What the corpus says about Thief (1981)

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)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ Heat · programming · Rewatchable does Mann films: five done, others remaining. · "How many Michael Mann movies have we done now?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Public Enemies · programming · Remaining Mann candidates for future episodes. · "We got do, we got Manhunter, Black Hat, and Public Enemies left, I think."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:02:54 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the host's read) · lineage · Thief is the notebook sketch for Mann's later work, with Heat sharing DNA. · "the building blocks for what you wind up seeing in heat and collateral and Miami Vice in so many of his films to come."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:08:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Thief ↔ Blade Runner · lineage · Thief and Blade Runner mark a new era: neo-noir lone heroes in dystopian landscapes. · "Blade Runner also just feels like a new era."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:11:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Rififi ⇒ Thief (the host's read) · lineage · Thief draws on Bogart movies, Rififi, samurai movies, French New Wave. · "in thief, you can feel Humphrey Bogart movies, you can feel, Rafifi, you can feel samurai movies, you can feel French new wave."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:15:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the maker said so: the Siegel piece, Caan telling Pacino) · lineage · Caan said scenes cut from Thief went to Heat. · "All the scenes that weren't used in our picture came over to you guys."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:06:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Escape from New York · theme · 1981 produced films that couldn't be made now. · "I wrote down 8 movies that I just don't think would ever happen now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:13:50 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Heat · theme · Prison as a purifying origin recurs in Heat's crew. · "All the, all the guys in, in, uh, in Neil's crew are like from, from our jail buddies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:34:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Heat · theme · The first date in Thief rhymes with Neil and Eady's meeting in Heat. · "the Edie and Neil date is like something out of Nancy Myers movie compared to this date."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:44:28 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Thief ↔ Miami Vice · theme · Same send-the-wife-away beat in Miami Vice's Calderon's revenge. · "Miami Vice, which I think he had a pretty big imprint on season one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:44:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief ↔ Heat · theme · The wife who must be sent packing recurs in Mann films. · "Michael Mann has this movie where he has to send the wife packing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:08:05 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Blues Brothers ↔ Thief · theme · Joliet prison appears in Blues Brothers and then Thief. · "because you have Blues Brothers, and you and next year, Thief, with Willie Nelson shooting"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:33:01 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Thief ↔ The Insider · craft · The feeling-out scene between two good actors is a Mann staple, with Thief's the best. · "Crosby and Khan and Thief is the best one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:09:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief ↔ Blade Runner · craft · Both films mark a new era partly through their synth scores: Mann used Tangerine Dream, Scott used Vangelis. · "Ridley Scott uses Vangelis, Michael Mann uses Tangerine Dream, like these, the, it sounds different."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:20:32 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Boogie Nights · craft · Caan's collapse-into-tears move recalls Wahlberg breaking down in Boogie Nights. · "Wahlberg and Boogie Nights, like when he breaks down in the bedroom with his mom."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:36:13 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the host's read) · craft · The diner scene's wide shot echoes Heat's, which never shows both guys. · "Wide shot, some heat DNA, although in heat, they don't have, you never see the 2 guys"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:40:36 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read) · craft · Fincher may have watched Thief before Panic Room. · "Fincher does panic room and he probably saw Thief like 2 weeks before he started filming"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:57:36 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Thief ⇒ Collateral (the host's read) · craft · Mann later circled back to blues in Collateral after trying all-blues for Thief. · "but then circled back in collateral"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:03:18 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Taxi Driver ⇒ Thief (the host's read) · craft · Scorsese used wet streets in Taxi Driver before Mann made it a signature. · "Scorsese did a little bit in taxi driver"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:11:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Manhunter (the host's read) · craft · Thief's final shootout is a dry run for Manhunter's. · "That whole shootout is very reminiscent of the shootout at the end of Manhunter"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:09:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Thief ↔ Blade Runner · contrast · Blade Runner is inscrutable and picked over; Thief is straightforward. · "Whereas Thief is much more straightforward, but, you know, Ridley Scott uses Vangelis, Michael Mann uses Tangerine Dream"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:25:30 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ The Godfather · contrast · 1981 compared with the Oscar crowd: Thief shut out. · "So thief got shut out in the Oscars."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:15:21 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ↔ Heat · contrast · Thief is a man alone; Heat is a showdown. · "thief is about a man alone and heat is a showdown movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:52:14 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Thief ↔ Heat · contrast · Thief's characters are still figuring out their lives, unlike the end-of-the-road Pacino and Venora of Heat. · "It's like much different than like Diane Venora, Al Pacino, and he."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:11:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Hard Eight · career · Both are first features with patience and ambition. · "Hard 8's another one with P.T. Anderson, that that, you know, that movie has some flaws"

Films put beside it more than once (5)

