What the corpus says about Michael Clayton (2007)

The 53 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 (9)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:23:21 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ Michael Clayton · theme · Simmons groups Margin Call with Michael Clayton, Shattered Glass and Moneyball as modern office thrillers. · "It's like an office thriller, almost."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:25:22 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Michael Clayton · theme · Both open on a protagonist already broken by past failure. · "It's the Michael Clayton thing I love of like, you start this movie with a character"
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 1:17:48 · unknown (0.30)] Michael Clayton ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · theme · Bill Harford is called in like the Michael Clayton of physicians to clean up rich people's messes. · "the Michael Clayton of physicians to clean up rich people's messes."
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:26:51 · Brian Koppelman (0.70)] Margin Call ↔ Michael Clayton · contrast · Michael Clayton has murder in it, Margin Call does not. · "Michael Clayton has murder in it."
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:07:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Ice Storm ↔ Michael Clayton · contrast · Michael Clayton has several standalone scenes you watch when it airs; The Ice Storm must be seen as a whole. · "The ice storm kind of needs to be seen as a total package."
  6. [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:45:19 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Miller's Crossing ↔ Michael Clayton · contrast · Gabriel Byrne plays an Irish mobster like a Michael Clayton figure. · "stars Gabriel Byrne as like kind of a Michael Clayton, Irish mobster"
  7. [The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:07:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Michael Clayton ↔ George Clooney · career · Michael Clayton was part of the hosts' recent George Clooney Hall of Fame run. · "Recently when we were doing the George Clooney Hall of Fame, I invited him to watch Michael Clayton with me"
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:48:12 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Tom Wilkinson ↔ Michael Clayton · career · Without Rush Hour there is no Michael Clayton. · "You don't get Michael Clayton."
  9. [The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:06:16 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Michael Clayton ↔ George Clooney · people · Clooney plays a lawyer at the end of the Bush years, near broke and compromised. · "Or Michael Clayton, starring George Clooney as a lawyer who, like so many other Americans, has arrived at the end of the bush years feeling near broke, beaten down, and highly compromised."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

  1. [pairs] Michael Clayton ↔ Margin Call · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (1)

  1. [The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:07:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Michael Clayton · fun · Amanda's husband Zach refuses to rewatch it with her, and instead reenacts it, yelling I am Shiva, the god of death about fourteen times. · "he did yell, I am Shiva, the god of death like 14 times."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (34)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:23:57 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · programming · Koppelman's double-feature picks are Wolf of Wall Street or Sweet Smell of Success. · "Either wolf of Wall Street or sweet smell of success."
  2. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:57:26 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Tom Cruise ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · programming · If Cruise would answer everything, the Rewatchables pick is Eyes Wide Shut. · "I would do eyes-wise shut."
  3. [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:45:04 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Chris Ryan ↔ Miller's Crossing · programming · Pick 6 (round 2), category drama: Favorite Coen movie most days; first one he saw. · "Miller's Crossing."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:16:06 · Fran Hoepfner (0.40)] The Girl in the Spider's Web ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · lineage · Spider's Web is the reboot after Fincher's film; the speaker finds it ill advised to abandon Mara. · "especially when the thing that everyone liked most about this movie was that performance and how quickly they abandoned it."
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:50:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Ice Storm ⇒ Swingtown (TV) (the host's read) · programming · Swingtown tried to tap the key party idea but belonged on Cinemax. · "That show has to be on Cinemax."
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:02 · Ryen Russillo (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Russillo's double-feature pick. · "Bright lights, big city."
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:13:57 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · programming · These two Kubrick films feel warm to the speaker compared with the rest. · "But Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut are the 2 that feel like they sort of cut through to me on a deeper level, where I feel genuine warmth and affection for them."
  8. [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:45:19 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Dashiell Hammett ⇒ Miller's Crossing (the host's read) · lineage · The film is a take on 1930s-40s fast-talking noir rooted in Hammett. · "unique take on, you know, 1930s and 40s fast talking noir movies, very much rooted in national Hammett"
  9. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:49:09 · unknown (0.30)] Stieg Larsson ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read) · lineage · The film is Zaillian's abridged adaptation of Larsson's novel, which loses nothing major. · "I think this is an excellent piece of adaptation that does not really, like, skip anything major."
