What the corpus says about Vincent & Theo (1990)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Vincent & Theo (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 Vincent & Theo (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 Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:41:41 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] Tanner '88 ↔ Vincent & Theo · industry · Both made for TV and little seen at the time, now praised 30 years later; Underground Railroad may follow the same path. · "We talked about 10 or 88, and we talked about Vincent and Theo, both of which were made for TV"
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:28:53 · Wesley Morris (0.80)] Robert Altman ↔ Vincent & Theo · career · Wesley says Vincent & Theo got critics paying attention again and set the table for The Player. · "it sets the table for some kind of, um, you know, thunder striking from a god on high when you get to the player."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:16:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Tanner '88 ⇒ Robert Altman (the host's read) · lineage · Tanner '88 is where Altman found the satirical tone he carried into The Player, using politics as the way into mocking egomaniacs. · "that's where he figures out this satirical tone that he's then going to follow into the player."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:16:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Tanner '88 ⇒ The Larry Sanders Show (the host's read) · lineage · Bill calls Tanner '88 ground zero for the mockumentary with cameos, thrown into a real world. · "that is kind of ground 0 for that mockumentary."
[speaker] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito
[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 Vincent & Theo (1990); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Vincent & Theo (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.

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.