What the corpus says about The Power of the Dog (2021)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Power of the Dog (2021) 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 The Power of the Dog (2021) 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 · An Angel at My Table · 0:58:25 · Dana Stevens (0.50)] An Angel at My Table ↔ The Power of the Dog · craft · Production design is a major part of Campion's project in both, communicating class without exposition. · "in power of the dog, this past year where production design is a huge part of what informs Campion's project."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:59:55 · Dana Stevens (0.50)] An Angel at My Table ↔ The Power of the Dog · narrative strategy · Campion's films hold you without conventional narrative thrust, unlike the ensemble of Power of the Dog, this one is just Janet. · "in power of the dog, it's an ensemble of full characters."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 1:10:46 · Dana Stevens (0.40)] The Power of the Dog ↔ The Lord of the Rings · landscape · New Zealand standing in for Montana looks, if like anything, like Lord of the Rings. · "if it looks like anywhere, it looks like Lord of the Rings landscapes, right?"
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 0:43:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Power of the Dog ↔ The Irishman · Criterion route · Streamer films reach boutique labels: Power of the Dog went to Criterion right away. · "Like the power of the dog going to the criterion collection right away is interesting."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:20:28 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Jane Campion ↔ The Power of the Dog · craft · Campion uses the baggage of her stars cleverly; in The Power of the Dog the miscasting feeling is the point. · "I think it is one of her greatest skills is being really smart about using the baggage of her stars in interesting ways, right?"
[pairs] The Power of the Dog ↔ An Angel at My Table · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:19:54 · David Sims (0.45)] An Angel at My Table ⇒ Barry Jenkins (the host's read) · lineage · Speaker wonders whether Jenkins referenced Angel when making Moonlight. · "I wonder if Barry Jenkins, like references at all in working on Moonlight"
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:25:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] The Irishman ↔ A Star Is Born · programming · Producer Bobby suggests The Irishman is this year's A Star Is Born for the hosts' Oscar obsession. · "perhaps the Irishman is this year's a star is born for us."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:17:10 · David Sims (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ The Lord of the Rings · lineage · The Dark Elf war prologue and design is Lord of the Rings style ancient-story fantasy. · "This is some sort of like Lord of the Rings stuff where it's sort of like, you know, this is an ancient story."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 1:21:11 · David Sims (0.40)] An Angel at My Table ↔ Sweetie · theme · Both films have doofy, non-villainous, two-dimensional men and boys. · "both very good at those sorts of doofy men where they're not even villainous sort of, but they're just sort of like painfully, uh, awkward"
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:27:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Irishman ↔ Netflix · programming · Sean assumes the Irishman has a contractual theatrical release while the other Netflix films might not. · "I assume the Irishman has something contractually that says they'll do that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 1:27:57 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ The Lord of the Rings · theme · Cullens don't sleep, like elves in Lord of the Rings. · "They are, they are like elves in Lord of the Rings or whatever."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:16:07 · Dana Stevens (0.90)] An Angel at My Table ↔ Picnic at Hanging Rock · craft · The gauzy distance, fades to black and mystery of the childhood chapter recall Picnic at Hanging Rock. · "Peter Weir's picnic and Hanging Rock, which I think this movie has something in common with"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:37:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Irishman · theme · De Niro's refusal to intellectualize acting is tied to his Irishman interviews where he just goes in on Trump. · "he'll be like an actor's round table for the Irishman"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:38:46 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ The Lord of the Rings · craft · New Zealand locations can't replicate what Peter Jackson did with it in Lord of the Rings, but still look like a newer earth. · "you can never replicate the total stunning magic trick of Peter Jackson, like deploying it in Lord of the Rings"
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:19:54 · David Sims (0.45)] An Angel at My Table ↔ Moonlight · craft · Three-actor, three-part handoff with continuity of performance; Moonlight also made on a compressed schedule. · "there's a similar sort of handoff quality to it and a continuity of performance"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:41:43 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker ↔ The Irishman · craft · Rise of Skywalker had to de-age Ian McDiarmid the way The Irishman did. · "For Rise of Skywalker, they had to de-age him Irishman style."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:09:40 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ The Lord of the Rings · craft · The ether lodging in Jane and slowly corrupting her is like the One Ring and Frodo. · "It's sort of almost the like the ring for Frodo-esque."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:52:10 · Dana Stevens (0.35)] Annie ↔ An Angel at My Table · craft · Janet Frame, in her red cardigan and curly red hair, looks like Annie, which makes viewers root for her. · "she kind of looks like Australian little orphan Annie."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:56:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] An Angel at My Table ↔ Sweetie · craft · Sweetie's saturated children's-film look survives in Angel only in the Janet character's costume and hair. · "it's like an adult film that has the aesthetics of a children's film."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 1:01:31 · unknown (0.30)] An Angel at My Table ↔ Two Friends · craft · Speaker notes Campion films that do not operate like normal narratives, citing a backward-narrative film (transcribed 'Two friends'). · "Two friends has this weird backward narrative?"
[speaker] Dana Stevens · latest sketch, Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · Loves Campion's evocative, elusive style and the film as a coming-of-age story about an artist; says she maybe loves Bright Star slightly more. Distrusts crude biopic cliches and Cuckoo's Nest. Dislikes the piano score's imposing clang. A sucker for production design, performance continuity, and mystery. · stances: Angel is one of the best coming-of-age movies about an artist; Angel and Bright Star are two of the best literary biopics; Criticized The Piano's score; Prefers mysteries that remain unexplained
[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)
[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 The Power of the Dog (2021); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Power of the Dog (2021) 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.