  10. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:09:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Brokeback Mountain ↔ The Ice Storm · programming · Simmons eyes Brokeback Mountain as a contender for Fucked Up Family February 2023. · "Brokeback Mountain is definitely one of the contenders."
  11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:10 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Margin Call ↔ Wall Street · programming · Simmons chooses Wall Street as the best double feature, a fun mix that complements. · "I would go Wall Street."
  12. [The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:24:49 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Babygirl (the host's read) · lineage · The stoned late-night bedroom lecture after the rave echoes Eyes Wide Shut. · "Nice callback to eyes wide shut and lecturing Tom Cruise in the bedroom while stoned out of their minds."
  13. [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:29:27 · unknown (0.40)] King of New York ↔ Miller's Crossing · theme · 1990 was a year for Irish gangsters across King of New York, State of Grace, and Miller's Crossing. · "An incredible year for Irish gangsters between Chris Walken and King of New York and Miller's Crossing."
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:54:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read) · lineage · The Fincher film is the American remake of the Swedish original; its director says he was not worried. · "Everyone who loves film will go see the original."
  15. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:26:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ The Squid and the Whale · programming · Fennessey says Squid and the Whale was the biggest near-miss for Fucked Up Family February. · "I think was probably the biggest one that could have made it."
  16. [The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:21:59 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ⇒ Billions (the maker said so: Koppelman, Billions co-creator, on the show) · lineage · Koppelman says the borrowed lesson is that Margin Call does not speak down to the viewer. · "this movie doesn't speak down to the viewer"
  17. [The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.85)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) (the host's read) · lineage · Donald Glover's character describes the party as a Spike-directed reboot of Eyes Wide Shut. · "this is like a spikely directed reboot of eyes wide shut"
  18. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:02:09 · unknown (host) (0.30)] The Killer ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · craft · The speaker listened to the Dragon Tattoo score while reading the comic because The Killer score was not out. · "it's not out there, so I just listened Dragon Tattoo."
  19. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:27:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Next episodes will cover two famous movies; Ryan and Simmons tease Pulp Fiction. · "I've been watching a lot of pulp fiction lately."
  20. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Margin Call is in the finance-movie family that Wolf is the mothership of. · "This is, you know, the mothership."
  21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:04 · unknown (0.30)] Kirk Douglas ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the maker said so) · lineage · Kirk Douglas claims he handed Kubrick the novella during their Paths of Glory or Spartacus fights. · "Kirk Douglas claims he gave it to him during one of their like shared therapy sessions"
  22. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:52:03 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · craft · The Swedish version is a near one-to-one transposition with no act structure; Fincher's feels dramatic. · "the Swedish one is almost so one-to-one that it has no ax structure."
  23. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 1:07:49 · unknown (0.40)] Swingtown (TV) ↔ The Ice Storm · programming · CBS's Swingtown was a third of the way to interesting and watered the key-party era down. · "Wasn't that good, but it was sort of like a 3rd of the way to being interesting."
  24. [The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:09:43 · Brian Koppelman (0.65)] Oliver Stone ⇒ Margin Call (the maker said so: Brian speaking about his own writing) · lineage · Oliver Stone is as big an influence on Brian's dialogue as anybody but Mamet. · "Oliver Stone's big an influence on the way that I write dialogue as anybody but Mammoth."
  25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:21 · unknown (0.30)] Ruth Sobotka → Eyes Wide Shut · lineage · Others guess Kubrick's Austrian second wife may have given him the Austrian novel. · "Maybe she gave it to him."
  26. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:11:05 · unknown (0.30)] Sven Nykvist ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the maker said so) · craft · Someone on the shoot (Fincher, or the DP by the garbled name) wanted a Sven Nykvist look: warm fires, cold rooms. · "I wanted to do a whole Sven Nikfist thing"
  27. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:08:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Rick Moody's novel ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read) · lineage · Based on Rick Moody's 1994 book; the author cried at the end of a cut and said they got it. · "It's based on Rick Moody's 1994 book, who saw a cut of it and cried at the end and was like, my God, they got it."