[pairs] Thief ↔ Heat · said 10 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Thief ↔ Blade Runner · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Thief ↔ The Godfather · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Thief ↔ Ferrari · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Thief ↔ The Jericho Mile · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:25:46 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief · fun · Ebert gave 3.5 stars and called it intelligent. · "one of the most intelligent thrillers I've ever seen."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:33:04 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Thief · fun · Diner monologue is the reason for the episode and the best Caan moment. · "Next scene, the diner monologue, which is the reason we're doing this podcast"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:33:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief · fun · Howard Johnson's diner scene as first date. · "is my favorite 1st date in movie history."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:46:39 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief · fun · Mann insisted characters never use contractions. · "Belushi and he was talking about how man was very insistent that these guys never speak in contractions"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:49:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief · fun · Frank's collage as Pinterest, with an NFT joke. · "So does Michael Mann know that he invented Pinterest?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:54:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief · fun · Razzie nomination for worst score. · "The film was nominated for a Razzy Award for worst musical score."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (17)

[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:13:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Heat ↔ The Rewatchables · programming · Chris listened to the Reheat Rewatchables episode, celebrating 100 episodes, the morning of recording. · "I also listened to the reheat this morning"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:08:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Father of the Bride ↔ Blade Runner · lineage · A 1991 remake of a 1950 film is like remaking Blade Runner now, 40 years on. · "think about movies in 1982 now that that would be the 40 year mark where it would be like if they were remaking Blade Runner"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:37:27 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ The Martian · programming · Ferrari feels like a late-summer release that should have had The Martian's slot, not Christmas. · "This felt like it should have had the Martian spot."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 1:12:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Frank Sinatra → The Godfather · lineage · Sinatra was mad because Johnny Fontane resembled him and the From Here to Eternity role; Sean denies Fontane is a Sinatra replica. · "Johnny Fontaine is not a replica of Frank Sinatra."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:07:39 · Garrett Bradley (0.90)] Heat ↔ Time · programming · Bradley's last great thing was rewatching Heat, which prompted talk of the 90s. · "I rewatched Heat"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:16:00 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ↔ Blade Runner · theme · Wants a third Alien 3 cut that meets in the middle, Blade Runner Final Cut style. · "I almost want a Blade Runner style final cut thing where it's like, now we need a 3rd cut that meets in the middle."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:05:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Brock Yates ⇒ Ferrari (the host's read) · lineage · Ferrari adapts the Brock Yates book on Enzo Ferrari. · "by Brock Yates"
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:31:25 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ The Godfather · theme · Reese Bobby is like Vito Corleone, a godfather figure who is in little of the movie but too important for the Dion Waiters award. · "it's like in the Godfather, you know, Vito Corleone is not in the movie that much, but he can't be Dion Waiters."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:22 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Heat · lineage · Heat is described as the urban version of Last of the Mohicans, a step in Mann's progression toward The Insider. · "Then you've got heat, which in some ways is the urban version of Last of the Mohicans."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Blade Runner · theme · Franchises like Alien and Blade Runner predict a first generation of androids that does horrid things and gets scaled back. · "very much like in this franchise and Blade Runner"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:10:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferrari ↔ Heat · theme · Ferrari carries Mann's themes of men pushing themselves to greatness with their obsessions. · "men pushing themselves as hard as they can with the tools that they are obsessed with to achieve greatness"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:20:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Godfather · theme · Sonny is said to be more like Vito than Sonny Corleone: guns bring heat, so keep them out of the neighborhood. · "I think Sunny is more like Vito Corleone than he is like Sonny Corleone"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Seven ↔ Heat · lineage · Grouped with Usual Suspects, Heat and Casino as the four defining 1995 movies, three of which were shut out at the Oscars. · "Our usual suspects, which we recently did, Heat Casino in seven."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Blade Runner ↔ Goodfellas · craft · Listener contrasts bad narration crutched in original Blade Runner with narration that makes Goodfellas. · "It was so bad in the original Blade Runner."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:17:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Michael Mann ↔ Ferrari · theme · Enzo Ferrari, with his department heads and team who report to him, reads as a stand-in for Michael Mann the filmmaker. · "Enzo Ferrari is Michael Mann."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:41:50 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Godfather · theme · The 'thunderbolt' moment of instant love appears in Michael and Apollonia, in Goodfellas, and in this film's Jane. · "the best ones, Michael Corleone with Apollonia"
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:06:53 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Heat ⇒ Ambulance (the host's read) · lineage · Chris says the first half of Ambulance is Michael Bay trying to make Heat, before the second half becomes a great chase movie. · "The 1st half of this movie is basically like Michael Bay being like, I want to make heat."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[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] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[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

The shows' running bits (2)

