What the corpus says about Miller's Crossing (1990)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Miller's Crossing (1990) 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 Miller's Crossing (1990) 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 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."
[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 · Physical Media Strikes Back · 0:34:17 · Tim Simons (0.50)] Miller's Crossing ↔ The Abyss · bad 4K grade · Miller's Crossing (Criterion) looks too green, as the James Cameron 4Ks (True Lies, The Abyss) look wrong to many. · "which is very green in the print, and looks wrong."
[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."
[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"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:23:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Steve Buscemi ↔ Miller's Crossing · career · Buscemi was known from Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink and Billy Bathgate before blossoming here. · "he was that guy who was in Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink and Billy Bathgate."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:45:06 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Miller's Crossing ↔ Joel and Ethan Coen · career · Chris rates it his favorite Coen brothers movie on four days of the week. · "4 out of 7 days of the week, my favorite Cohen brother movie"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:45:45 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Marcia Gay Harden ↔ Miller's Crossing · career · A star-making performance, alongside early Buscemi. · "incredible Marcia Gay Harden performance, like a star making tuturo performance, really great early Bushemi"
[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:56:31 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Steve Buscemi ↔ Miller's Crossing · people · Buscemi was hired in Miller's Crossing as someone who can read dialogue fast, and the Coens wrote Fargo's Carl for him. · "Miller's Crossing is literally hired because they need a motor mouth."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:46:03 · unknown (0.40)] Carter Burwell ↔ Miller's Crossing · people · Burwell scored Miller's Crossing, called a beautiful score. · "One of those beautiful scores."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:20:34 · unknown (0.30)] John Turturro ↔ Miller's Crossing · type memory · His Fearless role coasts on the suspicious-rat look from Miller's Crossing. · "Is this guy a fucking rat?"
[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:50:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Peter Stormare ↔ Miller's Crossing · wanted earlier · The Coens wanted Stormare in Miller's Crossing. · "Stormair, they wanted in Miller's Crossing?"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:44:49 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Miller's Crossing · fun · Chris recently began a physical media collection, and Miller's Crossing was the first pickup he wanted. · "I recently began my own physical media collection."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 0:34:17 · Tim Simons (0.50)] Miller's Crossing · fun · Criterion 4K of Miller's Crossing looks very green and wrong compared to what the speaker grew up with. · "which is very green in the print, and looks wrong."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:06:44 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Chris Ryan ↔ King of New York · programming · Pick 13 (round 5), category action/horror/thriller: Peak Ferrara, Walken, killer ensemble. · "I will take it as a throw."
[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."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:07:25 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] King of New York ↔ Quentin Tarantino · programming · The Rewatchables did a King of New York episode with Quentin Tarantino. · "We did a great rewatchables episode about it with Quentin Tarantino about 5 years ago."
[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"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:06:48 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] King of New York ↔ Goodfellas · theme · 1990 was a great year for gangster movies. · "This is a great year for gangster movies"
[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."
[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
[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] Tim Simons · latest sketch, Blank Check · Fearless · Adores Bradley Whitford, Jeff Bridges, and unbridled positivity about moviegoing. Lover of old movies he has not seen yet. Can be contrarian ('movie MAGA mode') about near-consensus films and U2. Moved by performance and craft more than plot. · stances: Fearless is uniformly excellent, the first 30 and last 20 minutes transcendent; Jeff Bridges is peak, subtle and singular; the Fearless ending locks all puzzle pieces; nitpicks consensus classics
[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
[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 Miller's Crossing (1990); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Miller's Crossing (1990) 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.

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