  28. [The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:02:53 · Ryen Russillo (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ Liar's Poker · theme · Russillo links the movie's no-one-knows-what's-going-on feeling to Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker. · "I always think of that liar's poker effect from Michael Lewis"
  29. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:31 · unknown (0.30)] Arthur Schnitzler ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says the novel is very close to the film, so close that its plot beats are nearly one to one. · "And it is very similar to eyes wide shut."
  30. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:11:51 · unknown (0.30)] Lola Visual Effects ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · craft · Lola tracked a hair gap into reshot footage. · "So Lola, the special effects house, who's like one of the best, they do like all the de-aging, they're like top level."
  31. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:12:44 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] The Brady Bunch Movie ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read) · lineage · Simmons traces a mid-90s wave of 70s nostalgia (Brady Bunch movies, Reality Bites) that led to harder looks like Ice Storm. · "They make the Brady Bunch movie, which is a parody of the Brady Bunch."
  32. [The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:20:50 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Koppelman names Wolf as the other movie he has watched most, for the psychology of its people. · "Wolf of Wall Street's the other movie I've probably watched the most"
  33. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:37:01 · unknown (0.30)] Dream Story (Traumnovelle, the Schnitzler novella) ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read) · lineage · The speakers note the film's credit says inspired by, not adapted from, Schnitzler's novella. · "It's not adapted from Schnitzler."
  34. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:13:48 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Ice Storm ↔ Nixon · lineage · Simmons says the nostalgia turned to re-examination in the mid-90s, citing Oliver Stone's Nixon. · "So mid 90s, it starts to be like, hmm."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

  1. [speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
  2. [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
  3. [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
  4. [speaker] Brian Koppelman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Loves craft: Chandor's economy, not speaking down, and actors like Tucci and Hoffman. Sucker for heightened workplace dialogue and one-night structures. · stances: Margin Call is among the 10 best of 15 years; Hanks does not play sleaze; Conflict structure over a night is the point
  5. [speaker] Brian Raftery · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Loves slow-burn tension and scenes built on dialogue, naming the Ellis kitchen scene the best of the 2000s. Is drawn to films that capture their national moment. Has little patience for the word classic, and dry humor about presidents and haircuts. · stances: No Country for Old Men is about inevitability and powerlessness; Its 2007 release resonated with Bush-era anxiety; W. was undone by timing, not quality; Stone's late-2000s movies are best read through the decade's politics
  6. [speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4

The shows' running bits (2)

  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] 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 Michael Clayton (2007) 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 Michael Clayton (2007) 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 · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:23:21 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ Michael Clayton · theme · Simmons groups Margin Call with Michael Clayton, Shattered Glass and Moneyball as modern office thrillers. · "It's like an office thriller, almost."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:25:22 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Michael Clayton · theme · Both open on a protagonist already broken by past failure. · "It's the Michael Clayton thing I love of like, you start this movie with a character"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 1:17:48 · unknown (0.30)] Michael Clayton ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · theme · Bill Harford is called in like the Michael Clayton of physicians to clean up rich people's messes. · "the Michael Clayton of physicians to clean up rich people's messes."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:26:51 · Brian Koppelman (0.70)] Margin Call ↔ Michael Clayton · contrast · Michael Clayton has murder in it, Margin Call does not. · "Michael Clayton has murder in it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:07:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Ice Storm ↔ Michael Clayton · contrast · Michael Clayton has several standalone scenes you watch when it airs; The Ice Storm must be seen as a whole. · "The ice storm kind of needs to be seen as a total package."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:45:19 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Miller's Crossing ↔ Michael Clayton · contrast · Gabriel Byrne plays an Irish mobster like a Michael Clayton figure. · "stars Gabriel Byrne as like kind of a Michael Clayton, Irish mobster"
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:07:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Michael Clayton ↔ George Clooney · career · Michael Clayton was part of the hosts' recent George Clooney Hall of Fame run. · "Recently when we were doing the George Clooney Hall of Fame, I invited him to watch Michael Clayton with me"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:48:12 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Tom Wilkinson ↔ Michael Clayton · career · Without Rush Hour there is no Michael Clayton. · "You don't get Michael Clayton."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:06:16 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Michael Clayton ↔ George Clooney · people · Clooney plays a lawyer at the end of the Bush years, near broke and compromised. · "Or Michael Clayton, starring George Clooney as a lawyer who, like so many other Americans, has arrived at the end of the bush years feeling near broke, beaten down, and highly compromised."