[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)

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 Thief (1981) 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 Thief (1981) 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 · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ Heat · programming · Rewatchable does Mann films: five done, others remaining. · "How many Michael Mann movies have we done now?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Public Enemies · programming · Remaining Mann candidates for future episodes. · "We got do, we got Manhunter, Black Hat, and Public Enemies left, I think."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:02:54 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the host's read) · lineage · Thief is the notebook sketch for Mann's later work, with Heat sharing DNA. · "the building blocks for what you wind up seeing in heat and collateral and Miami Vice in so many of his films to come."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:08:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Thief ↔ Blade Runner · lineage · Thief and Blade Runner mark a new era: neo-noir lone heroes in dystopian landscapes. · "Blade Runner also just feels like a new era."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:11:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Rififi ⇒ Thief (the host's read) · lineage · Thief draws on Bogart movies, Rififi, samurai movies, French New Wave. · "in thief, you can feel Humphrey Bogart movies, you can feel, Rafifi, you can feel samurai movies, you can feel French new wave."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:15:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the maker said so: the Siegel piece, Caan telling Pacino) · lineage · Caan said scenes cut from Thief went to Heat. · "All the scenes that weren't used in our picture came over to you guys."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:06:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Escape from New York · theme · 1981 produced films that couldn't be made now. · "I wrote down 8 movies that I just don't think would ever happen now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:13:50 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Heat · theme · Prison as a purifying origin recurs in Heat's crew. · "All the, all the guys in, in, uh, in Neil's crew are like from, from our jail buddies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:34:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Heat · theme · The first date in Thief rhymes with Neil and Eady's meeting in Heat. · "the Edie and Neil date is like something out of Nancy Myers movie compared to this date."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:44:28 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Thief ↔ Miami Vice · theme · Same send-the-wife-away beat in Miami Vice's Calderon's revenge. · "Miami Vice, which I think he had a pretty big imprint on season one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:44:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief ↔ Heat · theme · The wife who must be sent packing recurs in Mann films. · "Michael Mann has this movie where he has to send the wife packing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:08:05 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Blues Brothers ↔ Thief · theme · Joliet prison appears in Blues Brothers and then Thief. · "because you have Blues Brothers, and you and next year, Thief, with Willie Nelson shooting"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:33:01 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Thief ↔ The Insider · craft · The feeling-out scene between two good actors is a Mann staple, with Thief's the best. · "Crosby and Khan and Thief is the best one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:09:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief ↔ Blade Runner · craft · Both films mark a new era partly through their synth scores: Mann used Tangerine Dream, Scott used Vangelis. · "Ridley Scott uses Vangelis, Michael Mann uses Tangerine Dream, like these, the, it sounds different."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:20:32 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Boogie Nights · craft · Caan's collapse-into-tears move recalls Wahlberg breaking down in Boogie Nights. · "Wahlberg and Boogie Nights, like when he breaks down in the bedroom with his mom."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:36:13 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the host's read) · craft · The diner scene's wide shot echoes Heat's, which never shows both guys. · "Wide shot, some heat DNA, although in heat, they don't have, you never see the 2 guys"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:40:36 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read) · craft · Fincher may have watched Thief before Panic Room. · "Fincher does panic room and he probably saw Thief like 2 weeks before he started filming"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:57:36 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Thief ⇒ Collateral (the host's read) · craft · Mann later circled back to blues in Collateral after trying all-blues for Thief. · "but then circled back in collateral"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:03:18 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Taxi Driver ⇒ Thief (the host's read) · craft · Scorsese used wet streets in Taxi Driver before Mann made it a signature. · "Scorsese did a little bit in taxi driver"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:11:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Manhunter (the host's read) · craft · Thief's final shootout is a dry run for Manhunter's. · "That whole shootout is very reminiscent of the shootout at the end of Manhunter"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:09:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Thief ↔ Blade Runner · contrast · Blade Runner is inscrutable and picked over; Thief is straightforward. · "Whereas Thief is much more straightforward, but, you know, Ridley Scott uses Vangelis, Michael Mann uses Tangerine Dream"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:25:30 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ The Godfather · contrast · 1981 compared with the Oscar crowd: Thief shut out. · "So thief got shut out in the Oscars."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:15:21 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ↔ Heat · contrast · Thief is a man alone; Heat is a showdown. · "thief is about a man alone and heat is a showdown movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:52:14 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Thief ↔ Heat · contrast · Thief's characters are still figuring out their lives, unlike the end-of-the-road Pacino and Venora of Heat. · "It's like much different than like Diane Venora, Al Pacino, and he."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:11:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Hard Eight · career · Both are first features with patience and ambition. · "Hard 8's another one with P.T. Anderson, that that, you know, that movie has some flaws"
