Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)

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Wikidata Q1367548, film, IMDb tt0098724, TMDB 1412: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title; 1 more episode agrees.

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Came from

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Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Brian Koppelman: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. career (career): Sex, Lies, and Videotape ⇒ Brian Koppelman (the maker said so: Brian speaking about himself on the show). Seeing it sent Brian to independent movies and a new way of watching.
    “That what sent me to independent movies.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:23:23 · Brian Koppelman (0.90 sure it was them)

Connected to

Brian Koppelman: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Sex, Lies, and Videotape → Brian Koppelman. Seeing it sent Brian to independent movies and a new way of watching.
    “That what sent me to independent movies.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:23:23 · Brian Koppelman (0.90 sure it was them)

Brick: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Sex, Lies, and Videotape → Brick. Sex, Lies, and Videotape came out 17 or 18 years before Brick and felt like a different generation.
    “this is 17, 18 years later”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:34:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Do the Right Thing: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (same-summer): Do the Right Thing → Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Same summer of Batman and sex, lies, and videotape, which also did not make that much money.
    “Sex lives and videotape on its way, it didn't make that much money either.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:12:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

James Spader: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Sex, Lies, and Videotape → James Spader. Only Spader ever reached that level again.
    “Only Spaders ever touched the level of performance again.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:24:42 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them)

Margin Call: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Sex, Lies, and Videotape → Margin Call. Both depict a moment in time; Sex, Lies depicted its moment 30 years before.
    “30 years before the moment in time.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:25:11 · Brian Koppelman (0.70 sure it was them)

Peter Gallagher: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Peter Gallagher → Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Wesley says Gallagher is both corporate and dad, which is why he was good in Sex, Lies, and Videotape.
    “he's simultaneously so corporate and so dad.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:30:27 · Wesley Morris (0.70 sure it was them)

Reservoir Dogs: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Reservoir Dogs → Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Sex, Lies and Boys n the Hood are the two festival-born indie films that Reservoir Dogs continues.
    “indie-minded festival entries from young people who are going to basically take over Hollywood”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:02:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Steven Soderbergh: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Steven Soderbergh → Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Brian says Soderbergh's later obsessions and technical command are on display in the debut.
    “He's studying these obsessions that are going to define him for the next long period of time”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:26:16 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (career): Peter Gallagher → Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Wesley says Gallagher is both corporate and dad, which is why he was good in Sex, Lies, and Videotape.
    “he's simultaneously so corporate and so dad.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:30:27 · Wesley Morris (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Sex, Lies, and Videotape → Brian Koppelman. Seeing it sent Brian to independent movies and a new way of watching.
    “That what sent me to independent movies.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:23:23 · Brian Koppelman (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Steven Soderbergh → Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Brian says Soderbergh's later obsessions and technical command are on display in the debut.
    “He's studying these obsessions that are going to define him for the next long period of time”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:26:16 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Reservoir Dogs → Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Sex, Lies and Boys n the Hood are the two festival-born indie films that Reservoir Dogs continues.
    “indie-minded festival entries from young people who are going to basically take over Hollywood”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:02:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Sex, Lies, and Videotape → Brick. Sex, Lies, and Videotape came out 17 or 18 years before Brick and felt like a different generation.
    “this is 17, 18 years later”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:34:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Sex, Lies, and Videotape → James Spader. Only Spader ever reached that level again.
    “Only Spaders ever touched the level of performance again.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:24:42 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Sex, Lies, and Videotape → Margin Call. Both depict a moment in time; Sex, Lies depicted its moment 30 years before.
    “30 years before the moment in time.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:25:11 · Brian Koppelman (0.70 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (same-summer): Do the Right Thing → Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Same summer of Batman and sex, lies, and videotape, which also did not make that much money.
    “Sex lives and videotape on its way, it didn't make that much money either.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:12:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Sex, Lies, and Videotape: Brian saw the first post-Sundance New York screening at the Ziegfeld with no idea what to expect.
    “So this was the 1st screening after Sundance in New York once it was a thing.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:22:35 · Brian Koppelman (0.90 sure it was them)

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