[pairs] Michael Clayton ↔ Margin Call · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:07:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Michael Clayton · fun · Amanda's husband Zach refuses to rewatch it with her, and instead reenacts it, yelling I am Shiva, the god of death about fourteen times. · "he did yell, I am Shiva, the god of death like 14 times."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:23:57 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · programming · Koppelman's double-feature picks are Wolf of Wall Street or Sweet Smell of Success. · "Either wolf of Wall Street or sweet smell of success."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:57:26 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Tom Cruise ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · programming · If Cruise would answer everything, the Rewatchables pick is Eyes Wide Shut. · "I would do eyes-wise shut."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:45:04 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Chris Ryan ↔ Miller's Crossing · programming · Pick 6 (round 2), category drama: Favorite Coen movie most days; first one he saw. · "Miller's Crossing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:16:06 · Fran Hoepfner (0.40)] The Girl in the Spider's Web ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · lineage · Spider's Web is the reboot after Fincher's film; the speaker finds it ill advised to abandon Mara. · "especially when the thing that everyone liked most about this movie was that performance and how quickly they abandoned it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:50:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Ice Storm ⇒ Swingtown (TV) (the host's read) · programming · Swingtown tried to tap the key party idea but belonged on Cinemax. · "That show has to be on Cinemax."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:02 · Ryen Russillo (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Russillo's double-feature pick. · "Bright lights, big city."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:13:57 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · programming · These two Kubrick films feel warm to the speaker compared with the rest. · "But Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut are the 2 that feel like they sort of cut through to me on a deeper level, where I feel genuine warmth and affection for them."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:45:19 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Dashiell Hammett ⇒ Miller's Crossing (the host's read) · lineage · The film is a take on 1930s-40s fast-talking noir rooted in Hammett. · "unique take on, you know, 1930s and 40s fast talking noir movies, very much rooted in national Hammett"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:49:09 · unknown (0.30)] Stieg Larsson ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read) · lineage · The film is Zaillian's abridged adaptation of Larsson's novel, which loses nothing major. · "I think this is an excellent piece of adaptation that does not really, like, skip anything major."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:09:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Brokeback Mountain ↔ The Ice Storm · programming · Simmons eyes Brokeback Mountain as a contender for Fucked Up Family February 2023. · "Brokeback Mountain is definitely one of the contenders."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:10 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Margin Call ↔ Wall Street · programming · Simmons chooses Wall Street as the best double feature, a fun mix that complements. · "I would go Wall Street."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:24:49 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Babygirl (the host's read) · lineage · The stoned late-night bedroom lecture after the rave echoes Eyes Wide Shut. · "Nice callback to eyes wide shut and lecturing Tom Cruise in the bedroom while stoned out of their minds."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:29:27 · unknown (0.40)] King of New York ↔ Miller's Crossing · theme · 1990 was a year for Irish gangsters across King of New York, State of Grace, and Miller's Crossing. · "An incredible year for Irish gangsters between Chris Walken and King of New York and Miller's Crossing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:54:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read) · lineage · The Fincher film is the American remake of the Swedish original; its director says he was not worried. · "Everyone who loves film will go see the original."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:26:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ The Squid and the Whale · programming · Fennessey says Squid and the Whale was the biggest near-miss for Fucked Up Family February. · "I think was probably the biggest one that could have made it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:21:59 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ⇒ Billions (the maker said so: Koppelman, Billions co-creator, on the show) · lineage · Koppelman says the borrowed lesson is that Margin Call does not speak down to the viewer. · "this movie doesn't speak down to the viewer"