[pairs] Thief ↔ Heat · said 10 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Thief ↔ Blade Runner · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Thief ↔ The Godfather · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Thief ↔ Ferrari · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Thief ↔ The Jericho Mile · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:25:46 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief · fun · Ebert gave 3.5 stars and called it intelligent. · "one of the most intelligent thrillers I've ever seen."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:33:04 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Thief · fun · Diner monologue is the reason for the episode and the best Caan moment. · "Next scene, the diner monologue, which is the reason we're doing this podcast"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:33:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief · fun · Howard Johnson's diner scene as first date. · "is my favorite 1st date in movie history."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:46:39 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief · fun · Mann insisted characters never use contractions. · "Belushi and he was talking about how man was very insistent that these guys never speak in contractions"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:49:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief · fun · Frank's collage as Pinterest, with an NFT joke. · "So does Michael Mann know that he invented Pinterest?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:54:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief · fun · Razzie nomination for worst score. · "The film was nominated for a Razzy Award for worst musical score."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:13:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Heat ↔ The Rewatchables · programming · Chris listened to the Reheat Rewatchables episode, celebrating 100 episodes, the morning of recording. · "I also listened to the reheat this morning"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:08:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Father of the Bride ↔ Blade Runner · lineage · A 1991 remake of a 1950 film is like remaking Blade Runner now, 40 years on. · "think about movies in 1982 now that that would be the 40 year mark where it would be like if they were remaking Blade Runner"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:37:27 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ The Martian · programming · Ferrari feels like a late-summer release that should have had The Martian's slot, not Christmas. · "This felt like it should have had the Martian spot."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 1:12:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Frank Sinatra → The Godfather · lineage · Sinatra was mad because Johnny Fontane resembled him and the From Here to Eternity role; Sean denies Fontane is a Sinatra replica. · "Johnny Fontaine is not a replica of Frank Sinatra."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:07:39 · Garrett Bradley (0.90)] Heat ↔ Time · programming · Bradley's last great thing was rewatching Heat, which prompted talk of the 90s. · "I rewatched Heat"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:16:00 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ↔ Blade Runner · theme · Wants a third Alien 3 cut that meets in the middle, Blade Runner Final Cut style. · "I almost want a Blade Runner style final cut thing where it's like, now we need a 3rd cut that meets in the middle."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:05:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Brock Yates ⇒ Ferrari (the host's read) · lineage · Ferrari adapts the Brock Yates book on Enzo Ferrari. · "by Brock Yates"
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:31:25 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ The Godfather · theme · Reese Bobby is like Vito Corleone, a godfather figure who is in little of the movie but too important for the Dion Waiters award. · "it's like in the Godfather, you know, Vito Corleone is not in the movie that much, but he can't be Dion Waiters."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:22 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Heat · lineage · Heat is described as the urban version of Last of the Mohicans, a step in Mann's progression toward The Insider. · "Then you've got heat, which in some ways is the urban version of Last of the Mohicans."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Blade Runner · theme · Franchises like Alien and Blade Runner predict a first generation of androids that does horrid things and gets scaled back. · "very much like in this franchise and Blade Runner"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:10:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferrari ↔ Heat · theme · Ferrari carries Mann's themes of men pushing themselves to greatness with their obsessions. · "men pushing themselves as hard as they can with the tools that they are obsessed with to achieve greatness"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:20:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Godfather · theme · Sonny is said to be more like Vito than Sonny Corleone: guns bring heat, so keep them out of the neighborhood. · "I think Sunny is more like Vito Corleone than he is like Sonny Corleone"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Seven ↔ Heat · lineage · Grouped with Usual Suspects, Heat and Casino as the four defining 1995 movies, three of which were shut out at the Oscars. · "Our usual suspects, which we recently did, Heat Casino in seven."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Blade Runner ↔ Goodfellas · craft · Listener contrasts bad narration crutched in original Blade Runner with narration that makes Goodfellas. · "It was so bad in the original Blade Runner."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:17:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Michael Mann ↔ Ferrari · theme · Enzo Ferrari, with his department heads and team who report to him, reads as a stand-in for Michael Mann the filmmaker. · "Enzo Ferrari is Michael Mann."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:41:50 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Godfather · theme · The 'thunderbolt' moment of instant love appears in Michael and Apollonia, in Goodfellas, and in this film's Jane. · "the best ones, Michael Corleone with Apollonia"
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:06:53 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Heat ⇒ Ambulance (the host's read) · lineage · Chris says the first half of Ambulance is Michael Bay trying to make Heat, before the second half becomes a great chase movie. · "The 1st half of this movie is basically like Michael Bay being like, I want to make heat."
[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] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[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
[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 Thief (1981); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Thief (1981) 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.