3, right?"
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:41:57 · Connor Ratliff (0.50)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Blue Velvet · lineage · The teen walking-and-talking scenes in the last 15 minutes recall Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern strolling in Blue Velvet, with Dern looking like she is from another decade. · "I always feel like the scenes where they're walking and talking remind me of the scenes of of com McLachlan, Lord Dern walking in blue velvet, that sort of innocent conversation."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 2:15:39 · Connor Ratliff (0.80)] Angelo Badalamenti ↔ Twin Peaks · craft · Connor says Badalamenti's jazzy music made even the weakest season 2 scenes feel like Twin Peaks and watchable. · "he made even the lowest points of season 2 feel like Twin Peaks and feel watchable because his music was always there"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:27:04 · Joanna Robinson (0.60)] Sigourney Weaver ↔ Alien · lineage · Both the Working Girl role and the Alien role were originally written for a man. · "the screenwriter said that her role was originally written as a man, which is true for her role in alien as well."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 2:17:13 · Connor Ratliff (0.70)] On the Air ↔ Twin Peaks · craft · The Twin Peaks Archive of Badalamenti cues even includes music written for On the Air, tying Lynch and Frost's sitcom to the Twin Peaks score material. · "it's the Twinby's archive is so full that it even includes music that was written for on the air."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:47:57 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · Ripley stripped to underwear at the end is a vulnerability beat that Miasma echoes. · "Yes, it is echoed in Teenage Tech"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills. · "you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 2:19:19 · Connor Ratliff (0.70)] Twin Peaks: The Return (season 3, parts 1-7 and beyond) ↔ Twin Peaks · craft · Laura's theme returning in the Return after being held back lands as a hammer blow, tying it to the original series' music. · "Laura's theme hits for the 1st time is such a kind of hammer blow because they've been holding that music back for most of the series."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:50:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Alien ⇒ Aliens (the host's read) · lineage · Cameron's sequel to Ridley Scott's film shifted the genre, which raised expectations for any follow-up. · "some other fucking guy is coming in and making a sequel to Ridley Scott's movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:56:20 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] David Twohy ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Twohy brought the prison-planet concept into the development. · "Twowey is the one who brings in the prison planet concept, okay?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:16:07 · unknown (0.30)] Danny McBride ↔ Alien · lineage · McBride is also a return to Harry Dean Stanton: someone with the wrong energy for a sci-fi movie. · "McBride's also trying to sort of get back to a Harry Dean Stanton, kind of."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:18:07 · Matt Singer (0.35)] Psycho ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Charles Dance's shower-curtain death is read as Fincher's own 'Hitchcock moment', after a cast member said Fincher called it that; the Psycho identification is the speaker's. · "Fincher would talk to him about his influence and be like, well, this is my Hitchcock moment."
[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] 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] David Lynch · no sketch
[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)
[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 Eraserhead (1977); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Eraserhead (1977) 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.