What the corpus says about Sorcerer (1977)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Sorcerer (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 Sorcerer (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 · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:32:51 · unknown (0.40)] Sorcerer ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · They will do Sorcerer one day. · "Source will probably do one day."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 0:38:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Sorcerer ↔ Nightmare Alley · lineage · Both are remakes of films from earlier decades. · "Also a remake of a film from the 40s and 50s."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:33:25 · unknown (0.40)] Sorcerer ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · contrast · Sorcerer, The Abyss and The Thing feel as difficult as they were to make; Raiders feels light despite a brutal shoot. · "It is wild to me that Raiders in particular does not have that kind of weight to it."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 0:38:05 · Patton Oswalt (0.70)] Nightmare Alley ↔ Sorcerer · industry · Both bombed on release, Sorcerer under the summer of Star Wars, and Nightmare Alley will be reassessed the same way. · "So this is going to be one of those movies that will be reassessed, I think, in the exact same way."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 0:41:33 · Tim Simons (0.50)] Sorcerer ↔ William Friedkin · color fix · If Friedkin were alive and the technology could restore the red-shifted print to the other reels' look, the speaker would be fine with it. · "I think I would be okay with that because if it is like, oh, this is because of the degradation"
[pairs] Sorcerer ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Sorcerer ↔ Nightmare Alley · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 0:40:33 · Tim Simons (0.55)] Sorcerer · fun · Saw Sorcerer four or five times in a year, one a red-shifted print at the New Beverly. · "4 or 5 times this past year"
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 0:27:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Nightmare Alley ↔ A Face in the Crowd · programming · Pairing them would nail the American sickness of the con man and his admirers. · "this movie and a face in the crowd would be an amazing double feature for nailing exactly what's wrong."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:14:54 · unknown (0.40)] Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · They devoted a whole episode to Crystal Skull. · "We devoted whole episode to it."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 0:03:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.95)] Nightmare Alley ⇒ Nightmare Alley (the host's read) · lineage · The 1947 film is a neutered version given 1940s moviemaking; the new one is bigger, bolder and better. · "It's an interesting movie, a neutered version of the story, I would say, given the circumstances of movie making back in the 40s."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:34:57 · unknown (0.40)] Hook ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · Hook is a movie they will cover and a defender will join that episode. · "We will have a defender on the episode."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 0:39:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Ron Perlman ⇒ Nightmare Alley (the host's read) · lineage · Perlman reportedly put the Gresham book in Del Toro's hands in the mid 90s, so he is why the film exists. · "he's the person, I believe, who, uh, who put the book in Del Toro's hands, I think in the mid 90s."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:01:39 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Jaws · programming · Bendis lives in Portland, where Raiders and Jaws play theaters every summer; his kids found both still work. · "I'm here in Portland where Raiders and Jaws plays on theaters, at least once a summer."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 0:57:21 · Patton Oswalt (0.85)] Bad Day at Black Rock ↔ Nightmare Alley · theme · A technicolor noir whose small-town resentment of a veteran is read as very Trump-like, echoing the Trump-as-carnival reading of the new film. · "I mean, that is very much a Trump or movie, these, um, people that, uh, are resenting the, the Japanese guy"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:27:19 · unknown (0.40)] E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · Next week's episode is E.T.; next the Patreon bonus covers Something Evil and Savage. · "I believe it's a movie called ET the Extra Terrestrial."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:12:58 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · lineage · Bendis says his childhood pop culture was Lucas and Spielberg magic tricks, not Marvel. · "At this stage that wasn't Marvel was Lucas and Spielberg."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:46:47 · unknown (0.40)] Flash Gordon (Republic serial) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · lineage · Lucas conceived Indiana Jones as a B-picture at A-picture scale, like the old Republic serials. · "let's make a sort of B picture at an A picture scale, right?"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:49:39 · unknown (0.40)] James Bond films (the franchise) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the maker said so: Spielberg's account of the Hawaii conversation with Lucas) · lineage · Lucas pitched Raiders to Spielberg as a better, American take on the Bond idea Spielberg had been wanting to do. · "I have the I have the same basic idea, but better, and it's this Raiders of the Lost Ark idea."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:55:15 · unknown (0.40)] Nevada Smith ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · lineage · The hero was Indiana Smith until Nevada Smith made Spielberg object, so he became Indiana Jones. · "there's a Steve McQueen movie called Nevada Smith."
[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] Patton Oswalt · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · Watches The Killing repeatedly, loves noir and character actors, Timothy Carey stories, Matthau in Pelham 123, Albert Brooks and Adam Sandler's dramatic work, Shudder and the Corman-style ecosystem. Hates the method and the auteur theory. · stances: The method and the auteur theory both get in the way of the work; The Killing's characters are small-time crooks who aren't smart enough; Titles do real work, the killing is a double meaning; Genre outsiders like Shudder directors will be the next filmmakers
[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
[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)

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 Sorcerer (1977); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Sorcerer (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.