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.85)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) (the host's read) · lineage · Donald Glover's character describes the party as a Spike-directed reboot of Eyes Wide Shut. · "this is like a spikely directed reboot of eyes wide shut"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:02:09 · unknown (host) (0.30)] The Killer ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · craft · The speaker listened to the Dragon Tattoo score while reading the comic because The Killer score was not out. · "it's not out there, so I just listened Dragon Tattoo."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:27:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Next episodes will cover two famous movies; Ryan and Simmons tease Pulp Fiction. · "I've been watching a lot of pulp fiction lately."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Margin Call is in the finance-movie family that Wolf is the mothership of. · "This is, you know, the mothership."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:04 · unknown (0.30)] Kirk Douglas ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the maker said so) · lineage · Kirk Douglas claims he handed Kubrick the novella during their Paths of Glory or Spartacus fights. · "Kirk Douglas claims he gave it to him during one of their like shared therapy sessions"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:52:03 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · craft · The Swedish version is a near one-to-one transposition with no act structure; Fincher's feels dramatic. · "the Swedish one is almost so one-to-one that it has no ax structure."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 1:07:49 · unknown (0.40)] Swingtown (TV) ↔ The Ice Storm · programming · CBS's Swingtown was a third of the way to interesting and watered the key-party era down. · "Wasn't that good, but it was sort of like a 3rd of the way to being interesting."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:09:43 · Brian Koppelman (0.65)] Oliver Stone ⇒ Margin Call (the maker said so: Brian speaking about his own writing) · lineage · Oliver Stone is as big an influence on Brian's dialogue as anybody but Mamet. · "Oliver Stone's big an influence on the way that I write dialogue as anybody but Mammoth."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:21 · unknown (0.30)] Ruth Sobotka → Eyes Wide Shut · lineage · Others guess Kubrick's Austrian second wife may have given him the Austrian novel. · "Maybe she gave it to him."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:11:05 · unknown (0.30)] Sven Nykvist ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the maker said so) · craft · Someone on the shoot (Fincher, or the DP by the garbled name) wanted a Sven Nykvist look: warm fires, cold rooms. · "I wanted to do a whole Sven Nikfist thing"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:08:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Rick Moody's novel ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read) · lineage · Based on Rick Moody's 1994 book; the author cried at the end of a cut and said they got it. · "It's based on Rick Moody's 1994 book, who saw a cut of it and cried at the end and was like, my God, they got it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:02:53 · Ryen Russillo (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ Liar's Poker · theme · Russillo links the movie's no-one-knows-what's-going-on feeling to Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker. · "I always think of that liar's poker effect from Michael Lewis"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:31 · unknown (0.30)] Arthur Schnitzler ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says the novel is very close to the film, so close that its plot beats are nearly one to one. · "And it is very similar to eyes wide shut."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:11:51 · unknown (0.30)] Lola Visual Effects ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · craft · Lola tracked a hair gap into reshot footage. · "So Lola, the special effects house, who's like one of the best, they do like all the de-aging, they're like top level."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:12:44 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] The Brady Bunch Movie ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read) · lineage · Simmons traces a mid-90s wave of 70s nostalgia (Brady Bunch movies, Reality Bites) that led to harder looks like Ice Storm. · "They make the Brady Bunch movie, which is a parody of the Brady Bunch."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:20:50 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Koppelman names Wolf as the other movie he has watched most, for the psychology of its people. · "Wolf of Wall Street's the other movie I've probably watched the most"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:37:01 · unknown (0.30)] Dream Story (Traumnovelle, the Schnitzler novella) ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read) · lineage · The speakers note the film's credit says inspired by, not adapted from, Schnitzler's novella. · "It's not adapted from Schnitzler."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:13:48 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Ice Storm ↔ Nixon · lineage · Simmons says the nostalgia turned to re-examination in the mid-90s, citing Oliver Stone's Nixon. · "So mid 90s, it starts to be like, hmm."
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[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] 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] Brian Koppelman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Loves craft: Chandor's economy, not speaking down, and actors like Tucci and Hoffman. Sucker for heightened workplace dialogue and one-night structures. · stances: Margin Call is among the 10 best of 15 years; Hanks does not play sleaze; Conflict structure over a night is the point
[speaker] Brian Raftery · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Loves slow-burn tension and scenes built on dialogue, naming the Ellis kitchen scene the best of the 2000s. Is drawn to films that capture their national moment. Has little patience for the word classic, and dry humor about presidents and haircuts. · stances: No Country for Old Men is about inevitability and powerlessness; Its 2007 release resonated with Bush-era anxiety; W. was undone by timing, not quality; Stone's late-2000s movies are best read through the decade's politics
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[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] 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 Michael Clayton (2007); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Michael Clayton (2007) 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.